Pubdate: Wed, 23 Apr 2014
Source: Merced Sun-Star (CA)
Copyright: 2014 Merced Sun-Star
Contact: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/284
Website: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2546
Note: from the Associated Press

178 APPLICATIONS FOR CLARK CO. MEDI-POT BUSINESSES

LAS VEGAS - Officials have received at least 178 applications from
people seeking to start medical marijuana-related businesses in Clark
County.

The Clark County Business License Department announced the totals 90
minutes before a 5 p.m. Tuesday submission deadline.

The number includes 60 applications related to cultivation, 77 in the
dispensary category, one in the laboratory category and 40 in production.

Clark County became the first municipality in southern Nevada to
accept applications for marijuana-related businesses after approving
regulations last month.

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.

Legislators passed a law in 2013 that sets up a framework for
distributing medical marijuana, although it allows cities and counties
to impose moratoriums.
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