Alaskan Cannabis Outfitters

Since Alaska started the licensing process for legal commercial cannabis, only three Homer-area licenses have been issued. All are for cultivation facilities and outside city limits. Two retail shops have moved to the delegated status — the second-to-last step in the Alaska Marijuana Control Board licensing process — and plan to open in 2018.

Remodeling of Uncle Herb’s on Ocean Drive continues, said owner Lloyd Stiassny of Anchorage. Construction of Alaskan Cannabis Outfitters on the Sterling Highway near Green Timbers Road will start in 2018, with a possible opening in the summer, said William Bear of Homer, an affiliate with corporate owner Great White Bear, LLC of Anchorage.

“We’re still a little ways out,” Bear said. “In a perfect world we’ll be open mid-season next year.”

The Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office has asked for a few tweaks to Uncle Herb’s application and is waiting for approval from the fire marshal, AMCO director Erika McConnell said in an email.