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Your weekly events planner, starring The Killers, Meute, Sickick, Taylor Tomlinson, Nervo and more.

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It’s 420! We check in on consumption lounges, drive-thru dispensaries, CBD spa treatments and a stylish new product.

It’s Coachella time again, and that means Las Vegans are in for some musical memories, too.

New Downtown spot We All Scream serves up party vibes … and ice cream.

Delicious food-truck fare, plus tacos, tacos, tacos!

A Las Vegas agency is helping local athletes prepare for the NFL Draft—and beyond.

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420 Photo llustration by Corlene Byrd (Shutterstock)

FEATURE Before LIB, EDC or even Vegoose, Las Vegas had Viva. Looking back at the longtime local rockabilly festival as it celebrates year 25.

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OMAR APOLLO With Dev Never, Tora-i, 7 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. PARTY

LTJ BUKEM With Sam Binga, 10 p.m., Discopussy, discopussydtlv.com.

ALEC BENJAMIN With Sara Kays, 7:30 p.m., House of Blues, ticketmaster.com.

JUSTIN CREDIBLE 10:30 p.m., Omnia, events.taogroup. com.

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DRAGONFORCE London’s DragonForce brings a lesson in power metal to the House of Blues, where the band swoops in with its first world tour in two years. “You’re not going to just see a few guys jamming out and having a drum kit around. It’s a full-on show,” guitarist and founder Hermani Li tells the Weekly. “You can’t even blink, because there’s so many things happening on our stage.” DragonForce prides itself on playing speed metal so fast, it damn near broke Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock; The band’s featured song in that game, “Through the Fire and the Flames,” plays at 200 beats-per-minute, making it the hardest track to beat in GH3 and possibly the whole franchise. We chatted with Li about metal spectacle, the power of video games and … Celine Dion? Head to lasvegasweekly.com for the full interview. With Battle Beast, Seven Spires. 7:30 p.m., $27, House of Blues, houseofblues.com. –Amber Sampson

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GIADA VALENTI 7 p.m., Myron’s, thesmithcenter.com. (Courtesy)

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. WASHINGTON CAPITALS 7 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com.

DAVID FOSTER With Katharine McPhee, 8 p.m., Encore Theater, ticketmaster.com.

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KARMA Midnight, On the Record, ontherecordlv. com.

IYA TERRA With E.N Young, Cydeways, Haleamano, 6:30 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com.

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LADY GAGA: JAZZ & PIANO 8 p.m., & 4/16-4/17, Dolby Live, ticket master.com. (Courtesy)

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VIVA LAS VEGAS ROCKABILLY WEEKEND Thru 4/17, events and times vary, Orleans Casino, vivalasvegas.net.

2CELLOS 8 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com. INNER WAVE 8 p.m., 24 Oxford, etix.com. SCORPIONS With Skid Row, 8 p.m., & 4/16, Zappos Theater, ticketmaster.com. MAGICAL MUSIC: SONGS FROM THE MOUSE 8 p.m., the Space, thespacelv.com.

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GABRIEL IGLESIAS Thru 4/17, 10 p.m., Mirage Theatre, mirage.mgmresorts. com.

BETH HART With Marina V, 7:30 p.m., House of Blues, ticketmaster.com. CLEMENTINE WAS RIGHT With Jess Pluto, Radical West, 8 p.m., Taverna Costera, eventbrite. com. BRIAN NEWMAN AFTER DARK 11:30 p.m., & 4/15-4/17, NoMad Library, ticketmaster.com.

KASKADE 10:30 p.m., Omnia Nightclub, events. taogroup.com.

NERVO 10:30 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. BTS 7:30 p.m., & 4/16, Allegiant Stadium, ticketmaster.com.

PLEASUREKRAFT With 6GR, Michael Blain, 10 p.m., Commonwealth, elationlv.com. RADOLESCENTS With The Hajj, Noogy, BIFF, 8 p.m., SoulBelly BBQ, eventbrite.com.

