Stores across the state sold roughly $32.8 million worth of marijuana for the month, down from December’s $35.8 million in sales, according to statistics published by the state this week.
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Nevadans with past misdemeanor pot convictions can have their records sealed away, but the Clark County district attorney isn’t ready to wave a magic wand to make it happen.
“All I really know is being in prison, and that’s pretty normal for me now,” said Williams, who has served nearly 18 years in the Nevada prison system after killing six teenagers working on a roadside cleanup crew in a 2000 car crash.
Nevada has brought in more than $30 million in tax revenue from marijuana in its first six months of legal recreational sales, according to the revenue numbers released Friday by the Nevada Department of Taxation.
Nevada wants to be the nation’s gold standard for marijuana regulation, and last week it got the chance to show off its mettle to visitors from the Garden State.
G3 Labs, a Las Vegas marijuana testing facility, has been reinstated after five months of suspension, the Nevada Department of Taxation said Friday.
Sandoval, who appointed Contine as the director of the Tax Department in Nov. 2014, praised her as someone he could trust with difficult of tasks.
Nevada regulators are cracking down on marijuana testing labs, as nearly half of the state’s marijuana labs have had their license suspended in the last five months.
Nevada marijuana sales continue to soar well above the state’s initial projections, with dispensaries selling $33.4 million in marijuana and the state bringing in more than $5.5 million in taxes in the month of November.
Titus, a Democrat representing central Las Vegas, on Tuesday signed on as a co-sponsor to a bill from U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, that aims to remove marijuana in all forms from the schedule of drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.
The Nevada Tax Commission voted unanimously to codify the state’s regulatory structure for recreational marijuana on Tuesday.
The announcement reignited fears that Sessions — a staunch opponent of legalization — would try to shut down the industry, but marijuana businesses and states have changed nothing.
Nevada’s nascent recreational marijuana industry could be in danger with the rescinding of a federal memo seen as the sole protector for state-regulated pot markets.
One Las Vegas marijuana company may have found the perfect way to tap into the community’s giving nature.
Big crowds greeted the beginning of legal recreational marijuana sales in Las Vegas and around Nevada on Saturday morning.
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