A marijuana club that for a fee allows patrons to smoke pot or consume it in foods has opened in Fairbanks.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports The Higher Calling Club opened Monday in a remodeled former wine bar downtown.
Coffee and doughnuts were out for customers the first day. The cost is $10 per day or $25 per month.
Questions remain about the legality of businesses with connections to marijuana.
Owner Marcus Mooers says his business is legal because it doesn’t sell marijuana and is not prohibited by Alaska’s 2014 voter-approved initiative that legalized recreational use of pot.
City of Fairbanks spokeswoman Amber Courtney says Mooers obtained a city business license. She says nobody from the city specifically told him that it was OK to open a pot-smoking business.
