At the Nevada Legislature, however, it s not about celebration, but policy.
This session, lawmakers are looking at a number of bills to further address both the complex challenges and opportunities that legalized cannabis present. Bills include measures on how best to police stoned driving and whether to permit pot lounges and events.
Here s a rundown of the bills currently on the table:
Pot lounges
Under current Nevada law, people can buy marijuana products, but they can only consume them in a private residence. This puts tourists in a particularly difficult position since they can t legally consume products in hotels, or elsewhere.
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nsumption lounges and other public spaces. We might have forgotten what it feels like to get together, but cannabis advocates haven’t. Two new bills have been introduced to the Nevada Assembly that would legalize social consumption in public places.
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Assembly Bill 341, introduced by Rep. Steve Yeager, would legalize (and regulate) cannabis consumption lounges. Additionally, AB322 would allow for the sale and consumption of cannabis at live events. This one has three primary sponsors and five co-sponsors, so it seems to be popular.
Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom would like to see even more permissive public consumption laws. “I think we’re ready to really blow the doors off this thing,” Segerblom says. “If we do soon, we can be the marijuana capital of the world.”
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Nevada Esports bill aims to draw, oversee video competitions
March 17, 2021 GMT
RENO, Nev. (AP) A Nevada lawmaker wants the state Legislature to create a sanctioning body modeled after the Nevada Athletic Commission to regulate Esports games that pit video players and teams against each other for money and championships.
Republican state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer told the Reno Gazette Journal in a story published Tuesday that the creation of a state oversight body could help attract events and boost tourism in Las Vegas and northern Nevada.
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“That’s the hope,” he said, pointing to Athletic Commission regulation of mixed martial arts. “That partnership with those events really helped that industry explode and grow to what it is today.”
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