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Legal since 2014 for epilepsy and clinical trials. Now legal across the state when derived from hemp plant according to state Attorney General.
Pharmacies can sell CBD containing less than .3% THC as of June 2019.
Alaska is a U.S. state on the northwest extremity of the country’s West Coast, just across the Bering Strait from Asia. An exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and southeast and has a maritime border with Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest.
Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states Texas, California, and Montana combined, and the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent’s most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel. Approximately half of Alaska’s residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. The state capital of Juneau is the second-largest city in the United States by area, comprising more territory than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware.
Counties of Alaska by Population
| Rank | County | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 288,000 |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 108,317 |
| 3 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 96,849 |
| 4 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 58,708 |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 31,974 |
| 6 | Bethel Census Area | 18,386 |
| 7 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 13,901 |
| 8 | Kodiak Island Borough | 12,998 |
| 9 | Nome Census Area | 10,004 |
| 10 | North Slope Borough | 9,832 |
| 11 | Valdez-Cordova Census Area | 9,202 |
| 12 | Sitka City and Borough | 8,493 |
| 13 | Kusilvak Census Area | 8,314 |
| 14 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 7,621 |
| 15 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 6,893 |
| 16 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 6,203 |
| 17 | Aleutians West Census Area | 5,634 |
| 18 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 5,230 |
| 19 | Dillingham Census Area | 4,916 |
| 20 | Aleutians East Borough | 3,337 |
| 21 | Petersburg Borough | 3,266 |
| 22 | Haines Borough | 2,530 |
| 23 | Wrangell City and Borough | 2,502 |
| 24 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 2,148 |
| 25 | Denali Borough | 2,097 |
| 26 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 1,592 |
| 27 | Skagway Municipality | 1,183 |
| 28 | Bristol Bay Borough | 836 |
| 29 | Yakutat City and Borough | 579 |
United States Census Bureau. B01001 SEX BY AGE, 2018 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Office. Web. 19 December 2019.
http://www.census.gov/.United States Census Bureau. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019. U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. Web. May 2020. http://www.census.gov/.
