{"id":8299,"date":"2018-05-27T03:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2018-05-27T03:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:30:22","slug":"alaska-police-chief-named-to-marijuana-control-board-war-on-weed-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/alaska-police-chief-named-to-marijuana-control-board-war-on-weed-a-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Police Chief Named To Marijuana Control Board: War On Weed A \u2018Waste Of Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/alaska-police-chief-named-to-marijuana-control-board-war-on-weed-a-waste-of-time\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>The police chief recently named to the board that regulates Alaska&#8217;s legal marijuana industry says the fight that has long been waged against pot in this country has been a &#8220;waste of time&#8221; and law enforcement resources.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Ankerfelt, who is police chief in the southeast Alaska city of Sitka, says he wants to contribute to the successful implementation of well thought-out industry regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Ankerfelt was appointed to the Marijuana Control Board&#8217;s public safety seat, replacing Travis Welch, who only served for about two months.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Welch, Soldotna Police Chief Pete Mlynarik, (MLYN&#8217;-arh-ik) held the seat. He resigned in January after the U.S. Department of Justice shifted from a more lenient stance on marijuana enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Mlynarik said the department&#8217;s decision removed the underpinning on which Alaska&#8217;s industry is based.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/alaska-police-chief-named-to-marijuana-control-board-war-on-weed-a-waste-of-time\/\">Alaska Police Chief Named To Marijuana Control Board: War On Weed A &#8216;Waste Of Time&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police chief recently named to the board that regulates Alaska&#8217;s legal marijuana industry says the fight that has long&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/alaska-police-chief-named-to-marijuana-control-board-war-on-weed-a-waste-of-time\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/alaska-police-chief-named-to-marijuana-control-board-war-on-weed-a-waste-of-time\/\">Alaska Police Chief Named To Marijuana Control Board: War On Weed A &#8216;Waste Of Time&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7462,1616,9,1,3],"tags":[7476,4184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}