"Peter Mlynarik, chair of the state's Marijuana Control Board, gathered signatures to get the [Kenai Peninsula Borough] ban on the ballot. Last year, a state assistant attorney general said that he hadn't committed any ethics violations in doing so. Conflict of interest concerns only arise in Alaska's Executive Branch Ethics Act when there's a significant financial interest."

I for one am sick and tired of reading this same nonsense over and over again: "It's not a legal conflict of interest."  Well then let's change the laws to make these blatant conflicts of interest illegal, as they should be.