ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anchorage police served search warrants at marijuana activist Charlo Greene's Alaska Cannabis Club, after receiving reports of illegal marijuana sales.
The police took marijuana, and impounded a Dodge Dakota and a Jeep Liberty on Friday, local television station KTUU reported.
Greene is a former television reporter who gained notoriety when she quit her job on live TV in September by saying, "F*ck it. I quit," and announced that she would become an advocate to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Alaska.
Greene, whose legal name is Charlene Egbe, told local television station KTVA that the club is a medical-marijuana dispensary. "We don't sell any recreational marijuana. We don't sell any medical marijuana. This is a place for cardholders to come, and share their own cannabis," she said.
The residence is home to multiple medical-marijuana cardholders, as well as the club, Greene added.
"I saw them uproot a couple of marijuana plants. They took some bongs and pipes and phones and computers, and that's pretty much it," she said on scene, as bags of items were carried out by police.
However, police reportedly said in a statement to the media on Friday that they "received reports of the illegal sale of marijuana and other derivatives at a location that's been identified as the Alaska Cannabis Club."
Greene said she reopened the club on Saturday.
"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," she said in an email to The Associated Press.
Greene said she was "incensed" that the police executed a search warrant on her, instead of focusing on a stabbing and shootings that happened nearby just a few hours before.
Alaska voters last year approved a ballot measure legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. But it's still illegal to sell the drug.
Guidelines for the regulation of the marijuana trade are under consideration by the Alaska State Legislature.
Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Castro said it's "very important that people don't try to jump the gun until the state sets our other rules and protocols for the sale and commercialization of marijuana."
No arrests have been made or charges filed in connection with the raid.
Additional reporting by Mashable