Las Vegas: Medical marijuana dispensary interviews job candidates

The first stocked medical marijuana dispensary in Las Vegas is preparing to open its doors.

Releaf Dispensary on Monday interviewed potential employees. About a thousand people applied for 40 available positions.

Applicant Thomas Orton admitted that he sold illegally for most of his life. Now he wants to do things the right way.

“I’ve been an advocate of its abilities and properties from probably my early 20s,” Orton said.

Orton chose to move with his wife from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas.

“We kind of moved here so I could be here. It’s just that we moved here a year and a half ago and we thought that the process would be pretty close to where it is now,” he said.

As Releaf Dispensary’s owners await plants and flowers, federal restrictions are never far from their minds. Those are something Rep. Dina Titus, who attended Monday’s job fair, said...

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