Recreational marijuana in Las Vegas will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week starting today. Approved by the city council earlier this week, Oasis Cannabis is the first marijuana dispensary in Sin City with no closing time.
Per the city’s ordinance, all marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, Nevada, have to close at 3 a.m. and cannot re-open until 6 a.m. However, language in the rule allows the city council to review requests for expanded hours on a case-by-case basis.
Every morning at 3 a.m., Oasis had to rush buying customers out of the door. At 6 a.m., buyers lined up around the block waiting to get in. With other local businesses open 24 hours, the cannabis dispensary’s co-founder, Benjamin Sillitoe, asked the city for expanded hours.
“We are on Industrial Road,” Sillitoe told the Las Vegas Sun. “There are 24-hour businesses all around us. … It makes sense operationally.”
While Oasis is the first Las Vegas dispensary to apply and receive approval for 24-hour operations, the city expects more requests to follow. Currently, there are nine other cannabis dispensaries within the city limits, and officials predict they will be next.
“We suspect now that one dispensary has [received approval], others will come forward,” said Las Vegas business licensing manager Mary McElhone, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
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