MEUTE Nearing the end of its North America tour, this self-described “techno marching band” will stop in Vegas to entertain ages 18 and older with rolling basslines and hypnotic rhythms—using absolutely no electronics. The 11-piece group exclusively employs wind instruments and drums to put on its energetic, live shows. Since its 2015 launch in Hamburg, Germany, Meute has been gaining international attention for reimagined techno hits, along with original compositions. Catch the group before it heads to Coachella to close out its tour with back-to-back weekend sets in the desert. With Skye, 7:30 p.m., $25-$39.50, Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. –Shannon Miller

BROADWAY IN THE HOOD: THE COLOR PURPLE 7 p.m., & 4/16 at 2 & 7 p.m., Troesh Studio Theater, thesmithcenter.com. BACKSTREET BOYS 8 p.m., & 4/16, the Colosseum, ticketmaster.com.

BILLY STRINGS 7 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb. com. LIL JON 10:30 p.m., Hakkasan Nightclub, events. taogroup.com. ALISAN PORTER 7 p.m., Myron’s, thesmithcenter.com. DEORRO 10:30 p.m., Marquee Nightclub, events. taogroup.com. EMO NIGHT TOUR 8 p.m., 24 Oxford, etix.com. SOFI TUKKER 11 a.m., Tao Beach Dayclub, events. taogroup.com.

JEEZY 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com. FRACTURED TRANSMISSION With C/A/T, Spheric, 9 p.m., Dive Bar, allevents.in. YO YOLIE 11 a.m., Bare Pool Lounge, barepoollv.com. GUANA BATZ 8:30 p.m., Fremont Country Club, eventbrite.com. AMOS GILL 7:30 p.m., & 4/16, Wiseguys, vegas.wiseguys comedy.com. SHAGGAMON & NEW AGE TRIBE 8 p.m., Taverna Costera, eventbrite.com.

THE KILLERS There are a lot of asterisked performances between today and the last time The Killers played a proper show for a hometown audience: “Pre-recorded set for BBC Radio 2,” “Part of the iHeartRadio Living Room Concert Series,” that sort of thing. Without getting too deep in the weeds on what constitutes “a proper show,” we’re willing to bet that you haven’t seen The Killers live in person in two years or longer. That means the band has two albums’ worth of new material (2020’s Imploding the Mirage and 2021’s Pressure Machine) that you’ve never heard played live—to say nothing of the even newer material the band is reportedly working on now, some of which it may road-test. And oh yeah, The Killers still have a whole catalog full of songs that you—and Las Vegas—kinda grew up with, surely a huge reason all three of their Chelsea shows were sold out at press time. Just remember, where there’s a will (and a Stubhub), there’s a way. April 15-17, 9 p.m., $64+, the Chelsea. –Geoff Carter

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FLUME With Floating Points, Chrome Sparks, 8 p.m., Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, seetickets.us.

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SICKICK We had to arrive in 2022 in order to get a masked, mysterious DJ who’s gone viral with mashup remixes combining Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” with Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time” and Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” with Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” Sickick simply couldn’t have existed until our current reality, where TikTok is more important than a deal with a record label. Still, there’s something to these sounds, as evidenced by Madonna’s recent release of Sickick’s remix of “Frozen” with additional vocals by Nigerian singer Fireboy DML. The rising star DJ has joined the party at Virgin’s Élia Beach Club and will likely be back throughout the summer. 11 a.m., $40, eliabeachlv.com. –Brock Radke

TAYLOR TOMLINSON 8 p.m., Encore Theater, ticketmaster.com. (Courtesy/Todd Rosenberg)

PEACE, LOVE & HOPPINESS 3 p.m., Big Dog’s Brewing Co., bigdogsbrews.com. DAVID GUETTA 11 a.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: BEETHOVEN & CLYNE 7:30 p.m., Reynolds Hall, thesmithcenter.com.

GAVIN DEGRAW 8 p.m., Venetian Theatre, ticketmaster.com. TIËSTO 11 a.m., Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com. MARSHMELLO 10:30 p.m., XS Nightclub, wynnsocial.com. WIZ KHALIFA 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com.

TECH N9NE With Joey Cool, X-Raided, Mayday, 6:30 p.m., House of Blues, livenation.com. ILLENIUM 11 a.m., Tao Beach Dayclub, events. taogroup.com LAS VEGAS LIGHTS VS. PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS 6 p.m., Cashman Field, lasvegaslightsfc.com.

