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Two companies and the University of Nevada, Reno will offer a scholarship to the university’s online cannabis education program. Two companies in the cannabis space, Green Flower and Curaleaf, announced in an August 8 press release that they are partnering with the University of Nevada, Reno to

The first cannabis lounges in Nevada will open as soon as this fall. Tuesday, a conditional license was given to the first independent consumption lounge in the state by the Cannabis Compliance Board. Last fall, the CCB awarded prospective licenses for 40 cannabis consumption lounges. Last month

Cannabis regulators in Nevada have issued the state’s first three conditional licenses for cannabis consumption lounges. Visitors to Las Vegas will soon have places to legally smoke weed as Nevada regulators have issued the state’s first three conditional licenses for cannabis consumption lounges

Senate Bill 277 has been approved by Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo that makes a number of reforms to the state’s cannabis laws. A major task included in the Bill is for the Cannabis Advisory Commission to conduct a review of the potential implications for the cannabis industry if cannabis was removed

Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo last week approved a bill that makes several reforms to the state’s marijuana laws, including more than doubling the limit on adult-use cannabis possession and purchases. The omnibus measure, Senate Bill 277, was signed by the Republican governor on May 14, according to

Multi-Agency operation targets illegal Cannabis grow in rural Smartsville. Smartsville - The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit, along with the Nevada County Code Enforcement Department, California Fish and Wildlife, and Army National Guard, executed a search warrant at an

Two days before The Lexi Hotel on Sahara Avenue was scheduled to open to guests and a day before people were invited to an opening reception, Elevations Hotels and Resorts CEO Alex Rizk was nervous. Much of the old furniture that was used in the Artisan Hotel, the former name of the 64-room property

Lexi, Las Vegas’ first cannabis-friendly hotel, has opened. Located off West Sahara Avenue a mile west of the Strip, the former Artisan Hotel has gone through a $3-plus million renovation of all its hotel rooms, along with the lobby, bar, lounge and (toptional) pool. Whereas purchasing marijuana is

LAS VEGAS - There are questions about whether marijuana is legal inside hotel rooms at a resort that calls itself the first cannabis-friendly hotel in Las Vegas. The Lexi opens on Friday, June 2, and its owner Elevation Hotels and Resorts stated in a press release in January that the entire fourth

You don’t need to be high to enjoy Ben Zabin’s weed-themed magic show, Smokus Pocus, but if you do arrive baked, rest assured you won’t be alone. “There’s definitely a lot of people there that are high … [but] I’ve worked really hard to make the show just as much fun for somebody who’s never smoked

LAS VEGAS - Nevada’s Democratic Senators, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, have both signed onto the federal SAFE Banking Act in an effort to finally overhaul federal banking restrictions on cannabis businesses. The bill had a hearing in the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Nevada County residents who want more legal cannabis retail businesses in unincorporated areas of the county may gain more equitable access to dispensaries. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors approved an application from the Department of Cannabis Control that if approved would allow for Phase I