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Nevada cracking door to marijuana tourism

Nevada cracking door to marijuana tourism

Starting early next year, tourists with a medical marijuana card from their home state can buy pot while visiting Las Vegas and other Nevada cities.

A handful of other states offer similar reciprocity, including Rhode Island and Maine, but Nevada is the first major tourist-destination state to honor other states' systems, industry experts say. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority estimates that nearly 40 million people visit Sin City annually.
"It is a city of recreation, the city that invented the $5,000 bottle of vodka," said Derek Peterson, CEO of Terra Tech, which has secured eight Nevada dispensary licenses. "It's the adult playground in the United States. That's Las Vegas' model."

The decision by state lawmakers to let tourists buy pot legally 

while visiting Nevada further opens the doors to marijuana tourism across the country. Colorado and Washington state already allow anyone to buy small amounts of pot, and at least one study has shown tourism interest in Colorado has skyrocketed since recreational sales began Jan. 1. Alaska and Oregon in the fall election legalized recreational marijuana sales and use, and Washington, D.C., legalized possession.
"I think it's going to be fantastic for the industry and the visitors," said Leslie Bocskor, a marijuana investor and founding chairman of the Nevada Cannabis Industry Association. "It's a step to treat this just a little more reasonably, to deal with it in a way that makes common sense."
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have versions of medical marijuana programs, under which people with a doctor's recommendation can buy pot to relieve conditions ranging from chronic pain to glaucoma and HIV/AIDS.


Knowing exactly how many Americans have medical marijuana cards is difficult: Some states, such as California, lack a centralized database of users. Colorado maintains precise numbers, however, with more than 115,000 people possessing medical marijuana cards. Of those, 66% are men, the average age is 42, and 94% of users list severe pain as their reason for using marijuana, according to state statistics.
All of those people, however, are violating federal law. And it remains illegal to take marijuana outside the state in which it was bought. In Colorado, TSA security screeners don't specifically look for marijuana, but they will prompt flyers to throw it away if they find it in carry-on bags.


Nevada's law specifies that anyone who presents a medical marijuana card or recommendation will be allowed to buy pot, but lacks any sort of centralized tracking system to check the card's validity. Nevada this fall began issuing licenses to its first medical marijuana stores, which are expected to open sometime in the spring.
Industry workers say adults should be trusted to make their own decisions — after all, no one on the Vegas strip checks a central federal database before selling alcohol to people from other states.
"A lot of people who are traveling, they may not want to fly with their meds, so there's an attractiveness to the reciprocity," Peterson said. "I don't know it will drive traffic that much, but it's a darn good excuse."

Official Bob Marley Weed Will Be For Sale Next Year

The family of reggae superstar Bob Marley 

whose public embrace of marijuana made him synonymous with cannabis culture, has joined a private equity firm to launch the first global consumer marijuana brand.
Marley Natural products will begin appearing in shops located in countries and U.S. states where marijuana is legally sold in late 2015, the Marley family and Privateer Holdings announced Tuesday.
“If you were to try and pick one person in the history of the world associated with this product, it would be Bob Marley," Brendan Kennedy, CEO of Privateer Holdings, told The Huffington Post. “Everyone has a little Bob Marley on their playlist and that’s different than anything else out there in this market.”

The new marijuana company will have a suite of products 

that include heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains said to be similar to the ones Marley consumed. “Bob’s favorite strains were the strains that were prevalent in Jamaica historically like lambsbread, pineapple skunk, and some others … that he used to get from Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, in Jamaica,” Kennedy said.
Marley Natural also will feature cannabis-infused and hemp-infused lotions and balms, as as well as accessories for storage and consumption of marijuana.
Kennedy said that Marley Natural will feature recreational and medical marijuana products, depending on local laws, because of Marley’s deep beliefs that cannabis use is a natural and positive part of life that helped to produce “inner-peace and creativity” for the artist.
“Creative inspiration was everything for my father -- it was like breathing or life to him,” Marley’s daughter Cedella said in an interview for the brand’s launch. “Every time he smoked, he was inspired and an open mind was the open door for his creative inspiration. He thought the herb was actually a gift.”
Cedella Marley, along with Bob Marley’s son Rohan and wife Rita, are partners in the Marley Natural brand with Privateer.

Martin: Support veterans by backing medical marijuana

Martin directs the drug policy program at Rice University's Baker Institute. 

