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Your 2024 Guide to 4/20 in Las Vegas

April 15, 2024

By Las Vegas Weekly Staff

Explore the best of 4/20 with our 2024 Guide! Check out these discounts from dispensaries in Las Vegas plus a 4/20 pool party.
At UNLV, a first-of-its-kind Cannabis Policy Institute is up and running

Nov. 28, 2023

By Grace Da Rocha

The institute will serve as a research hub for cannabis policy and “local, state, national and international implications for public policy, law, medicine, science, economics and ...
Nevada cannabis board starting consumption-lounge applications in October

Sept. 14, 2022

By Bryan Horwath

State cannabis regulators on Wednesday announced an October gathering period for consumption lounge applications, according to a news release.
Exhale Brands changes the vape game with AirBuds

April 14, 2022

By Evelyn Mateos

Launching April 16 at dispensaries throughout Nevada, AirBuds have other features in common with AirPods aside from their size and shape.
Report: Oregon marijuana sales 420% stronger near Idaho

Jan. 18, 2020

By Associated Press

Marijuana sales in Oregon along the Idaho state line are 420% the statewide average, according to a state report ....
UNLV study: Marijuana use can harm fetus during pregnancy

Dec. 9, 2019

By Kelcie Grega

Marijuana use during pregnancy has doubled over the last 15 years, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Frustration and pride in Canada after a year of legal marijuana

Oct. 20, 2019

By Gene Johnson, Elaine Thompson and Rob Gillies, Associated Press

It's one year into Canada's experiment in legal marijuana, and hundreds of legal pot shops have opened. While many residents remain proud of Canada for bucking prohibition, a lot still buy cannabis on the sly ...
Sisolak vows to root out crime in marijuana marketplace

Oct. 12, 2019

By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Nevada's governor expressed outrage Friday and vowed to tighten control of the state's lucrative legal marijuana marketplace in response to reports that a foreign national contributed to two top state political candidates last year in a bid to skirt rules to open ...
MedMen launches round-the-clock marijuana delivery service in Las Vegas

Sept. 18, 2019

By Bryan Horwath

In this 24-hour town of ours you can get a drink, go grocery shopping and lift weights whenever you desire — regardless of the time of day. Now, Las Vegas-area residents can also have legal marijuana delivered to their front door at all hours. After debuting cannabis delivery service last month in California, MedMen ...
Las Vegas pet parents warming to idea of CBD products

Sept. 9, 2019

By Bryan Horwath

While big box pet store chains like PetSmart and Petco still do not sell CBD products, a number of stores around the Las Vegas Valley do. Attitudes around the country continue to evolve on marijuana, and pet owners seem to be more and more willing to offer CBD products to their dogs and cats ...
Mike Tyson wants to be ‘the face of cannabis’ in Las Vegas

Sept. 4, 2019

By Bryan Horwath

Sitting in a conference room at the Planet 13 dispensary, Mike Tyson talked proudly about his marijuana business interests and Las Vegas, the city that helped make him famous. The former boxer was there Saturday to promote his Tyson Ranch line of cannabis ...
Young entrepreneur capitalizes on Nevada cannabis vision

July 30, 2019

By Bryan Horwath

Priscilla Vilchis says she’s primed to build a cannabis business empire. The owner and CEO of Premium Produce, a marijuana cultivation and production facility in Las Vegas, Vilchis, 32, worked ...
Reno marijuana store uses 'food truck' label for credit card sales

July 20, 2019

By Associated Press

Blüm marijuana dispensary certainly doesn't look like a food truck. There are no chicken wings or tacos at the Reno store, just displays of ...
As Las Vegas concedes on marijuana lounges, dispensaries play waiting game

July 9, 2019

By Miranda Willson

In response to the passage of Assembly Bill 533 in June, Las Vegas has officially put on hold the process to open marijuana consumption lounges. Las Vegas would have ...
California launches ad campaign against illegal pot shops

June 22, 2019

By Michael R. Blood, Associated Press

Marijuana shoppers are going to be getting a message from California regulators: Go legal
Cannabis has been a thing for 2,500 years, study says

June 16, 2019

By Jan Hoffman, New York Times News Service

An association between weed and the dead turns out to have been established long before the 1960s and far beyond a certain band’s stomping grounds in San Francisco ...
Marijuana health claims lure patients as science catches up

June 16, 2019

By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press

Marijuana has been shown to help ease pain and a few other health problems, yet two-thirds of U.S. states have decided pot should be legal to treat many other conditions with little scientific backing ...
Nevada law prevents most employers from rejecting pot-users

June 12, 2019

By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Two backers of a pioneering Nevada law to prevent employers from rejecting job-seekers based on a pre-employment marijuana test cast the effort Wednesday as an anti-discrimination measure in a state where ...
Dispensary executive: ‘State made its best effort’ in Nevada licensing process

June 10, 2019

By Bryan Horwath

Andrew Jolley, an executive with Nevada Organic Remedies, said it wasn’t his job to analyze how the Nevada Department of Taxation graded applications for cannabis dispensary licenses ...
Taxes and fees: Where marijuana money is going in Nevada

June 10, 2019

By Miranda Willson

Weeks before the end of the Nevada legislative session, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced plans to use revenue generated from the state’s marijuana excise sales tax to ...
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