When the Lexi, a lodge selling itself as “Las Vegas’ first cannabis-inclusive property,” opens on Friday, June 2, the query is whether or not it’s going to function legally.
An artist’s rendering of the Lexi. The nongaming lodge, previously generally known as the Artisan, was acquired by Phoenix-based Elevations Motels and Resorts for $11.9 million in March 2022. Picture: Elevations Motels)
The 64-room nongaming lodge simply off the Las Vegas Strip will allow and even encourage hashish smoking in every of its 22 fourth-floor visitor rooms, which will likely be geared up with state-of-the-art air filters particularly for this function.
Solely company staying in these rooms can devour hashish on the property, in line with the FAQ web page on the Lexi’s web site, and all company will likely be requested to current a sound ID proving they’re at the least 21 years outdated upon entry. As well as, by legislation, no hashish might be bought on the Lexi. It could actually’t be delivered to the property, and smoking in widespread areas is prohibited.
“The Lexi operates in accordance with all native and state legal guidelines,” the FAQ claims.
At subject is whether or not state and native legal guidelines contemplate a lodge room to be non-public or public property. Marijuana can solely be consumed inside a non-public dwelling or enterprise with a hashish consumption lounge license, in line with the Nevada legislation that legalized leisure hashish.
Nevada voters handed leisure hashish legal guidelines in November 2016.
Skirting the Legislation
None of those lounges are open but apart from the Vegas Tasting Room at NuWu Hashish Market, which has skirted laws because it opened in 2019 as a result of it sits on tribal land about two miles North of Fremont Road.
However the Lexi wouldn’t qualify to open a hashish lounge anyway. Although it initially introduced plans to open one on its floor flooring, these plans have been shortly scrapped when its house owners realized that Nevada legislation prohibits hashish consumption lounges inside 1,500 ft of a on line casino. The Palace Station sits lower than 1,500 ft from the Lexi.
In line with the town of Las Vegas, the Lexi’s house owners didn’t even hassle making use of for a lounge license.
Elevations invested greater than $15 million to buy and renovate the 1.3-acre Artisan Lodge at 1501 W. Sahara Ave., which the Siegel Group purchased out of foreclosures in 2010.
So are Lodge Rooms Personal or Public?
“I feel most individuals would argue that lodge rooms are public locations which are open for enterprise for the general public to hire these rooms,” Amanda Connor, an legal professional with Connor & Connor, a Nevada agency specializing in hashish legislation, advised KLAS-TV.
Whether it is decided that legal guidelines are being damaged by the Lexi, it’s not clear whether or not the lodge, its clients, or each, could be held accountable.
A consultant for the Lexi didn’t return repeated On line casino.org emails looking for remark.