How can we show gratitude for the men and women in the armed forces who have risked or given their lives to gain and preserve the precious gifts of freedom we enjoy? We can say, "Welcome home" or "Thank you for your service." We can announce with a bumper sticker that we "Support Our Troops" or contribute to the Wounded Warrior Project. We can pay a tab in a restaurant or give up a business-class seat on a flight. We can attend parades or special observances and applaud with genuine feeling when veterans are introduced at the halftime of a football game. To this list of worthy acts, let me add another: We can support the right of warriors to treat their wounds, both physical and mental, with therapeutic cannabis, or medical marijuana.
Of the 2.6 million U.S. service members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, an estimated 1 million suffered injuries in those wars. Cannabis cannot restore missing limbs or heal skin scarred by fire, but it can help physically and psychologically wounded veterans live a more normal life, as large and increasing numbers have discovered. It can be effective in dealing with chronic pain, reducing inflammation and depression, and combating the complex terrors of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. In the process, it can prevent suicide.

A 2012 study by the Department of Veterans Affairs 

 reported that 22 veterans end their own lives every day. That's one every 65 minutes. As shocking as that widely reported statistic is, the true figure is certainly much higher. States (including Texas) with 60 percent of the nation's population and more than 8 million veterans did not submit data in time to be counted. The great majority of these self-inflicted deaths can confidently be attributed to PTSD, from which troubled vets had found no other exit. The major treatment options offered by VA doctors include opioid painkillers, antidepressants and sleeping pills, which veterans repeatedly describe as being "handed out like Skittles" and leaving them feeling like "pilled-up zombies."
While researching this topic for a magazine article earlier this year, I heard men and women tell of how cannabis offers blessed relief from pain and the psychological torture of PTSD. Moreover, instead of serving as a "gateway" to harder drugs, it has provided them with an exit from the more addictive and dangerous alcohol and prescription drugs.
Israeli scientists who pioneered the study of cannabis have discovered what they call the endocannabinoid system, consisting of chemicals - specifically, cannabis - that our bodies produce and cannabinoid receptors in the brain and elsewhere in the central nervous system that make use of these chemicals. These play a role in the stimulation, increase, and extinction of such behaviors and responses as appetite, aggression, sociability, pain, stress, anxiety, memory and sleep.
When functioning properly, the body manufactures its own cannabis to help keep us on an even keel. But when the internal system is inadequate to deal with the terrors and anxiety of war or other trauma such as rape or natural disaster, external cannabis can provide a needed booster to bring things back into balance.
Despite frustrating roadblocks to cannabis research in the United States, scientific evidence of the drug's medical efficacy is growing rapidly. A clinical study published in the March issue of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs found that patients in the medical marijuana system in New Mexico experienced a 75 percent reduction in the major symptoms of PTSD.
Most Americans, including 77 percent of Texans, believe cannabis should be available for therapeutic purposes. Already, 23 states and the District of Columbia have some system that makes that possible and the VA permits its use in those states. Unfortunately, when veterans use this manifestly beneficial drug in Texas, they commit a crime and can lose their VA benefits.
Therapeutic cannabis bills will come before the Texas Legislature in 2015. Tired of being branded as criminals for their use of a plant that brings relief from physical and psychological injuries suffered in service of their country, veterans are mobilizing to support those bills. Consider these bills and, if you find they have merit, contact your representatives to tell them that. We owe our soldiers every effective tool available to help them regain the lives they had prior to their service. It is the right thing to do and their cause is just.

Oregon growers gear up for Green Rush of legal marijuana

It will be nearly two years before Oregonians can drop by the corner marijuana store to pick up some bud for the weekend, but growers are already gearing up to meet the increased demand of the coming Green Rush.

Measure 91, enacted by voters this week, will let people possess and grow their own marijuana starting in July 2015.

But the retail side doesn't start to kick in until January 2016. Oregon Liquor Control Board Chairman Rob Patridge says it will take months from then to issue licenses and grow the first legal crops that can be sold through retail outlets.

Medical marijuana grower Norris Monson in Portland plans to expand operations and expects competition from Colorado and California growers coming to Oregon to tap the new market.

Patridge will go to the Emergency Board of the Legislature in early December to ask for a budget to hire staff and pay for operations. He plans to spend the first three months of 2015 with the commission traveling around Oregon to listen to people in the marijuana industry, law enforcement, local government and citizens on what they would like to see in rules governing retail sales of recreational marijuana. The rules will govern how marijuana can be packaged and marketed.