LEE RITENOUR 6 & 8:30 p.m., Myron’s, thesmithcenter.com. DOC MARTIN & DJ THREE 11 p.m., Discopussy, seetickets.us. LOUD LUXURY 11 a.m., Wet Republic, events.taogroup.com. D.O.A. With The Death Set, Suburban Resistance, 8 p.m., the Dive Bar, brownpapertickets. com.

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SUNDAY 17 APR.

DILLON FRANCIS Noon, Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com.

DJ SODA With Maria Romano, 11 a.m., Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD 7 p.m., & 4/18, Event Lawn at Virgin, etix.com.

MARK DA SPOT Noon, Daylight Beach Club, daylightvegas.com.

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BRETT RUBIN The Strip hasn’t yet seen a full season of Moonbeam, Ayu Dayclub’s tropical, Tulum-inspired Sunday-night pool party that has already featured a stellar group of artists including Duke Dumont, Jamie Jones and the Martinez Brothers. The soundtrack will continue to expand as Resorts World evolves through 2022 with return visits from Disclosure and Green Velvet, but a local artist starring in this event is a rare occurrence. DJ and music and event producer Brett Rubin steps into that role in this latest installment of Moonbeam, bringing the seductive house sounds that have been blistering Beatport charts and setting the tone at his Terrace Afterhours sessions at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club. 10 p.m., $20-$30+, zoukgrouplv.com. –Brock Radke

THE HU With The Haunt, 7 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. (Courtesy/Enkhbat Nyamkhishig)

MONDAY 18 APR.

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. NEW JERSEY DEVILS 7 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com. PETER BERMAN 4/18-4/24, 8 p.m., LA Comedy Club, bestvegascomedy.com.

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BEABADOOBEE With Mannequin Pussy, Luna Li, 7 p.m., 24 Oxford, etix.com.

AMANDA ROSE 9 p.m., Emporium, emporiumlv.com. KEON POLEE With Paul Ogata, Jay Black, 8 p.m., Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club, mgmgrand. mgmresorts.com. SANTA FE & FAT CITY HORNS 6:30 p.m., Bootlegger Copa Room, bootleggerlasvegas.com. BASILE With Steve Marshall, Paul Farahvar, 8:30 & 10:30 p.m., thru 4/20, Laugh Factory, ticketmaster.com.

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UNLV’s first Pfizer research scholarship goes to Citlally Lopez BY SHANNON MILLER

you hear, ‘There’s no research on this disease. It’s over,’ that’s really tragic and disheartening,” Lopez says. “I want to be there to tell them, ‘I’m trying to find a cure right now to help you. Don’t give up.’” What have you observed that has made you so empathetic for patients’ experiences? I used to volunteer in the emergency room pre-pandemic. I was interacting directly with the patients. Right from the moment they come in, I see their fear. From the moment they get signed in, I see the relief, “Someone’s here to help me.” Then they see the doctor, [and] then there’s that relief again. It can be good or bad. I either see them leave in tears … [or] come out really happy and relieved. I think, when you’re treating a lot of people, you [can] tend to disassociate. But it can also be hard to do that, when you’re directly face to face with them and you’re seeing that they are human beings, and they deserve the best care. You’re looking for a cure for cancer, preparing for medical school and maintaining a perfect gradepoint average and attendance. How do you balance it all? It’s a lot of studying for classes. And another aspect of it is the research. Unfortunately, an experiment can’t be done in 20 minutes—it can run for hours. What I tend to do is start an experiment and during that experiment time, I start to study. And once I need to, for example, go back to my experiment to purify or something, I focus completely on what I am doing.

