F<\/span>or the thrill-seeking traveler, Las Vegas\u2019s allures are many: Gambling, a Penn & Teller show, all-night dance clubs, a dinner whipped up by a Michelin-starred chef \u2014 and now, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 1, an armful of recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n Eight months after voters in four states approved recreational marijuana legalization, Nevada will be the first of the four to record the first sale.<\/p>\n 5 days and counting! We can\u2019t wait to serve you all here in #lasvegas! #theessencelyfe #findyouressence<\/a><\/p>\n A post shared by Essence Vegas (@essence_vegas) on Jun 26, 2017 at 4:55pm PDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n While officials in California haggle over details and lawmakers in Massachusetts and Maine redraw voter-approved legalization as they see fit, the first official day of legal cannabis sales to all adults 21 and over in Nevada will be Saturday, July 1, state authorities confirmed this week.<\/p>\n Dispensaries in Las Vegas \u2014 one of the most-visited places in the world and now the possible heir to the title of America\u2019s marijuana tourism mecca <\/a>\u2014 plan to start as soon as they\u2019re legally able.<\/p>\n Like California, Nevada already has an established medical-marijuana industry, with dozens of dispensaries in Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County. Until Saturday, patronizing a dispensary will requires a recommendation from a physician as well as a state-issued ID card.<\/p>\n Early on during the debate over how to start selling cannabis to adults, Nevada officials set an aggressive deadline of July 1 for the first sale. Despite some open questions and a legal challenge<\/a>, on Monday, the Nevada Tax Commission adopted \u201cemergency regulations,\u201d as the Las Vegas Sun reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n As per the paper, 37 Vegas-area medical dispensaries will receive \u201cdual-use permits\u201d to start selling to anyone 21 or over. The emergency regulations<\/a>, which set strict rules for packaging and advertising, are good for 120 days \u2014 and it\u2019s not clear if dispensaries\u2019 supply will last that long.<\/p>\n During that time, dispensaries will be able to sell only what they have currently in stock, as a recent court ruling has held that only liquor distributors will be able to sell marijuana for the first 18 months of recreational sales.<\/p>\n That decision will be appealed, but in the meantime, the will of the voters will be fulfilled and sales will begin. The lone dispensary on the Las Vegas Strip<\/a>, Essence, is already inviting \u201ccelebrities, dignitaries, VIPs, and tourists\u201d to start patronizing their wares beginning at a minute past midnight on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n The speed with which Nevada ushered in the age of recreational cannabis sales is thus far unmatched. The first sales in Colorado, which with Washington legalized adult-use marijuana in November 2012, took place on January 1, 2014.<\/p>\n In California, which sold just shy of $1 billion worth of medical cannabis in 2016, according to state tax officials, authorities are on pace to allow adult-use sales by early 2018.<\/p>\n In Maine and Massachusetts, where lawmakers on Monday met behind closed doors to rewrite the voter-approved law, the first sales won\u2019t happen until summer 2018 at the earliest.<\/p>\n As Nevada is demonstrating, figuring out how to sell recreational marijuana where you already sell medical doesn\u2019t have to be a laborious, drawn-out process.<\/p>\n TELL US,\u00a0<\/strong>are you considering a visit to Vegas to check out their recreational cannabis market?<\/p>\n The post Nevada Recreational Rollout Still on Schedule for July 1<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas, Nevada has long been associated with indulging in vices that are forbidden back home. For Sin City visitors flying into The Strip from states or countries without decriminalization, recreational cannabis is about to become a major attraction. For the thrill-seeking traveler, Las Vegas\u2019s allures are many: Gambling, aContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159,50,80,228,90,26,171],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17376,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions\/17376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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