After nearly two years of discussion, the Las Vegas City Council approved the licensing of social-use cannabis venues on May 1. In a city with some of the world’s largest legal cannabis retailers—and nowhere to light up—it looked like visitors finally would have a comfortable place to enjoy their purchases. Las Vegas has some of […]
A new government task force in Nevada is targeting sexual harassment in two of the state’s most lucrative industries: gaming—of course—but also cannabis. Gov. Steve Sisolak created the task force earlier this month through a pair of executive orders—his first two since taking office on Jan. 7. He said the project, aimed at ensuring Nevadans […]
Nevada’s legal cannabis industry generated nearly $1 billion in total output activity for the state’s economy in its first year of legalized recreational sales, a top industry group said Friday. Cannabis brought at least 8,300 full-time jobs to Nevada, an industry association said. The state recorded $529.9 million in taxable cannabis sales during the fiscal year […]
As Canada works towards next year’s launch of an adult-use cannabis market, there are still some key regulatory issues to hammer out. One of which is how the country should handle its existing medical marijuana program. A pair of pharmacology researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, want to see officials separate medical and […]
