Pubdate: Thu, 19 Jun 2014
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)
Copyright: 2014 Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/233
Author: Jane Ann Morrison
Page: 4B
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

CITY SETTING UP SERIES OF STEPS ON MEDICAL POT

Taking a slow but steady approach, the city of Las Vegas has a 
tentative plan to handle applications for medical marijuana 
establishments in its own fashion. Not the way Clark County did it. 
Not the way Henderson is doing it. Not the way North Las Vegas is 
expected to do it.

"The tentative plan is to have special use permits before the 
Planning Commission with meetings in the month of September," 
Planning Director Flinn Fagg said Wednesday. "Then it would be 
forward to the City Council in October. It would be about the same 
time the state will be reviewing it."

Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Department of Planning will accept land use 
and licensing applications between July 8 and July 17 and has 
mandated that anyone who submits an application must attend a 
workshop. More information is on the city's website at 
www.lasvegasnevada. gov/medicalmarijuana.

The county skipped its Planning Commission and left the decisions to 
county commissioners.

Henderson is just forwarding applications to the state to sort them 
out and make decisions, without input from the Henderson council.

The state will accept applications from Aug. 5-18 and take up to 90 
days to review them. Henderson has been approved for five 
dispensaries by Clark County but will send all preliminary suitable 
applications to the state.

Clark County has moved the quickest on the selection process, culling 
its recommendations for dispensaries to 18. On Tuesday, commissioners 
approved 101 applications from medical marijuana developers hoping to 
open production, cultivation and laboratory facilities under the 
county's jurisdiction.

They approved 58 permits for cultivation facilities, 38 permits for 
production facilities and five permits for testing labs.
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