If you’re looking for a legal place outside your home to light up a joint in Anchorage, you’ll need to keep waiting.
The Anchorage Assembly last week voted to indefinitely table a measure that would have OK’d smoking at licensed cannabis dispensaries, as a majority of members expressed concern over secondhand smoke and high driving. City rules already allow for the consumption of marijuana edibles, but inhalation is banned under the city’s smoking rules, and there are currently no actively licensed consumption spots in the city.
The measure was brought forward by East Anchorage Assemblymember George Martinez, who said that he wanted to clear up a gray area in city law that makes it illegal to smoke any place other than on private property. He said it encourages people to smoke out in public, creating a nuisance and risking a ticket…