I think a large aspect of why I’m able to balance is because I do make time for friends and family. I feel like if I didn’t have that free time or hobbies, I’d probably go crazy. How do cultural and language barriers play out in a health care setting? I’ve volunteered at Sunrise Hospital—it’s near where I live—and there’s a large population of minorities, mainly Spanish speakers. Most of the staff, when I’m volunteering there, does not speak Spanish. The Spanish speakers are really concerned, trying to find out what to do. They’re scared. But how do you express to someone, “I’m feeling something in my throat.” You can always motion to it, but you can’t specifically tell them what [is wrong], without that language. Just recently, my brother was in the hospital. There was a security guard there, and he was a non-Spanish speaker. I remember him telling me, “Only your mom can go in, because this is a serious issue.” And I said my mom doesn’t speak English well. He said, “She was speaking English just fine to me.” He didn’t respect the idea that she’s mainly a Spanish speaker. If the doctor [is] speaking in scientific terms, she’s not going to understand that. That further motivated me—this lack of sympathy for someone who doesn’t speak your language. Has your family changed their tune, now that they see you have a knack for scientific research and medical studies? They’re definitely really proud. I did an interview for Telemundo, and they’re purposely looking out for that one. And they have also said, it really helps [to see] a Mexican [woman] is doing something that they never thought was possible—for something as big as cancer.

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iology student Citlally Lopez wants to help medical patients every step of the way. First comes communication. Her volunteer work in the main lobby at Sunrise Hospital allows her to observe and help many Spanish-speaking patients in a facility where, Lopez says, very few staff members speak the language. Next up: treating the patient. As a junior at UNLV, the 21-year-old is involved in research to find a cure for cancer. Lopez recently received the Pfizer La Jolla Academic Industrial Relations Diversity Research Fellowship in Chemistry, a $20,000 scholarship that aims to diversify the field. According to Pew Research Center, women comprise 40% of the nation’s physical scientists and 48% of life scientists. And although Latino workers account for 17% of employment across all jobs, only 9% are in health-related jobs. Lopez will present findings from more than seven months of research at Pfizer’s institution in La Jolla, California, in August. She says it took a while for her family to believe a woman, let alone a first-generation Mexican-American woman, has a place in research labs and in medical school. But with encouragement from her older sister, now studying to become a doctor in Reno, she was able to see herself in those roles and pursue scientific studies. Amid working toward a cure for cancer, Lopez is studying to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in May. She says applying for medical school is “Plan A” but also hopes to continue on her research path. “Once

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BURNING QUESTIONS Getting into the weeds on cannabis consumption lounges BY AMBER SAMPSON

Ever since Assembly Bill 341 passed last June, paving the way for cannabis consumption lounges, Nevadans have been ablaze with questions. When will they open? Who gets to open one? What will they be like? Here’s a breakdown as we prepare for lounges to open around town.

When will cannabis consumption lounges open? One already has. The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe’s Vegas Tasting Room, at Downtown’s NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, is the only cannabis consumption lounge to open in Las Vegas so far. But for non-tribal lounges, we’ve still got a wait. Scot Rutledge, a cannabis lobbyist and partner of Argentum Partners, says regulations still need to be finalized and approved by the Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB), but once that’s done, the application and licensing process can begin. “We are currently finishing up our public workshop process, which has included over 14 public meetings on the topic of consumption lounges,” says Tyler Klimas, executive director for the Cannabis Compliance Board. “Barring any unforeseen issues, it is possible we may see the first lounges open before the end of the year, possibly as early as the fall.” The Clark County Commission will hold a workshop on April 19 to discuss its cannabis lounge ordinance with cannabis industry professionals and the general public.

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Are only dispensaries allowed to open lounges? Contrary to popular belief, no. “There will be an opportunity for anybody who is interested to apply,” Rutledge says. “We’ve also tried to eliminate some of the more egregious boundaries or barriers to entry.” This year, 10 lounge licenses for independent applicants and 10 licenses for social equity applicants will be awarded. Social equity applicants represent those who have been affected by past marijuana criminalization laws and who live in a “social equity zone,” where there’s been high numbers of marijuana-related arrests. Rutledge speculates retail cannabis spaces might be allowed to apply for licenses first and open first, since they already have a location where the lounge can be attached. But “for the privilege of that,” he says, retail cannabis establishments will pay a $100,000 application fee, whereas independent and social equity applicants will pay $10,000 and $2,500, respectively. It’s tough to pinpoint exactly how many retail spaces will open lounges this year, but the desire to obtain licenses is high. “The CCB has received over 45 letters of intent from current retail establishments, signaling their interest in opening a consumption lounge,” Klimas says. “That number represents a large portion of the establishments that would qualify.” Rutledge adds that, “A lot of them have already started building out their lounge venue. Dispensaries like Planet 13, Oasis and the Source have already announced plans to open lounges.” One important distinction is that dispensaries only get to open one lounge, even if they have multiple dispensary locations. “They have to pick their favorite,” Rutledge says.

