LAS VEGAS – Starting early next year, tourists with a medical marijuana card from their home state can buy pot while visiting Las Vegas and other Nevada cities.
A handful of other states offer similar reciprocity, including Rhode Island and Maine, but Nevada is the first major tourist-destination state to honor other states' systems, industry experts say. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority estimates that nearly 40 million people visit Sin City annually.
"It is a city of recreation, the city that invented the $5,000 bottle of vodka," said Derek Peterson, CEO of Terra Tech, which has secured eight Nevada dispensary licenses. "It's the adult playground in the United States. That's Las Vegas' model."
