Las Vegas Planning Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

The Las Vegas City Council is laying the groundwork for medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits.

The council members directed staff to draft regulations for people to set up medical marijuana businesses, including growing, testing and cultivating the drug for medical purposes.

Nevada voters approved medical marijuana in 2000, but that law provided no legal way for patients to obtain the drug except to grow it themselves.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.