Alaskan fans of cannabis are another step closer to being able to pick up the drug from their own neighborhood dispensaries.

Earlier this month, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott filed marijuana establishment regulations in accordance with state statute. The regulations filing comes after the Marijuana Control Board (MCB) adopted the regulations package in November, which was subsequently approved by the Alaska Department of Law.

A year prior, 57 percent of Wrangellites had joined other Alaska voters in allowing the regulated cultivation and sale of marijuana. After the November 2014 referendum, it fe...