SPARKS, Nev. — Fifteen years after Nevadans voted to legalize it, medical marijuana was sold legally in the state for the first time Friday at a dispensary in a strip mall about 5 miles east of downtown Reno.

Dressed in polo shirts, tie-dyes and button-downs, about 75 people with medical marijuana cards lined up outside Silver State Relief, between a sub shop and pizza place in Sparks, to be among the first to buy as much as a half-ounce of pot for $195.

“It smells good in there,” said Dana Metz, 64, a retired General Motors worker who said he suffers from back pain, insomnia and anxiety. He was the first in line two hours before the doors opened just after 10 a.m.

Frustrated by months of delays, a medical marijuana dispensary is requesting internal Clark County records and threatening a lawsuit to get the store open.

Euphoria Wellness, on Jones Boulevard near Robindale Road, passed state and county inspections in April and has been ready to open since.

But the dispensary hasn’t been able to obtain marijuana because approved cultivation facilities have been slow to start and haven’t produced a viable batch.

LAS VEGAS -- DigiPath, Inc. (OTCBB and OTCQB: DIGP), the independent cannabis testing and media firm, has joined the Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Production (CRCP), a nationally focused industry standards and production protocols organization.

DigiPath and CRCP are currently collaborating with the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to address public health and safety issues related to the cannabis industry.

Dozens of medical marijuana businesses in Las Vegas could face delays in their opening dates. The state isn’t rethinking the law that legalized the growth and sale of cannabis for patients’ use. Rather, it’s having trouble filling bureaucratic posts responsible for signing off on the dispensaries' compliance with that law.

After two recent employee departures, there are currently no inspectors based in Southern Nevada. In the meantime, one based in Northern Nevada has been traveling south when needed. The state is currently working to fill those vacancies.

Members of the medical marijuana industry are raising concerns about the turnover.

GrowBLOX Sciences is Making Big Moves in Anticipation of Opening Nevada Cultivation Facility

LAS VEGAS, July 23, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GrowBLOX Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB:GBLX), a biopharmaceutical company with state-of-the-art technologies in plant biology and cultivation designed to produce consistent medicinal cannabis, today announced that over the course of the next few weeks certain changes in management personnel and operating procedures would soon be implemented in preparation for the commencement of cultivation operations through our majority-owned subsidiary, GB Sciences Nevada, LLC.

(GÖTEBORG, Sweden/SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 16, 2015) – Heliospectra, a world leader in intelligent lighting technologies for plant research and greenhouse cultivation, and American Cannabis Company, Inc., a full-service cannabis industry consultant and provider of proprietary and preferred products, have successfully sold one of the largest LED cultivation installations in the world to a Las Vegas,NV cannabis licensee.

WHITEFISH, MT / ACCESSWIRE / July 16, 2015 / There are many different ways to profit from the burgeoning cannabis industry, ranging from GrowBLOX Sciences Inc.'s (OTCQB: GBLX) growing solutions to Medbox Inc.'s (OTCQB: MDBX) dispensing technologies to Cannabis Science Inc.'s (OTCQB: CBIS) focus on the medicinal properties of the plant, but cannabis testing could be the most compelling.

Cannabis testing is expected to generate close to a billion dollars in revenue by 2020, according to a new report by GreenWave Advisors, a comprehensive independent research firm focused on the emerging legal cannabis industry.

Oregon-based cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensary operator also announces raise of $1.8 Million dollars to expand business operations.

PORTLAND, Ore., July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Attis Group, Inc. (ATTIS), an Oregon-based cannabis cultivator, processor and dispensary owner, has entered into an agreement with Las Vegas, Nevada firm Electrum Partners to help develop plans to expand ATTIS' business operations.