Leaders of Nevada’s emerging marijuana industry say there are few consumable substances watched more closely than the vegetation that goes into cannabis products.

Over the last decade, as nearly 25 states have authorized the use of marijuana in some form, several jurisdictions have imposed rules that require the substance be tracked from seed to sale. For regulators and sellers, it's a daunting process for a plant that often changes hands and takes on many forms before it becomes a final product — a joint, an edible, a topical cream, etc.

To ease data collection, states and marijuana establishments have turned to niche software providers who have made a business out of organizing data from harvest site to dispensary.

(TNS) -- Leaders of Nevada’s emerging marijuana industry say there are few consumable substances watched more closely than the vegetation that goes into cannabis products.

MassRoots, Inc. (OTCQB:MSRT), one of the largest and fastest growing technology platforms for the cannabis industry, will be presenting on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this Friday, January 8, 2016 as part of the semi-finals for the Extreme Tech Challenge.

As I look back on the calendar year, one significant tipping point in 2015 was the focus on experimental design in the cannabis market that most didn’t expect to happen so soon or so respectfully.

It is the merging of traditionally trained scientist and the incumbent practitioners.

My hypothesis has been this: If more open and respectful discussions between “classically trained scientists” and “cannabis incumbent practitioners” can occur, then creative discoveries will exponentially occur.

In November the United States Postal Service sent a memo to newspaper companies in the Portland, Oregon district stating that it would not deliver newspapers and other publications if the publications included advertising for the marijuana industry. Essentially USPS took the stance that since marijuana is illegal at the federal level, the promotion of those ‘illicit goods’ is illegal too, and USPS would not be participating in those promotions in any way.

The next time you think about spending some of your hard earned cash in The Venetian or Palazzo on the strip in Las Vegas, keep in mind you are funding the effort to keep marijuana illegal.

Sheldon Adelson, owner of both Vegas landmarks along with a giant casino in Macau and another in Pennsylvania is worth an estimated $28.5 Billon. So his purchase of the Las Vegas Review Journal for $140 million must've seemed like a deal, especially because his goal is to use the publication's clout to campaign against marijuana legalization.

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli Jr., issued a statement Wednesday advising the Supreme Court not to hear a lawsuit Nebraska and Oklahoma filed against Colorado’s marijuana legalization law last December.

We’ve already taken a look at the freshly amended California legalization initiative from Napster billionaire Sean Parker. With those 35,000+ words out of the way, today let’s look at the far shorter 5,000+ words of Marijuana Policy Project’s (MPP) Nevada marijuana legalization initiative, marketed under the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CRMLA). It is already on the ballot for 2016 in Nevada; this will be voted on come November 8.

LAUGHLIN — The first medical marijuana dispensary in Laughlin opened quietly Saturday, nearly 16 years after Nevada voters approved the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. 

Nevada Medical Marijuana, located in a former bank building at 1975 Casino Drive, is one of only a handful of retail outlets that have opened for business in Nevada since the Legislature enacted regulations two years ago regarding growth, production and retail sale of medicinal marijuana. Its sister facility in Henderson also opened for business Saturday.

At opening, four strains of smokeable product were available for purchase.