Gaming officials dealing with medical marijuana
By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun
Medical marijuana and the Nevada casino industry don’t mix, gaming officials said at a conference Nov. 7, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.
The Gaming Control Board made it clear in a May notice that casinos must stay out of the state’s budding medical marijuana business since the drug is illegal at the federal level. But it’s still a hot-button issue for the industry, and it was a recurring subject at Friday’s Gaming Law Conference at Red Rock Resort.
Nevada’s two top gaming regulators, Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett and Gaming Commission Chairman Tony Alamo, spoke on a panel together where they reaffirmed that the board made the right call.
Alamo, whose father was a prominent Las Vegas casino executive, expressed some disbelief that the mixture of medical marijuana and gambling became a serious regulatory concern.
The gambling industry’s Sheldon Adelson just spent $5 million dollars for last minute ads in florida to keep medical pot of out of florida. Just another example of money in politics is ruining our democracy.
And somehow Mr. Sheldon Adelson doe not want online gaming as competition since he is so moral. But his form of gambling is a alcohol induced assurance of you losing your pay check is moral.
Get the money out of politics so these hypocrites have less influence on our nation wide elections.