HOW WILL THE LAW UNFOLD?

The Control, Regulation, and Taxation of Marijuana and Industrial Hemp Act goes into effect Dec. 4, but implementation comes in three steps. On July 1, 2015, people can possess an ounce of pot in public and up to 8 ounces at home. They can grow up to four plants at home. On Jan. 4, 2016, the commission starts taking license applications. It is likely to take several months for them to be processed. Patridge said marijuana offered for retail sale will have to be grown from scratch once a license is secured, so there will be no offering stockpiled marijuana. With a three-month growing cycle, it will likely be sometime in the last half of 2016 before the first shops will be able to offer legal recreational marijuana for sale.

WHO CAN BUY MARIJUANA?

Anyone 21 years or older.

WHO CAN GET A LICENSE?

Licenses will be issued for up to one year at a time for specific locations, and will cover growing, processing, wholesaling and retail sales. Many growers plan to get all four, so they can control their supplies and markets. There is a non-refundable application fee of $250 for each one. The license costs $1,000. The commission can refuse to grant a license to anyone with a criminal record, not of good reputation and moral character, who has not maintained a sanitary establishment, or cannot understand the law. It can also refuse a license if it feels there are already enough to serve a specific area. Licenses are open to residents of other states, and investment can come from out of state. Cities and counties that want to keep out growers and retailers have to get voter approval.

HOW WILL IT BE TAXED?

Measure 91 gives the state sole authority to tax marijuana, at a rate of $35 per ounce of bud, $10 per ounce of leaves, and $5 for each immature plant. The tax is levied once at the producer level. Cities and counties are barred from imposing their own taxes, but because so many want to cash in, the issue may go to court or the Legislature.

WILL THERE BE A GREEN RUSH?

Portland medical marijuana grower Norris Monson of O.penVAPE has been hearing murmurings for some time of people securing warehouse space to grow marijuana in the Portland area. Southwestern Oregon medical marijuana grower Karen Sprague, CEO of The CO2 Company, has been looking for land to expand operations, and knows others have been, too. They both expect Portland and southwestern Oregon to continue to be the big pot growing locales - with indoor-grown in Portland, and outdoor-grown in southwestern Oregon. They would not be surprised to see greenhouse growers establishing in the Columbia Gorge in The Dalles, where there is lots of sunshine and cheap electricity. Monson expects people with good business plans and experience will succeed, while those with get-rich-quick dreams will fail, because as the supply increases, prices and profit margins will fall.

HOW WILL PRICES BE AFFECTED?

State taxes will add $560 to the price of a pound of marijuana buds, but increased supply is likely to bring prices down. Medical marijuana in Oregon was selling for $2,000 to $2,400 a pound in August, but newly harvested outdoor-grown pot is selling for $1,200 to $1,600 a pound, driving down overall prices, Monson said. By contrast, Washington retail pot is selling for about $4,000 a pound, because it is taxed at a higher rate.

WILL MEDICAL MARIJUANA SURVIVE?

It is hard to know at this point. People have to pay the state $200 for a medical marijuana card, and visit a doctor to authorize the card. Monson said as recreational marijuana prices fall, the advantage to having a medical marijuana card may go up in smoke. Sprague said they are producing marijuana with compounds that have health benefits, but without THC that gets you high, and hope to market that through retail outlets as well as medical marijuana dispensaries.

License OK'd for Boston's first pot shop

One of the state's coveted medical marijuana licenses has been approved

  

  for Milk Street in the heart of the Financial District at the site of a former bank, public health officials announced today.

The Department of Public Health announced four additional Registered Marijuana Dispensaries (RMDs) have been approved to advance to the "Inspection Phase" -- including Patriot Care Corp. for its pot shop at 21 Milk St.
The shop, the company said, will be open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“I am pleased with the steady progress we are making and expect the first dispensaries to open later this winter,” said Medical Use of Marijuana Program Executive Director Karen van Unen. “By expanding access into these additional counties, we are promoting our goals of patient access and public safety across the Commonwealth.”

Those dispensaries are:

• Coastal Compassion, Inc. in Fairhaven
• Mass Medicum Corp. in Taunton
• Patriot Care Corp. in Boston and Greenfield