Nevada

Ready. Set. Apply.
Nevada’s medical marijuana dispensaries eager to participate in the state’s “early start” recreational program can now apply.
On Monday, Nevada’s Department of Taxation began accepting applications from existing medical marijuana dispensaries wanting to cultivate, manufacture and distribute recreational marijuana in the Silver State.

Summer trips to Las Vegas and Reno are about to get way more lit.

The Nevada Tax Commission on Monday voted to allow qualifying licensed medical marijuana dispensaries to begin selling pot for recreational purposes as early as July 1, reports the Las Vegas Sun.
The commission has a Jan. 1 deadline to draft rules for recreational marijuana sales, but decided to issue early temporary licenses to qualifying shops in an effort to test regulations before the program goes into full effect in 2018.
Officials stressed the urge to adopt regulations early in order to meet Gov.

In less than two months, it will be perfectly legal to purchase recreational marijuana from select dispensaries in Nevada, according to a recent report from the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Earlier this week, the Nevada Tax Commission put its seal of approval on a measure that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries with immaculate records to obtain a temporary license to sell weed for recreational purposes.

The goal of what has been deemed the “early start” program is to get recreational pot sales up and running ahead of the deadline set for the commission to establish rules for the state’s fully legal market.

On Monday, Nevada’s Tax Commission approved their temporary regulations, potentially cultivating an “early start” for the state’s adult-use marijuana sales. Rushed through the regulatory process by the Department of Taxation, recreational sales in Nevada are anticipated to begin before the 4th of July.
According to the Las Vegas review Journal, the program is projected to generate more than $70 million for the state over the first two years. Deonne Contine, Director of Nevada’s Department of Taxation, views the new revenue stream as the most viable way of meeting Gov.

Cops around the country are having a hard time figuring out if drivers are stoned. With drunk driving, a breathalyzer test can easily alert officers to heightened blood-alcohol content levels, but with weed, which stays in the body for up to a month, it’s damn-near impossible to determine if a driver lit up 10 minutes or 10 days before getting behind the wheel.

Now, according to U.S. News, legislators in Nevada are trying their hardest to eliminate the DUI confusion and standardize the procedure for stopping stoned drivers.

Last year, a total of four states voted to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Although most of the attention has been focused on California, Massachusetts, and to some extent, Nevada, the small northeastern state of Maine is in the midst of constructing a lucrative cannabis market of their own.

While lawmakers are reluctant to become the first state in the country to allow social marijuana clubs, this hasn’t stopped lobbyists from using big bucks to help garner more influence over regulations.

What is the DUI limit for marijuana in states where it’s legal?As everyone is aware, recreational cannabis is now fully legal for adults up and down the West coast, as well as in Colorado, Nevada, Massachusetts, Maine, and D.C.  Psychoactive marijuana is legal for medicinal purposes in twenty other states, and counting.Critics of legalization have complained that there will inevitably be a spike in drugged driving in these “green” states, due to increased availability and reduced social stigma.  The numbers do not necessarily prove naysayers’ predictions correct – at least not yet.

Cannabis cultivators in Northern California are in the midst of a giant shift. Recreational regulations are being debated in the state house, a new set of medical marijuana regulations is set to go into effect at the end of the year, and the state’s growers are trying to adapt.

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A bipartisan group of House Democrats and Republicans recently hashed out a $1 trillion budget for government spending, but none of which will be used to crack down on legal pot.
A new government funding bill will block the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute law-abiding medical marijuana companies operating in legal states, reports the Orange County Register.
The budget’s full text of the marijuana provision is as follows:
None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States

We have been covering the topic of social cannabis consumption for quite a while at The Weed Blog.  Being based in Portland we would love to see Oregon be the first state to pioneer this area of the cannabis industry (and we are sure hopeful with Senate Bill 307 on the lines currently).