Two Things Worth Watching at the Marijuana Board

Alaska's Marijuana Control Board meets June 24–25 in Fairbanks, with two items worth watching past the routine enforcement docket.

The board will decide whether to approve Trevor Haynes taking controlling interest in Good Cannabis, a four-license operation spanning a Fairbanks retail store, cultivation and manufacturing on Frank Avenue, and a retail shop in McCarthy. One of the licenses carries prior violations the board has to weigh before signing off.

Time permitting, the board may also take up a grievance that keeps resurfacing: licensed growers argue that hemp-derived THC products undercut them on price while escaping the taxes and lab-testing that regulated marijuana businesses must pay for. That fight — regulated cannabis versus an untaxed competitor — is the one with real stakes for Alaska's struggling growers, even if it gets only a few minutes this week.