ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- A now-former news anchor in Alaska made a dramatic exit Sunday night, resigning from her position on-air after revealing she is the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club.

Charlo Greene of KTVA Anchorage hosted a feature story on Sunday's 10 p.m. news about the upcoming vote on Ballot Measure 2, which proposes to legalize recreational marijuana. The piece focused on the Alaska Cannabis Club, a medical dispensary and active advocate of legalizing THC.


Medical marijuana currently exists in a legal gray area in Alaska. Equipped farmers are allowed to grow -- but not sell -- the plants, while approved patients are allowed to acquire -- but not buy -- them. This forces patients to go through exchanges like the Alaska Cannabis Club which can arrange for legal donations. Should Alaska lift recreational prohibitions, medical patients would have easier access to their treatment.

"Now everything you've heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska. And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, [expletive] it, I quit."

Greene says the station had no knowledge of her connection to the Alaska Cannabis Club or her intentions to resign.

"I wanted to draw attention to this issue," Greene told the Alaska Dispatch News when asked why she left her job in such a dramatic fashion.

"As a member of the media, I've seen the dirty campaign tricks and lies that prohibitionists have been using over the past several months to sway Alaskan voters firsthand," Greene explains on the Alaska Cannabis Club's IndieGoGo page.

"Here's the sad thing: it's working. Polling shows the majority of Alaskans, who were in favor of the initiative at the start of the year, are now against it. Few people fighting for marijuana legalization in Alaska are as media savvy, well educated on the marijuana industry, passionate, professional and completely dedicated to passing this initiative as me, the only person in Alaska that has had the balls to face the injustice of Alaska's medical marijuana catch-22 and do something about it."

Alaskans will decide Ballot Measure 2 on Nov. 4.