Former Alaska KTVA anchor Charlo Greene.
The video of former Alaska KTVA anchor Charlo Greene made headlines last year after she quit on the air. She said she had grown increasingly frustrated with the media’s anti-cannabis propaganda and had decided to focus on her pro-marijuana campaign for the Alaska Cannabis Club where she now works.
She became a high profile “celebrity” of sorts, virtually overnight. But Greene’s former employer, KTVA, reported that last Friday, police raided the legal marijuana store (or “club” if you prefer), where Greene works.
Police officials say that they executed a search warrant Friday which alleged: “there is now being concealed property, namely: Marijuana, in cultivation or harvested, resins, oils, hashish or other THC derivatives, concentrates, edibles and equipment used in the extraction of THC,” as well as other “illegal transactions.”
Law enforcement also say that they searched electronic statements from the dispensary that they believe were “used in or intended for use in or derived from trafficking in controlled substances.”
Greene, whose real name is Charlene Egbe, told her former employer that they took a few marijuana plants, bongs, pipes, phones, computers and two vehicles from the residence. She claimed it was only a “fourth degree misdemeanor.”
“This is basically a medical marijuana dispensary,” Greene said. She’s the CEO of the Alaska Cannabis Club. She told her former employer KTVA that she watched authorities execute the raid.
“We don’t sell any recreational marijuana, we don’t sell any medical marijuana. This is a place for card holders to come and share their own cannabis.”
Greene said that the club was reopened the next day, in spite of the read.
“By opening back up bright and early, less than 24 hours after the local police department’s failed scare tactic, we, at the Alaska Cannabis Club, have made it clear that the will of the people is stronger than any force they have — and we aren’t going anywhere,” Greene told the Associated Press in an email.
Recreational marijuana use is currently legal in Alaska, but it is still illegal to sell pot and smoke it in public places. KTVA only identified Greene as a “former television reporter,” and did not mention that she used to work for the network. No arrests were made at the scene, and nobody was charged with a crime.