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Editorial Methodology & Sources

How LasVegasCannabis.org content is researched, sourced, reviewed, and updated.

Las Vegas cannabis information has more moving pieces than most jurisdictions. Statutory law sits inside Nevada Revised Statutes Title 56. Operational rules sit with the CCB. Hotel-smoking fees vary property by property and change at management discretion. Lounges are licensed by both the CCB and individual jurisdictions. The airport amnesty-box program is operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. Federal-property rules (the 1,500-foot casino-property rule, the airport itself) sit in federal law. This page documents how we keep up — and where every claim on this site comes from.

Sources

LasVegasCannabis.org draws on six categories of primary sources, in order of weight:

  1. Nevada statutes and regulations. Nevada Revised Statutes Title 56 (Cannabis), NRS Chapter 678 (the legalization framework), the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Regulations (NCCR), and related statute. Statutes are the source of truth for what is and is not legal.
  2. The Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB). The state agency responsible for licensing, compliance, the medical-marijuana program, lounges, and the regulatory framework. CCB publications, meeting minutes, license lists, and regulatory bulletins are primary sources for every operational claim on this site.
  3. State and local government publications. The Nevada Department of Taxation for tax revenue and excise rules; the Clark County Department of Aviation for Harry Reid International Airport amnesty-box procedure; Clark County, City of Las Vegas, and City of Henderson zoning and lounge rules; the Nevada Legislature for bill tracking; the Nevada Courts for published rulings.
  4. Federal regulation for the federal-property and airport rules (the casino-property setback under federal-licensing rules, TSA cannabis policy, federal-land prohibitions in BLM and NPS jurisdictions like Red Rock Canyon and Lake Mead).
  5. Peer-reviewed research and government health authorities for any health, safety, or pharmacology claims — PubMed-indexed journals, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIDA, NIAAA, SAMHSA, the CDC, and the FDA. The edible-dosing guidance and alcohol-interaction warnings are grounded in clinical literature.
  6. Credible journalism — outlets with institutional fact-checking processes (the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, Nevada Independent, AP, Reuters) for current-events context. Where journalism reports on a primary source, we link to the primary source whenever available.

For an additional layer of cannabis-pharmacology and harm-reduction sourcing, we draw on the broader TryCannabis.org Cannabis Education Network, which maintains a research-focused sister site (CannaScience.org) covering the underlying medical literature.

Currency — How Often Pages Are Reviewed

Las Vegas cannabis facts change at different speeds. Statutory law changes only when the legislature acts (biennially, plus special sessions). CCB regulations change more frequently. Dispensary openings and closings happen month to month. Hotel smoking-fee policies change at management discretion, sometimes with little notice. Our review schedule reflects those different cadences.

Every page on LasVegasCannabis.org carries a “last verified” date that reflects when the lead editor most recently confirmed the content against current law and current sources. The site honors a sitewide SITE_LAST_VERIFIED constant that flows through to JSON-LD dateModified and OpenGraph article:modified_time meta tags so search engines and AI crawlers can see content freshness.

Content is reviewed:

  • Annually as a backstop. Every page is reviewed at least once per year regardless of whether anything specific has changed.
  • Whenever a material change occurs. When the CCB issues a new rule, the legislature passes a cannabis bill, a published court ruling changes the law, a tax rate is adjusted, or a major lounge or dispensary opens or closes, we revise the affected pages immediately and update timestamps.
  • More often for fast-moving facts. Hotel-policy and dispensary-list pages are reviewed more frequently because those facts change faster than statutory law.
  • When readers report errors. Reader-reported corrections are investigated within a few business days; verified corrections are made promptly.

What We Do Not Do

  • We do not sell cannabis products — not flower, not edibles, not concentrate, not accessories, not memberships, not lounge bookings, not anything.
  • We do not recommend specific dispensaries, lounges, hotels, or tour companies in exchange for money or comped product.
  • We do not accept paid placements, sponsored content, or affiliate revenue from cannabis, hospitality, or tourism businesses.
  • We do not partner with operators in any commercial capacity. We will publish their license status, address, hours, and policies; we will not publish their marketing copy.
  • We do not list or endorse unlicensed Strip storefronts that sell hemp products at cannabis prices.
  • We do not reproduce dispensary, lounge, or hotel marketing copy. When we describe a dispensary or lounge, the description is written editorially based on CCB licensure data and on-site observation, not on operator-supplied promotional text.
  • We do not generate AI content without editorial review. AI tools may be used as a research aid; the resulting content is then verified against CCB publications and Nevada statute, edited, and signed off by the lead editor before publication.

Corrections Policy

Despite our review process, errors occur. When they do:

  • Minor corrections (typos, broken links, formatting) are fixed promptly without a formal notice.
  • Factual corrections (a dispensary that has closed, a hotel whose smoking-fee policy has changed, an outdated fine amount, an incorrect lounge address) are acknowledged with a dated update note added to the affected page describing what was changed and when.
  • Significant corrections — errors that could meaningfully affect a reader’s legal or financial decisions in Vegas — receive both an on-page note and an updated article:modified_time + lastReviewed JSON-LD field.

Reader corrections are filed through the contact page. Every report is logged.

Citation Style

Where pages cite specific statutes, regulations, agency publications, court rulings, or peer-reviewed studies, citations appear inline using the site’s shared render_citation() helper, which standardizes citation formatting across the network and links directly to the underlying source whenever a stable URL exists. We prefer linking to primary sources (the actual statute, the actual CCB publication, the actual court opinion) over secondary coverage.