Pubdate: Thu, 03 Apr 2014
Source: Reno News & Review (NV)
Copyright: 2014, Chico Community Publishing, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2524
Author: Dennis Myers

MEDICAL WATCH

Statewide regulations covering medical marijuana dispensaries took
effect on April 1, clearing the way for local governments to provide
for dispensaries within their jurisdictions.

City staffers in Sparks are preparing language for the Sparks City
Council to use in dealing with medical marijuana dispensaries in the
Rail City. The step doesn't commit the council to approving
dispensaries, however.

In Nye County, the county commission approved zoning for dispensaries
within Pahrump, but then ended up banning them by a 4 to 1 vote.
Meanwhile, a planned "High Desert Cup Music and Cannabis Expo,"
portrayed by its organizers as championing medical marijuana, was
canceled when they could not raise all the needed funding. It would
have taken place in Petrack Park in Pahrump.

Meanwhile, a benchmark of sorts was reached in Nevada dispensary news-
it made the Wall Street Journal, which reported on a financial
transaction involving Nevada ("IDS Industries Announces PMG
Partnership With Nevada Cannabis Processor," WSJ, March 31). The
coverage was the result of this convoluted announcement from IDS: "IDS
Industries, Inc. (OTCQB: IDST) announced today that its wholly-owned
subsidiary, Propel Management Group, Inc. (PMG) has contracted with
Aja Cannafacturing (AJA), a Nevada company, along with Black and
LoBello, a highly respected and nationally renowned law firm, to
develop and launch of one of the first licensed medical marijuana
processors in the state of Nevada."

Comedian Bill Maher commented to a Las Vegas columnist on that city's
dragging its feed on dispensaries: "That's so typical of Las Vegas.
Yes, you can go 20 minutes outside the city and get a whore. That's
completely legal, but no pot."

The Las Vegas City Council last month approved dispensaries, but
extended a moratorium on accepting applications to July. Surrounding
Clark County, however, moved ahead with licensing of dispensaries,
though it is also requiring that the plant sold be grown locally, a
requirement that prompted two pro-dispensary county commissioners to
vote against the county ordinance.

Growing marijuana, in fact, is becoming a bigger issue as dispensaries
move forward. In Pahrump, grow facilities are being allowed even as
dispensaries are banned.  
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