Senator lays out plan to authorize medical marijuana dispensaries

Published Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 | 11:22 a.m.

Updated Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 | 11:46 a.m.

Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, wants Nevada to authorize medical marijuana dispensaries. The dispensaries would provide an easy avenue for the approximately 3,600 current medical marijuana permit holders to purchase medical marijuana in a transparent and legal manner, he said. “We’re going to have places you can go with a card where you can legally purchase marijuana,” Segerblom said. “It’ll be a for-profit. It won’t be a co-op. It won’t be run by the government … It’ll be taxed and the revenue will be used to do something good. Those are the details we haven’t gotten to yet.” His bill ...

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By KillerB

Feb. 22, 2013

7:19 p.m.

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"The dispensaries would provide an easy avenue for the approximately 3,600 current medical marijuana permit holders to purchase medical marijuana in a transparent and legal manner, he said."

Considering We the people first instructed the legislature to do this in 1998, how many have suffered because they haven't?? Have a look @ http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVConst...

"Tobacco, hemp, flax and cotton, are staple commodities." -- from Thomas Jefferson "The Works," vol. 3 (Notes on Virginia I, Correspondence 1780-1782), "A Notice Of The Mines And Other Subterraneous Riches; Its Trees, Plants, Fruits, &C."
By chuck333

Feb. 23, 2013

7:02 a.m.

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Marijuana should be legalized and taxed.
By KillerB

Feb. 23, 2013

7:55 a.m.

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"Marijuana should be legalized and taxed."

chuck333 -- no, it should be decriminalized. Big difference. The proof of how utterly stupid anti-marijuana laws are is that hemp itself -- a plant arguably being the most beneficial on the planet -- is equally criminalized.

"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically." -- Henry David Thoreau 1849 "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"