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NFL lineman joins panel calling for marijuana research — VIDEO

Eugene Monroe, an offensive lineman for the National Football League’s Baltimore Ravens, joined a panel at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to discuss the need for marijuana research Wednesday morning.

Nevada’s pot testing of drivers should be tossed, AAA study says

Nevada’s legal tests to determine if drivers are impaired by marijuana have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation’s largest automobile club that says those laws should be scrapped.

Colorado may raise pot limits for tourists

Colorado’s tourists would be able to buy as much marijuana as residents, if a bill moving through the state Legislature passes.

Local marijuana dispensaries celebrate 4/20 ‘holiday’

As the valley’s first medical marijuana dispensaries have set up shop over the past few months, with more on the way, they’re now lighting up “four twenty” — a day of the year, which is known to both smokers and nonsmokers of marijuana as a time to celebrate cannabis culture.

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Group promoting pot measure working to win support

A group pushing a November ballot measure to legalize the recreational use of small amounts of marijuana in Nevada is getting a campaign to win voter support underway.

Medical marijuana could be a benefit for North Las Vegas

A $1 billion electric car plant and a futuristic transportation test track are among developments North Las Vegas hopes willpay off and diversify its economy. There’s another, greener, economic development that officials hope will fatten the city’s wallet.

Nevada medical pot law poses lawsuit risk for employers, panel warns

Lack of clarity in Nevada’s medical marijuana law opens the door for litigation over employer requirements to accommodate workers who use medicinal marijuana, lawyers told a state advisory panel Wednesday.

US Supreme Court throws out lawsuit against Colo. pot law

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma against their neighbor Colorado over a law approved as a ballot initiative by Colorado voters in 2012 that allows the recreational use of marijuana.

Nevada lawmakers clear the way for test crops of hemp

Marijuana’s useful cousin hemp could soon be sprouting on test plots in Nevada after a legislative subcommittee gave final approval Thursday to regulations overseeing the pilot project.

Retired Las Vegas police officer has new job with marijuana

Dave Kallas spent over two decades busting drug dealers on the streets of Las Vegas. On Saturday, he became a dealer himself — a legal one — when his medical marijuana dispensary The Apothecarium, 7885 W. Sahara Ave., officially opened for business.

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