The Clark County Commission continues to wrestle with the idea of recreation-only marijuana dispensaries.
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The Mormon church joined lawmakers, the governor and advocates to back a deal Thursday that would legalize medical marijuana in conservative Utah after months of fierce debate.
Clark County could see as many as 31 new recreational marijuana stores open based on the number of licenses the state has available.
Nevada dispensaries sold nearly $425 million worth of recreational marijuana and pulled in nearly $70 million in tax revenue in the state’s first full year of sales, officials announced Tuesday.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Steve Sisolak told business leaders on Friday that if some Nevadans knew that revenue from a marijuana sales tax isn’t all going towards education, they would not have voted to legalize cannabis.
Nevada’s first full year of legal adult-use marijuana sales is set to exceed more than $400 million in sales. But the dispensaries, producers and marijuana growers in the state still have no stable place for all that cash.
Recreational marijuana sales became legal in Nevada on July 1, 2017. In the year that’s passed, cash has flowed, businesses have grown and no major controversies have surfaced.
The recreational marijuana industry has accounted for 17 percent of the state’s taxable sales base this year, according to the department.
Despite recreational marijuana use being legal for more than a year in Nevada, Las Vegas’ roughly 42 million annual visitors don’t have many options for where they can use the pot they buy in local dispensaries. State law bans public consumption, and casinos and hotels don’t allow people to consume cannabis on their properties.
Nevada’s fledgling marijuana industry has taken off significantly faster than state officials anticipated. Now state regulators are scrambling to catch up.