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Marijuana isn't all fun and games in the eyes of the Nevada Gaming Commission. Though Nevada voters legalized recreational pot in last fall's November election, the five-member regulatory panel has publicly warned gaming companies to continue treating the drug as an illegal substance. With...

On July 1, 2017, Nevada will legalize the use and sale of recreational marijuana, which could be a catalyst for long-term gains for three marijuana stocks. We'll get to those three cannabis stocks in just a bit. But first, we wanted to make sure Money Morning readers know all the important...

Saturday, July 1. That's the day that adult recreational marijuana sales are set to begin in Nevada, when anyone over 21 can walk into a dispensary and make a purchase. And with temporary regulations in place and a series of related bills signed off on, all seems ready–or it did until about two...

Nevada lawmakers are on the last day of a session that became focused on disagreements over education savings accounts, capital improvements and a proposed marijuana tax. The education funding debate had lawmakers working to resolve budget uncertainty in the final days of the 2017 session...

Native American tribal governments in Nevada will now be able to negotiate directly with the governor's office on marijuana, thanks to legislation passed Friday. Senate Bill 375, which opens the door for legal negotiations on the use and sale of medical marijuana on tribal lands, also allows...

Only a month remains until Nevada is set to join a select number of states that can legally sell recreational marijuana. Barring any delays, up to one ounce of marijuana will be available for sale July 1 to those 21 and older as a result of Question 2 passing last fall. This will be the first...

A Douglas County attorney claims the Nevada Tax Commission violated open meeting law because marijuana and other words were absent from a recent meeting agenda. Jim Hartman, from Genoa, filed the complaint Wednesday with the Nevada attorney general's office. The complaint references the May 8...

Reclining leather seats, a 42-inch television screen and stencils of bright red marijuana leaves illuminate the back of 420 Tours' sport utility vehicle. The SUV, along with a 30-foot bus, are used by Nevada's first cannabis tour company, which takes people looking for a medical marijuana card...

Arizona, like some of the other 23 states with medical-marijuana laws, allows people with valid medical cards from other states to legally possess marijuana in Arizona, but they can't legally buy it at Arizona dispensaries. Nevada apparently is the only state that allows its dispensaries to...

Now that Nevada has the green light to move forward with its early start recreational marijuana program, it could set the national record for the fastest turnaround of retail reefer. In a rush for kush, the state is attempting to power forward with recreational marijuana sales in a mere...

Recreational marijuana sellers will be open for business on July 1–blazing speed when it comes to states' post-election legalization efforts. How did the home of Sin City do it? Something truly spectacular is happening right now in Nevada marijuana. That's not high-perbole, either. The...

Two members of Nevada’s congressional delegation signed onto cannabis-related legislation this week in a push to legitimize the emerging marijuana industry at the federal level. U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Rep. Dina Titus, both Democrats, co-sponsored bills that would remove federal...

In a tourism-driven state like Nevada, what is the benefit of legalizing marijuana if there is no place that tourists can legally smoke it? That question certainly must have come across the minds of those behind the legalization initiative approved by voters in November. Yet, as state Sen...

The vote was 6 to 1. A major hurdle for marijuana has been crossed. On Monday, the Nevada Tax Commission approved the temporary regulations allowing the sale of retail pot. The move clears the way for legal marijuana sales to begin as early as July 1. "If we wanted to have an early start...

Weighing in on how Nevada should test people for stoned driving, lawmakers advanced a measure to eliminate urine samples as a viable measure for police to show a driver to be impaired by marijuana. Under the bipartisan proposal, law enforcement officers would continue using blood tests to prove...

Officials are pushing forward with a bill legalizing pot clubs in Nevada, ignoring federal threats and rhetoric against marijuana that suggests a looming crackdown on state laws. Many states with liberal marijuana laws are stopping previous efforts to expand the scope of their laws, fearing it...

As marijuana states back off of social marijuana use for fear of inciting a federal crackdown, Nevada is bucking the trend and pushing ahead with pot clubs. Senate Bill 236, which would let local governments permit marijuana social clubs and other forms of public use currently outlawed, took one...

Clark County commissioners on Tuesday added two marijuana industry professionals as at-large members to the county's new marijuana advisory panel. Scott Sibley is a managing partner at the Nevada Holistic Medicine. Brian Padgett is an attorney and founding member of the Nevada Dispensary...

Las Vegas – Nevada officials say getting the state's retail marijuana industry started will cost about $14 million over the next two years. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Department of Taxation Director Deonne Contine said Thursday that most of that money will be used to pay...

Proponents of a bill to change forensics tests for drivers suspected of being high on marijuana told the Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee on Friday that the proposed law is more scientifically accurate. Assembly Bill 135 would eliminate urine tests for marijuana and change the marijuana...