Why Don't Casinos Offer Rooms for Smoking Marijuana?

Casinos have smoking rooms where one may smoke cigarettes. Why don’t casinos have rooms where one can smoke marijuana?

Mainly because it has nothing to do with smoking and everything to do with gaming licenses, which are a privilege in Nevada, not a right.

Cannabis is still illegal -- in fact, a Schedule 1 controlled substance, like heroin, LSD, mescaline, Ecstasy, and Quaaludes -- on the federal level, which is why gaming regulators have ruled that a clear hard line must be drawn between the casino and marijuana industries. In case of a crackdown by the feds, the casinos will be safely out of harm's way.

Casino owners haven't protested the edict. Why not? They too want to keep the feds off their backs.

So until the wacky weed is removed from federal regulation, where it's been since the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, cannabis will be a no-go for Nevada casino owners and you won't see pot-smoking rooms for rent at their hotels (though, of course, plenty of pot smoking is going on in casino-hotel rooms all over the place all the time, as it always has).

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David Miller Aug-04-2019

Bona fide pot head question

Question asked like a pot head

Dave in Seattle. Aug-04-2019

Buy it here.

You can't smoke it here.

Kevin Lewis Aug-04-2019

I'd rather inhale...

Given a choice, I'd rather be surrounded by "pot heads" than "tobacco heads." Pot smoke isn't nearly as vile and disgusting as pigarette smoke. But yeah, it's s federal issue, and the gummint has decided that the citizenry should be protected from the terrible scourge of cannabis. It doesn't care if we drink, smoke, gamble, or jump off a cliff, but light up a doobie? Heavens, no!

Brad McFarlin Aug-04-2019

Potheads

Far as i know smoking is banned in hotel rooms. And it will cost you $250 if the maid finds smoke in your room...whether or not they make that stick i havent tried to find out.

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