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Lack of State Inspectors May Delay Opening of Nevada Marijuana Dispensaries

Dozens of medical marijuana businesses in Las Vegas could face delays in their opening dates. The state isn’t rethinking the law that legalized the growth and sale of cannabis for patients’ use. Rather, it’s having trouble filling bureaucratic posts responsible…

Nevada Medical Marijuana Patient Claims Patient Registration is Unconstitutional

A medical marijuana cardholder has filed a lawsuit alleging Nevada‘s patient registration system is unconstitutional. James Parsons‘ complaint says federal agents raided his house in 2010 after getting his name from a state patient database. He says provisions in the…

Delay After Delay Slows Opening of Nevada’s 1st Medical Marijuana Dispensary

A dispute over how much marijuana a home grower can sell to a dispensary is causing yet another delay in the opening of Nevada’s first legal medical marijuana shops. Clark County officials want to limit the amount any one person…

Nevada Marijuana Industry Struggling With Its Failure to Launch

It's been two years since the Legislature approved a new law establishing a system of dispensaries and growing facilities to make medical marijuana more accessible to patients, but so far not a single bud has been sold. That could change…

How Will Nevada Employers Deal With Workers on Medical Marijuana?

May 25, 2015
John Hollon
Human Capital Management, Nevada, Policy & Legal
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Twenty-three states, including Nevada, have passed laws permitting marijuana for medical purposes. Twenty others have ballot measures pending to do the same this year. Four — Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Alaska — and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana…

Arrests Disrupt Marijuana Education Convention in Las Vegas

Las Vegas police and federal agents arrested 10 people and seized drugs over the weekend at Hempcon, a marijuana education convention at the Cashman Center. People who were there described seeing police dogs around the event, as well as officers…

Frustration in Nevada Waiting For State to Hash Out Medical Marijuana Rules

After spending months in limbo, waiting for the state to hash out rules for testing medical marijuana, laboratories might be able to get to work soon in Nevada. That moves patients one step closer to the first legal sales in…

Pets Could Be Given Medical Marijuana Under New Law Proposed in Nevada

March 19, 2015
Rob Meagher
Nevada
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Pets could soon be given marijuana in a U.S. state looking to expand its existing laws legalizing the drug for medical use. A bill was introduced on Tuesday in the Nevada Legislature would allow animal owners to obtain cannabis if…

Nevada Becomes First State to Put Legalization Initiative on 2016 Ballot

Hoping to build on consecutive electoral victories, advocates say they have secured the first state marijuana legalization ballot measure for 2016. Nevada state lawmakers had until Saturday to take action on the ballot measure, which would legalize marijuana for recreational use, but adjourned on…

Las Vegas’ Home County Sued Over Medical Marijuana Actions

A barrage of medical marijuana lawsuits has been filed against Clark County, the largest local government in Nevada to play a role in approving dispensaries. Five medical marijuana dispensary applicants are suing the County Commission in three separate lawsuits that…

Cannabis comes to Las Vegas: Answering your burning questions about medical marijuana

January 20, 2015
Rob Meagher
Nevada
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In the coming weeks, the first crops of cannabis will begin blooming in warehouses across the valley, the most tangible sign yet that medical marijuana is headed to Southern Nevada. Businesses that received state approval in November have been busy…

Joint Venture

December 5, 2014
Rob Meagher
Nevada
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It’s a familiar scene: A few hundred businessmen, investors and a few politicians pack a hotel conference room, the requisite white linen covering banquet tables sitting under glittering chandeliers. Some of the attendees swap business cards and hit the coffee…

Shroud of secrecy surrounds medical marijuana businesses

December 4, 2014
Rob Meagher
Nevada
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RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- Finding out who have been selected winners and losers of Nevada's budding medical marijuana business, and why, has turned out to be almost impossible. News 4's On Your Side team believes Nevadans have a right…

Southern Nevada financial industry paranoid about pot business

October 13, 2014
Rob Meagher
Nevada

John Sullivan is the medical-marijuana banking king of Las Vegas, having signed dozens of planned dispensaries, grow-houses and other pot entrepreneurs as clients. That’s far more than other lenders in town. In fact, Sullivan appears to be the only one…

Henderson to join medical marijuana industry

Henderson is getting ready to enter the medical marijuana fray a year after the state signed the industry into law. The city is scheduled to introduce a series bills at the June 17 City Council meeting that would set the…