Visitors to the Las Vegas Strip shouldn’t expect to be able to smoke marijuana in a casino any time soon.
The Nevada Gaming Commission has said that it does not support customers inside casinos smoking recreational marijuana. The chairman of the commission, Tony Alamo, told the Nevada Independent that since the federal government still considers it a schedule 1 drug, they will follow the law in order to not jeopardize their gaming license.
Alamo continued to explain that without a federal stamp of approval for recreational marijuana, it will still be banned at casino properties.
Nevada voters approved the ballot question to legalize the adult use of marijuana, but the Nevada Department of Taxation has one year to adopt regulations to govern the industry. Marijuana also can’t be consumed in public, per terms of the law.