{"id":846168,"date":"2023-11-21T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=846168"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:40:32","slug":"weed-and-loathing-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/weed-and-loathing-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Weed and Loathing in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table class=\"bios\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1944877665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Amazon_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/B0FMH2F17H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Audible_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/weed-and-loathing-in-las-vegas\/id6475781715?ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iBooks_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/weed-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-chris-kudialis\/1148049999?ean=2940184527802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nook_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>Legal marijuana is one of the country\u2019s fastest growing industries and after a few years since legalization, Vegas has created a marijuana monument that no other jurisdiction has ever imagined\u2014not Silicon Valley, Bangkok, or Barcelona. Not even Amsterdam.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Sin City is already home to the world\u2019s largest weed stores. It\u2019s also the only place on the planet where people can pick up cannabis at a drive-thru, as if picking up fast food. A one-of-a-kind marijuana museum and a weed-entertainment mega-center are further evidence that Vegas is just getting started as the Cannabis Capital of the World.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><i>Weed and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/i> is a fun, colorful, and fast read that explores Sin City\u2019s goal of becoming \u201cAmsterdam on steroids.\u201d It\u2019s also brutally honest as it spotlights the shady politics, regulatory corruption, casino clout, anointed players, and moneybags behind the new billion-dollar business. <i>Weed and Loathing<\/i>\u00a0blows away the pot smoke that has, until now, concealed and distorted the cannabis culture of Las Vegas.<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"bios\">About The Author(s)<\/h4>\n<table class=\"bios\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Chris Kudialis is the mainstream media\u2019s authority on cannabis news in Las Vegas. He began covering the beat as a reporter with the Review-Journal in 2015, then moved to the Las Vegas Sun for four years. When Nevada legalized rec in 2016 and started adult-use sales in 2017, the national media began coming to him for insight and coverage. Chris now contributes to Leafly News\u2014the world\u2019s most-read marijuana news website\u2014and other major outlets in North America, including <em>Weedmaps<\/em>, <em>Cannabis Business Times<\/em>, and the <em>GrowthOp<\/em>\u2014the cannabis news arm of Canada\u2019s <em>National Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris began his career writing about sports, specifically college basketball, college football, the NBA, MLB and tennis. He still reports from the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years for the <em>Seattle Times<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Since 2017, legal marijuana has taken its place among Las Vegas\u2019 smorgasbord of lustful offerings and\u00a0<i>Weed and Loathing<\/i>\u00a0chronicles its whole convoluted history.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":846169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[38,440,1917,1918,378],"product_tag":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/846168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=846168"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=846168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}