Nevada: Two years after getting green light, why hasn’t marijuana industry sparked to life?

In November 2014, Joe LaMarca invited media members for a sneak preview of what he hoped would be the first dispensary in Nevada to begin legally selling medical marijuana to patients.

Construction had just begun, with workers tearing up floors, putting in new walls and installing security systems that would turn the building, located next to a bar and a dentist's office in a shopping center near Jones Boulevard and Robindale Road, into a Fort Knox of pot.

Ever optimistic, LaMarca anticipated the store, dubbed Euphoria Wellness, would be open to patients in early January.

Seven months later, construction has been completed, inspections passed and employees hired. LaMarca even invited the public to tour the dispensary and see the cases where medical marijuana would soon be displayed.

But still, not a single gram of marijuana has been sold by Euphoria Wellness or any other dispensary in Nevada, despite it...

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