Clark County, which is subverting the intent of the law by awarding medical pot licenses before the state can act, can choose locations but not who gets into the business.
That's the word Monday from state officials in a memo sent out to a listserv and celebrated by state medical pot guru Tick Segerblom, the senator who sponsored the legislation. "This was the original intent of SB 374," he told me via Twitter. I previously reported that Clark County had moved ahead of the state.
The key part of the memo is this: Since the State will be reviewing a vast array of operational aspects of the MME businesses per NRS 453A, our ranking of applications could potentially differ from the counties and cities’ review of local business licensing and zoning. Therefore, it seems in the best interest of everyone for the local governments to be willing to support a large number of applicants so that the State and the local governments can reach agreement in the end on the best applicants for the consumers and communities we serve.
Could potentially differ! You know, because they have a merit-based rating system, one unaffected by political juice. They want the cities and counties to create a "large" basket of applicants for the state to sift through.
Large? Wonder how many that is? Or whether the locals will listen.
This just got more interesting. Or as Segerblom put it on Twitter, this "means state is not going along with clark county - major snafu"
The full memo:
Subject: Differences between applying for an NRS 453A State Division of Public & Behavioral Health MME Certification versus Applying for a County/City Business License or Zoning Permit
Attention: Medical Marijuana Establishment (MME) Subscribers
The State Division of Public & Behavioral Health plans to review NRS 453A MME applications for certification in late summer of 2014. In areas of the State where local governments have started their local business licensing/zoning processes ahead of the Division’s NRS 453A MME application process, the Division intends to follow the process as outlined in section 25 of Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) 453A (R-004-14 adopted regulations):
The Division will provide notice of a request for applications to operate a medical marijuana establishment in the following ways:
(a) Posting on the website of the Division that the Division is requesting applicants to submit their applications;
(b) Posting a copy of the request for applications at the principal office of the Division, the Legislative Building and at not less than three other separate, prominent places within this State; and
(c) Making notification of the posting locations using the electronic mailing list maintained by the Division for medical marijuana establishment information.
The Division will accept applications for 10 business days beginning on the date which is 45 business days after the date on which the Division issued the request for applications.
The request for MME applications will include the point values that will be allocated to each applicable portion of the application.
Since the State will be reviewing a vast array of operational aspects of the MME businesses per NRS 453A, our ranking of applications could potentially differ from the counties and cities’ review of local business licensing and zoning. Therefore, it seems in the best interest of everyone for the local governments to be willing to support a large number of applicants so that the State and the local governments can reach agreement in the end on the best applicants forthe consumers and communities we serve.
Clark County, which is subverting the intent of the law by awarding medical pot licenses before the state can act, can choose locations but not who gets into the business.
That's the word Monday from state officials in a memo sent out to a listserv and celebrated by state medical pot guru Tick Segerblom, the senator who sponsored the legislation. "This was the original intent of SB 374," he told me via Twitter. I previously reported that Clark County had moved ahead of the state.
The key part of the memo is this: Since the State will be reviewing a vast array of operational aspects of the MME businesses per NRS 453A, our ranking of applications could potentially differ from the counties and cities’ review of local business licensing and zoning. Therefore, it seems in the best interest of everyone for the local governments to be willing to support a large number of applicants so that the State and the local governments can reach agreement in the end on the best applicants for the consumers and communities we serve.
Could potentially differ! You know, because they have a merit-based rating system, one unaffected by political juice. They want the cities and counties to create a "large" basket of applicants for the state to sift through.
Large? Wonder how many that is? Or whether the locals will listen.
This just got more interesting. Or as Segerblom put it on Twitter, this "means state is not going along with clark county - major snafu"
The full memo:
Subject: Differences between applying for an NRS 453A State Division of Public & Behavioral Health MME Certification versus Applying for a County/City Business License or Zoning Permit
Attention: Medical Marijuana Establishment (MME) Subscribers
The State Division of Public & Behavioral Health plans to review NRS 453A MME applications for certification in late summer of 2014. In areas of the State where local governments have started their local business licensing/zoning processes ahead of the Division’s NRS 453A MME application process, the Division intends to follow the process as outlined in section 25 of Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) 453A (R-004-14 adopted regulations):
The Division will provide notice of a request for applications to operate a medical marijuana establishment in the following ways:
(a) Posting on the website of the Division that the Division is requesting applicants to submit their applications;
(b) Posting a copy of the request for applications at the principal office of the Division, the Legislative Building and at not less than three other separate, prominent places within this State; and
(c) Making notification of the posting locations using the electronic mailing list maintained by the Division for medical marijuana establishment information.
The Division will accept applications for 10 business days beginning on the date which is 45 business days after the date on which the Division issued the request for applications.
The request for MME applications will include the point values that will be allocated to each applicable portion of the application.
Since the State will be reviewing a vast array of operational aspects of the MME businesses per NRS 453A, our ranking of applications could potentially differ from the counties and cities’ review of local business licensing and zoning. Therefore, it seems in the best interest of everyone for the local governments to be willing to support a large number of applicants so that the State and the local governments can reach agreement in the end on the best applicants forthe consumers and communities we serve.
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