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Sales of recreational marijuana have blown past expectations in Nevada, threatening to leave some dispensaries with empty shelves. After Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed a statement of emergency in the first week of legal sales, regulators are looking to bolster the supply chain.
The Nevada Tax Commission is meeting Thursday to determine whether the state has enough wholesale marijuana distributors; it could also adopt emergency regulations.
"Right now, only companies that are also licensed to distribute liquor in Nevada are able to bring marijuana to dispensaries," Nevada Public Radio's Casey Morell reports for NPR's Newscast unit. "The dispensaries say that's why they're running out of the drug."
Nevada opened the retail pot market on July 1. The state has 47 licensed stores, and in the first weekend of sales, "well over 40,000 retail transactions" were carried out, tax officials say. Some retailers said they racked up twice as many sales as they had estimated — and they also reported a dire need for new deliveries to restock their shelves.
At least seven wholesale liquor dealers have applied to become marijuana distributors — but the tax department has said that as of July 5, "no wholesale liquor dealer has met the application requirements to receive a marijuana distributor license."
Nevada tax officials expect pot sales to generate $100 million in revenue over the next two years. In the agency's statement of emergency, the Taxation Department's executive director, Deonne Contine, said changes are needed both to prevent marijuana customers from reverting to the black market and to support the new businesses that have sprung up around legal recreational sales, opening shops and hiring workers.
im going to las vegas next month, hopefully the stores wont be out of stock.
can you buy weed edibles too?, i don't like smoking.
>>133378009
I believe so.
>>133377510
DUDE
>>133377510
WEED
The important question is whether potheads should get their necks stretched on the Day of the Rope.
>spoiler the answer is yes
>>133380583
Believing in the day of Rope is like Believing in Sky Daddy around here. /pol/ can't even organize a proper circle-jerk
>>133379787
What 4chan 4chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Cheers
>>133377510
Good, they will be able to add even more tax revenue to their budget.
Hating weed on its own is probably the most unamerican cuck shit i have ever heard. Literally the same as saying hunting on your own land is bad.
>>133377510
bump
>>133382912
I think the people that are "stoners" are very unpleasant and telling them that their drug should be banned is hilarious because they get so pissy about it. People don't like blatant alcoholics either. I really don't see why it should be banned though honestly.
>>133377510
bump