***Independent Laboratory Advisory Committee
I had the privilege of being chosen to sit on the Nevada Independent Laboratory Advisory Committee (ILAC), which is a significant responsibility to ensure that patients have access to safe medicine through dispensaries. The ILAC must finish its work before labs can be open. I have included a link below of a Las Vegas Review Journal article that talks about this. Below you will also find the NAC code, a link to the last agenda, and scrolling to the bottom of that agenda you must write a letter to receive emails about updates on the ILAC committee.
The next meeting will be Wednesday March 4th at 3:30PM at 3811 West Charleston Ste 112 Las Vegas, NV.
NAC 453A.666 Independent Laboratory Advisory Committee: Establishment; duties. (NRS 453A.370)
1. The Division will establish an Independent Laboratory Advisory Committee comprised of members, which ensure that the membership of the Advisory Committee is representative of the independent testing laboratories and other medical marijuana establishments in this State.
2. The Advisory Committee shall:
(a) Provide recommendations to the Division regarding the testing of medical marijuana;
(b) Make recommendations to the Division for any changes to this chapter relating to the testing of medical marijuana; and
(c) Assist the Division in creating and updating a policy manual to be used by the Division to guide the testing of edible marijuana products and marijuana-infused products by independent testing laboratories.
ASD Market Week March 1st-4th 2015 Las Vegas Convention Center
If you have a business license you can register for this convention for free, which features many retail items that can be carried in your dispensary. There is also different marketing and retail education tracks that would be very helpful for you to attend.
***Women Grow Event Thursday March 5th
Women Grow, a national cannabis organization, with local chapters is having its monthly networking meeting on March 5th at Sierra Gold and it is open to all.
***Oaksterdam University Training March 6-9th
Cannabis horticulture focused training beginner and advanced at the Four Queens Hotel downtown Las Vegas March 6-9th. I have personally attended the Oaksterdam training in 2009 with Ed Rosenthal and hope that they are continuing to provide high quality training to the cannabis industry.
LVCIC Training March 7th & 8th
On March 7th 2:30PM-10PM they are doing a free canna-community get together at Tahiti Village and on March 8th 9AM-6PM is their paid all day educational seminar. Fantastic networking with patients at this event and they also are selling tables for the March 7th event. If you go to my past cannabis newsletter archives at the end of the email, you will find my notes from their last training there.
***420 Las Vegas Freedom Festival – Come party with us or buy a booth!
LVNORML & WECAN is going to be doing the largest 420 festival Las Vegas has ever seen downtown on Sunday April 19
th 5PM-2AM at the Las Vegas Country Saloon (LVCS) on the Fremont Street Experience. Come join us as we do the 420 countdown, crown Miss 420, and celebrate the cannabis lifestyle. Booths are available by contacting
Kurt@wecan702.org or reach out to me if you have any questions about the event.
***North Las Vegas Mayor Endorsement of MJ Business
The mayor of North Las Vegas recognition of the cannabis industry in his state of the city address was significant in his change in tone from one year ago, showing support for our growing industry. He also made an appearance at the Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Association luncheon that signals his awareness that MMEs are going to be adding tremendous value to North Las Vegas in the next upcoming years.
***NV Cannabis History Lesson
Did you know that Las Vegas had brick and mortar dispensaries at one time? After the “Ogden Memo” in 2009, entrepreneurs set up dispensaries throughout Vegas sometimes along the lines of a model of a California collective. That brief amount of enthusiasm in the cannabis community was met a year later with those facilities being shut down and ruining many of those individuals lives due to federal drug prohibition and no definition to how patients could access medicine in the state of Nevada. If anyone was around at that time and remembers Jolly Green Meds, they were the top notch in providing medicine to patients.
***National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute has a great page summarizing some of their editorial board’s review of cannabis treatment for cancer if you ever need to document or reference a peer reviewed research included here – or you never know when you need some weekend reading.
***WECAN 702 Radio Show & Please Help WECAN
We are in need of more individuals connected into the cannabis industry to interview for our broadcast radio show (30-40,000 listenership reach) and YouTube channel. Please contact (Beach@wecan702.org) if interested. This would get the word out about your NV MME facility and also help with branding. We also have 30 second spots that go for $100 apiece. Our WECAN facebook has over 127,947 likes with 40,762 reached. We want to help connect you with the cannabis patient community. We can also give you a tax receipt because WECAN is a non-profit.
**420 Yoga
If you love yoga and want to attend Nevada’s first 420 Beginner Yoga Class – it is taught by yours truly at Blue Sky Yoga inside the Arts Factory every Tuesday at 4:30PM.
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Jason Sturtsman, B.A.E., Ed.S.
Nevada Independent Cannabis Laboratory Advisory Committee Member
Wellness Education Cannabis Advocates of Nevada (WECAN) Board of Directors
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