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Marijuana White Paper Symposium

 

William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
and
The Nevada Law Journal

present

The Elephant in Nevada’s Hotel Rooms: A Symposium on Social Consumption of Recreational Marijuana

November 2, 2018
8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Thomas and Mack Moot Courtroom


Approved for 6 CLE credits

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This Symposium is centered around the Nevada Law Journal’s most recent White Paper, entitled The Elephant in Nevada’s Hotel Rooms: Social Consumption of Recreational Marijuana, a Survey of Laws, Issues, and Solutions. While recreational marijuana is now legal in several states, Nevada’s legalization of marijuana presents a unique challenge—recreational marijuana is legal to purchase, but public consumption is a misdemeanor punishable by fine. This situation presents a problem for Las Vegas’s forty-million annual visitors who may legally purchase marijuana but have no place to legally consume it. The White Paper analyzes the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act and surveys the approaches of other legalizing states, and ultimately proposes legislation to address Nevada’s public consumption problem.

The Elephant in Nevada’s Hotel Rooms will begin with opening remarks from Congresswoman Dina Titus and Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael L. Douglas. Attorney General, Karl Racine, will discuss the current state of federalism and marijuana, followed by one of the White Paper authors, Brent Resh, discussing the findings of the White Paper. The first panel of the day will discuss what legalizing states are doing to tackle the problem of public consumption, followed by a panel of General Counsel from local hotel and casino properties discussing the implications of legalized marijuana for resort properties. The third panel will feature legislators and regulators discussing how legislation may be able to fix the current problem with public consumption, and finally, the last panel will discuss the impact of legalized marijuana on Nevada tourism and tax.

 

 

Thomas and Mack Moot Courtroom

8:30 a.m. Coffee and pastries

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

  • Welcome, Dean Dan Hamilton and Rebecca Crooker, Editor in Chief, NLJ
  • Opening Remarks, Congresswoman Dina Titus, First Congressional District of Nevada

9:15 a.m. Chief Justice Michael Douglas, Nevada Supreme Court

9:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Keynote Talk

9:50 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Q&A and Discussion

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Learning From Each Other: Consumption in Public Spaces

  • Assemblyman Steve Yeager, Nevada Assembly District Nine
  • Attorney General Karl Racine, District of Columbia

  • Sarah M. Mercer, Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Break

Move to Richard Tam Alumni Center

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Lunchtime Talk - Creating the Whitepaper

  • Brent Resh, Esq., Forum Editor, Vol. 18
  • Alysa Grimes, Esq., Nevada Law Editor, Vol. 18

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunchtime Panel - Marijuana Here, There, and Everywhere – But What About Your Hotel Room?

  • Phyllis Gilland, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Golden Entertainment
  • Anthony Pearl, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
  • Melissa Kuipers Blake, Shareholder, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
  • Melissa Waite, Member, Dickinson Wright

1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Break

Move to Thomas and Mack Moot Courtroom

1:45–2:45 Is Legislation the Answer?

2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Marijuana for Tourism and Taxes

  • Riana Durrett, Executive Director, Nevada Dispensary Association
  • Professor Francine Lipman, Member, Nevada Tax Commission
  • Brian Irvine, Member, Dickinson Wright
  • Director Bill Anderson, Nevada Department of Taxation

4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Break

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Closing Keynote

  • John Hudak, Deputy Director, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings Institution

5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Reception

 

 

For more information, please contact eic@nevadalawjournal.org  

 

 

 

 

 

November 2, 2018
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
BSL Thomas and Mack Moot Court Facility
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