I am confused about the "banning" of legitimate, tax paying and regulated private businesses! 
I thought the voters in Alaska and in local areas voted to approve the legal sale . Now a small but loud group of self-righteous people want to stop folks who have invested in starting up new businesses that are cleaner then bars.
I don't smoke the stuff, but I think if the voters passed the law to allow it why are these other people wanting to shut them down ? Maybe they aren't self-righteous after all, maybe they have a hidden agenda and a buck to make if it goes back to being a "black market" business?
I live in Ketchikan where there are currently two retail stores operating in the downtown area. The crime rate hasn't gone up in their area and no other businesses have shut down because of them.
What I would like to see is the retail places to have a place where their customers can smoke it on the premises because I do NOT like walking through clouds of smoke left by cruise ship passengers.