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Applications are official open in Nevada for marijuana consumption lounges\u2014a license type that many are hopeful will attract cannabis tourism and further drive sales.<\/p>\n
The Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) started accepting the applications on Friday morning, and the window will close on October 27.<\/p>\n
This comes more than a year after Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) signed a bill<\/a> from Assemblyman Steve Yeager (D) legalizing consumption lounges.<\/p>\n Existing retailers are able to apply for one lounge license category to build onto their operations, and there will also be independent lounges that can enter into a contract with a retailer to purchase and prepare ready-to-consume marijuana products for resale.<\/p>\n Regulators said that they expect to receive about 40-45 applications from retailers. They don\u2019t currently have an estimate for how many independent lounge applications will be submitted. However, they\u2019re only authorized to issue up to 20, half of which must be for social equity applicants.<\/p>\n CCB approved regulations for marijuana lounges<\/a> over the summer. They also notified people on Friday that a statewide IT issue is affecting the board\u2019s website, but they directed prospective applications to a separate site<\/a> where they can submit their forms.<\/p>\n ACH payments are temporarily affected due to the outage. However, you can still complete your application and return to make payment once the statewide IT outage has been resolved.<\/p>\n \u2014 Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (@NevadaCCB) October 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n The law could also allow businesses that couple cannabis with yoga, serve infused food, offer THC-aided massage therapy or incorporate marijuana in other ways.<\/p>\n The governor touted Nevada\u2019s lounge law in a 4\/20 op-ed for Marijuana Moment<\/a>\u00a0this year, writing: \u201cThe idea isn\u2019t new, but no one is doing it like we are in Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhile most of the consumption lounges in other states don\u2019t offer food, beverages or other entertainment options,\u201d he said, \u201cNevada\u2019s lounges will be a one-stop entertainment shop to create jobs, grow the industry and boost our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n Under the board-approved rules, consumption must be hidden from public view. Smoking and vaping must take place in a separate room of the lounge or be prohibited entirely. Single-use or ready-to-consume cannabis products can\u2019t be brought off-site. And businesses must provide water to every guest free of charge.<\/p>\n The lounges will also be cannabis-only. No alcohol, tobacco or nicotine products can be sold.<\/p>\n \u2014 Other safety-related regulations require lounges to establish plans to limit cannabis-impaired driving and minimize workers\u2019 exposure to secondhand smoke. Guns are prohibited, surveillance is required and procedures must be in place to reduce and respond to potentially violent or harassing behavior.<\/p>\n Single-use cannabis products are limited to no more than 3.5 grams of usable cannabis under the regulations, with \u201cextracted inhalable cannabis products\u201d (such as vaping or dabbing products) limited to 300 milligrams of THC. All single-use products with more than 1 gram of usable cannabis, and all extracted inhalables, must carry written potency warnings.<\/p>\n Individual servings of ready-to-consume edible products are capped at 10 milligrams THC, a fairly standard amount in states that have legalized cannabis for adult use.<\/p>\n Topicals, meanwhile, are limited to 400 milligrams of THC. Transdermal patches and all other cannabis products can have no more than 100 milligrams THC and must carry a written warning if they have more than 10 milligrams.<\/p>\n Marijuana sales totaled just under $1 billion in Nevada<\/a> in the 2022 Fiscal Year, generating more than $152 million in cannabis tax revenue, officials reported this month. Most of the proceeds are going toward funding schools.<\/p>\n The hope is that the cannabis lounge option will further stimulate sales when those services launch.<\/p>\n Sisolak has committed to promoting equity and justice in the state\u2019s marijuana law. In 2020, for example, he\u00a0pardoned more than 15,000 people<\/a>\u00a0who were convicted for low-level cannabis possession. That action was made possible under\u00a0a resolution the governor introduced<\/a>\u00a0that was unanimously approved by the state\u2019s Board of Pardons Commissioners.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0a Nevada judge ruled last month<\/a>\u00a0that the Board of Pharmacy\u2019s classification of the drug as a Schedule I substance violates the state Constitution.<\/p>\n The ACLU of Nevada\u00a0filed a lawsuit earlier this year<\/a>, alleging that despite voter-approved legalization police have continued to make marijuana-related arrests because the Board of Pharmacy has refused to remove cannabis from its controlled substances list.<\/p>\n That has effectively created a legal \u201cloophole\u201d that the civil rights group says conflicts with long-standing constitutional protections for medical marijuana patients.<\/p>\n Clark County District Court Judge Joe Hardy ruled last month that the board\u2019s designation does, in fact, violate the state Constitution, though he\u2019s still reserving\u00a0judgment on whether the governmental body has regulatory authority over marijuana until both sides submit draft orders for him to review on that matter.<\/p>\n Separately, in August 2021, a former Las Vegas police officer who sued after facing termination for testing positive for marijuana\u00a0scored a significant procedural victory<\/a>, with a district judge denying the department\u2019s request for summary judgement and agreeing that state statute protects employees\u2019 lawful use of cannabis outside of work.<\/p>\n Maryland\u2019s Marijuana Legalization Referendum Could Drive Strong Voter Turnout, Poll Indicates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n The post Nevada Is Now Accepting Marijuana Consumption Lounge Applications<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Applications are official open in Nevada for marijuana consumption lounges\u2014a license type that many are hopeful will attract cannabis tourism and further drive sales. The Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) started accepting the applications on Friday morning, and the window will close on October 27. This comes more than aContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":57511,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1335,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57510"}],"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\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57512,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57510\/revisions\/57512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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