First Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Dispensary Scheduled to Open Monday August 21, 2015 AggregatedNews Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments After months of delays, Clark County's first legal medical marijuana dispensaryplans to open Monday. Euphoria Wellness got final state and county approvals this week, a spokesman said. The news came more than two years after the Nevada Legislature voted to… Read More→
Nevada’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in Reno Area August 3, 2015 AggregatedNews Retail 0 Comments SPARKS — Dozens of people waiting in line cheered Friday when Nevada's first medical marijuana dispensary opened in Sparks, 15 years after voters approved medicinal pot. Silver State Relief, locate in a shopping center on a busy street corner, became the… Read More→
Las Vegas Dispensary May Take Legal Action Over Delayed Opening July 28, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Retail 0 Comments Frustrated by what they call arbitrary actions by Clark County officials that have delayed their opening, the owners of a medical marijuana dispensary are considering legal action. Euphoria Wellness has been ready to open its doors since February. But due… Read More→
Lack of State Inspectors May Delay Opening of Nevada Marijuana Dispensaries July 23, 2015 AggregatedNews Nevada, Policy & Legal, Retail 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Nevada Medical Marijuana Patient Claims Patient Registration is Unconstitutional July 16, 2015 AggregatedNews Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Delay After Delay Slows Opening of Nevada’s 1st Medical Marijuana Dispensary June 23, 2015 AggregatedNews Nevada, Policy & Legal, Retail 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Nevada Marijuana Industry Struggling With Its Failure to Launch June 11, 2015 AggregatedNews Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
How Will Nevada Employers Deal With Workers on Medical Marijuana? May 25, 2015 John Hollon Human Capital Management, Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Arrests Disrupt Marijuana Education Convention in Las Vegas May 20, 2015 John Hollon Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Las Vegas Bank Now Says They Won’t Serve Cannabis Industry May 16, 2015 John Hollon Banking, Finance & Real Estate 0 Comments A Las Vegas bank that planned to offer accounts to medical marijuana businesses has backed off, citing the astronomical cost of complying with federal regulations. First Security Bank of Nevada’s decision leaves some in the legal cannabis industry scrambling for… Read More→
Frustration in Nevada Waiting For State to Hash Out Medical Marijuana Rules May 6, 2015 John Hollon Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Behind the Scenes: Inside a Las Vegas Marijuana Testing Lab April 20, 2015 John Hollon Lab Testing 0 Comments The space is no bigger than a good-sized office break room. On beige counters along the walls and on an island in the center sit off-white rectangular boxes that could be copiers or printers. But the several hundred thousand dollars… Read More→
Pets Could Be Given Medical Marijuana Under New Law Proposed in Nevada March 19, 2015 Rob Meagher Nevada 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Nevada Becomes First State to Put Legalization Initiative on 2016 Ballot March 15, 2015 John Hollon Nevada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Nevada’s Pot Industry Struggles With Costs to Grow Medical Marijuana March 11, 2015 John Hollon Cultivation, News & Insights 0 Comments Early last year, the broker for a 100,000-square-foot warehouse near Las Vegas called the power company to find out how much juice the building would need. Longtime NV Energy executive Arnold Lopez went out to meet a group on the… Read More→