Jacob Redmond
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Southern Nevada has taken a big step to get medical marijuana to patients.
The first lab in Clark County is ready to start testing the quality of marijuana before it's distributed to dispensaries where residents with medical marijuana cards can by the product.
But a major obstacle remains. There's very little marijuana to test.
For patients like Raquel Wilson, the availability of medical marijuana cannot come too soon.
Wilson loves to dance and sing. She was as full of life as any teen.
A year ago, Wilson started feeling sick. A visit to a doctor led to a diagnosis: a Stage 4 cancerous brain tumor
"My mind tells me to be careful, because not everything is miraculous." Wilson says.
With the hope that it will shrink the tumor, medical marijuana is her last resort.
"No human should go through this," she says.
After two surgeries and a seizure, Wilson's doctors say they cannot help her anymore.
"Oh, it's the scariest thing of my life," says Wilson's mother, Jenny, who lives in Utah. "To have seen her experience that seizure and not know if she was going to make it."
The experience convinced Jenny that she should cross the border into Nevada with the hope that her daughter can get help from Cannabis.
But numerous delays in licensing cultivation facilities, labs and dispensaries have made it hard to get the medicine Wilson needs.
With Southern Nevada's first medical marijuana lab now open, we should be seeing marijuana buds being tested in a Petri dish, but we don't.
But why no marijuana in a marijuana lab? Because cultivators have not grown it yet.
DB Labs director Savino Sguera says marijuana cultivators have yet to open a facility in Southern Nevada and the labs cannot test plants grown by patients.
"According to the law, we could only test marijuana that was grown in a medical marijuana establishment," Sguera says.
As DB Labs waits for cannabis to test and dispensaries wait for tested marijuana to stop their shelves, Raquel Wilson and her mom just want to live a normal life again.
The state just recently gave approval to cultivators to begin planting.
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The first lab in Clark County is ready to start testing the quality of marijuana before it's distributed to dispensaries where residents with medical marijuana cards can by the product.
But a major obstacle remains. There's very little marijuana to test.
For patients like Raquel Wilson, the availability of medical marijuana cannot come too soon.
Wilson loves to dance and sing. She was as full of life as any teen.
A year ago, Wilson started feeling sick. A visit to a doctor led to a diagnosis: a Stage 4 cancerous brain tumor
"My mind tells me to be careful, because not everything is miraculous." Wilson says.
With the hope that it will shrink the tumor, medical marijuana is her last resort.
"No human should go through this," she says.
After two surgeries and a seizure, Wilson's doctors say they cannot help her anymore.
"Oh, it's the scariest thing of my life," says Wilson's mother, Jenny, who lives in Utah. "To have seen her experience that seizure and not know if she was going to make it."
The experience convinced Jenny that she should cross the border into Nevada with the hope that her daughter can get help from Cannabis.
But numerous delays in licensing cultivation facilities, labs and dispensaries have made it hard to get the medicine Wilson needs.
With Southern Nevada's first medical marijuana lab now open, we should be seeing marijuana buds being tested in a Petri dish, but we don't.
But why no marijuana in a marijuana lab? Because cultivators have not grown it yet.
DB Labs director Savino Sguera says marijuana cultivators have yet to open a facility in Southern Nevada and the labs cannot test plants grown by patients.
"According to the law, we could only test marijuana that was grown in a medical marijuana establishment," Sguera says.
As DB Labs waits for cannabis to test and dispensaries wait for tested marijuana to stop their shelves, Raquel Wilson and her mom just want to live a normal life again.
The state just recently gave approval to cultivators to begin planting.
News Moderator: Jacob Redmond 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: For patients needing medical marijuana, sales of the product cannot come soon enough - News3LV
Author: Fatima Rahmatullah
Contact: frahmatullah@mynews3.com
Photo Credit: None Found
Website: News 3 KSNV - Las Vegas TV News | Live Newscasts | Traffic | Weather | Sports - News3LV
