Marijuana
Cash, cleanliness, black market are biggest worries on legal weed anniversary
If money is a curse, there’s a powerful hex over Nevada’s fledgling cannabis industry. Barely a year old and the legal weed business is smashing projections for sales ($433.5 million in the ten months reported so far) and tax revenue (projected at $50 million for the year, revenue has reached $55.5 million after ten reported […]
Is the Green rush leaving women and minorities behind?
How do you create equity in the cannabis industry so people of color, low-income communities and those disenfranchised by marijuana laws can benefit from a multimillion-dollar business? A year into recreational sales bringing new employment and business opportunities to the state, Nevada is still trying to answer that question. “In my opinion, (the state) […]
Are job drug tests for weed on the way out?
Nevadans and our visitors love legal marijuana. Sales are topping $40 million a month and tax revenue will far exceed the projected $50 million for the first year. That’s a lot of people smoking weed, eating edibles and vaping concentrates. Twenty percent of Americans now live in a state where marijuana is legal and […]
Weed legal, but can still separate families
Smoking marijuana cost Las Vegan Frederica Ballard what she says she prizes most – her two youngest children. “My children were stolen and that’s not sour grapes. It’s the absolute truth. I didn’t really believe that this kind of thing happened either until it happened to me,” she says. “I was raised a Christian in […]