The Indy’s Nevada Policy Tracker is a guide to the storylines expected to make the biggest splash in the coming months.

Of more than 99 initial applicants, just a single state-regulated lounge is open. Experts say it's time to rethink the model.

While some are quite enthusiastic about the opportunity to simplify things, others consider the hefty price hike on the retail side a bit harder to swallow. And it’s easy to understand the concern in an industry that is currently struggling to compete against a tax-free illegal market.

Cannabis dispensary Planet 13 is buying a rival dispensary in the resort corridor for $6.9 million. A consultant said the deal would help in evaluating the value of the Las Vegas cannabis industry.

Six applicants seeking cannabis consumption lounge licenses under a category reserved for individuals convicted of crimes when marijuana was illegal were disqualified from the process.

The SAFER Banking Act, a new version of the SAFE Banking Act that passed the House seven times since 2019 but was never passed by the Senate, was again introduced in the Senate this year. The bill would allow legally operating cannabis businesses the same access to financial institutions that other legal businesses receive, from accounts to lines of credit to loans.

“Those folks who are licensed right now, they have frustrations with their regulator, they have frustrations with the illicit market … so that was our goal,” said Brett Scolari, who presented the bill.

Gov. Steve Sisolak is running for re-election in a tight race against his Republican challenger, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. Here is where he stands on a variety of policy issues.

Despite a slight year-to-year dip, Nevada’s legal cannabis industry still reported nearly $1 billion in taxable sales over the last fiscal year, with a sizable chunk transferred to the state’s education budget.

Even with the COVID pandemic waning, state tax officials told legislators this month that Nevadans have made what appear to be some permanent shifts in how they buy legal marijuana through pick-up and delivery modes.

Lawmakers ended the 81st session of the Legislature on Monday night passing dozens of high-profile measures but many others, including an effort to license midwives and a bill allowing casinos to prohibit firearms, failed to advance.

Marijuana business owners and board members in Nevada are disproportionately white and male, while the industry workforce is made up of a greater proportion of people of color, according to a new demographic report on the state’s cannabis industry.