Local pot shop applications submitted

Two license applications for a prospective marijuana retailer have been submitted to the state Marijuana Control Board for consideration.

The applications – for retail and cultivation – were submitted October 24 on behalf of Happy Cannabis, a business being developed by Wrangell restaurateur Kelsey Martinsen.

Renovating the former Thunderbird Hotel, the business will feature a retail area and a separate grow and process facility. Martinsen expects the business should not produce much additional traffic flow, or at least not more than it had done when it operated as a hotel. Signage would not b...