The push to legalize public marijuana consumption won’t go through the Nevada Legislature without hefty opposition from the usual suspects.
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Getting Nevada’s retail marijuana industry off the ground will cost about $14 million over the next two years, the state’s tax department director said Thursday.
Las Vegas Sands executive Andy Abboud and Nevada Resort Association president Virginia Valentine are among the 12 people Clark County commissioners picked on Wednesday morning to be on a new marijuana advisory panel.
Smoking a joint down at your favorite pub could be a possibility for Nevadans under a newly introduced Senate bill.
It is going to be déjà vu all over again when the Legislature begins Week 5 on Monday, with new hearings scheduled on a DMV-based voter registration petition and another on the Equal Rights Amendment.
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions explained how the Justice Department would address pot smoking, it sent a wave of trepidation through Nevada. But it was business as usual within the office of the state Gaming Control Board.
Nevada’s federal prosecutor has snuffed out plans to celebrate the state’s new recreational marijuana law by lighting up on an Indian reservation.
Recent comments from the Trump administration regarding recreational marijuana use caused at least one Nevada cannabis company to “pump the brakes.”
The state on Friday took the first step in figuring how Nevada will regulate recreational marijuana.
Dubbed the “Green Ribbon Panel,” the board will set policies regarding land use and licensing of retail marijuana establishments and make recommendations to the County Commission for proposed changes to zoning and business license codes. The list of applicants was posted on the county website Thursday.
Both U.S. senators from Nevada asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week to let the state regulate itself when it comes to recreational marijuana.
Friday marks the beginning of a roughly three-month process for a group to develop recommendations for how the state should regulate recreational marijuana.
Nevada public schools Superintendent Steve Canavero isn’t sure what will happen if the proposed tax money from recreational marijuana sales doesn’t come through.
The Las Vegas City Council favors merging recreational and medical marijuana establishments into the same land-use category, but will hold off on legislating other local recreational marijuana matters.
An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana’s potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use.