What could an independent consumption lounge look like? “It could be a comedy club. It could be an arts and crafts place where you come in, and you consume cannabis and paint,” Rutledge says. “It could be a yoga studio, where you consume and then go through a guided yoga practice. It could be whatever the entrepreneur thinks will work.” But ultimately, “While these are statewide, I think most of them will exist in Southern Nevada to reintroduce the idea of what hospitality and having a night out means,” he says.

How will a lounge compare to a bar? Regulations are still being finalized for lounges, but don’t expect to see any of them opening with gaming or alcohol. Strict gaming regulations in Nevada prevent gaming licensees from getting involved with the cannabis industry. Meanwhile, the no-alcohol rule dates back to an existing regulation prohibiting alcohol from being sold at any cannabis business, Rutledge says. Consumption lounges also have to watch their step. The CCB prohibits lounges from existing within 1,000 feet of schools, 300 feet from community facilities such as churches and 1,500 feet from gaming establishments. Lounge owners will also be required to maintain good air quality. In terms of services, those offered by a lounge will likely feel familiar to bargoers. Customers will be able to order single-use products, which Rutledge says can vary from “one gram of usable cannabis to no more than 10 milligrams of THC in an edible product,” including beverages. He says patrons will also be able to purchase “ready to consume food and beverages.” “You don’t order a bottle of whiskey and they give you the bottle and a glass on the bar top, and you sit there and pour it yourself,” Rutledge adds. “You order a drink of whiskey.” Regulations for vaporizing are still being tweaked, but Rutledge says we could theoretically see patrons eventually purchasing a third of a gram for a vape pen. And ordering a dab could become like ordering a shot of alcohol. Rutledge says proper employee training, “to ensure that they not only really understand what they’re serving but they can understand what the signs of overconsumption look like” will be imperative. Discussions around safety while driving are still being discussed, but, “I think the cannabis industry has a chance to do something way better than the alcohol industry when it comes to being responsible about how people consume and what they do after they consume,” he says.

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Addressing licensing diversity The push for diversity in the cannabis industry remains a steady battle. A March 2022 demographic study by the CCB surveyed more than 15,000 agent card holders in the local cannabis industry. Of the 42% who responded, 55% were men, and 52% of respondents were white. A’Esha Goins, who serves as the chair of diversity, equity and inclusion on the CCB’s Cannabis Advisory Commission, says she has been in the industry too long to be shocked by those numbers. But, “I’m not dismayed by what we see,” she says. “I’m inspired to change it.” The Cannabis Compliance Board isn’t able to aside a specific number of licenses for diversity applicants (lobbyist Scot Rutledge says initial regulation drafts tried), but it can require more from its license holders. All applicants must submit a diversity plan, CCB Executive Director Tyler Klimas says, in which they detail employee and leadership demographics and “goals for hiring, retention and the development of diverse groups, along with proposed timelines and benchmarks.” Diversity applicants still face an uphill battle when it comes to education and funding, though. Goins recently stepped in to help with Pathway to Ownership, a 16-week social equity cannabis education program run by her organization Cannabis Equity and Inclusion Community and funded by the county. The course walks applicants through “the whole cannabis industry,” she says, covering everything from operating procedures and coding to how to decipher regulations. And it’s already fostering success, Goins says. “We have 13 licensees ready to go,” she says. “One of them has already been positioned as a manager in one of the dispensaries. One of them has already found funding. And one of them is negotiating an agreement to manage one of the consumption lounges.” Goins says the CEIC will continue educating cohorts, but ultimately it all goes back to funding. Independent and social equity license holders still have to show proof of $200,000 in liquid assets and other costly documentation. Klimas says the Board can, in some cases, reduce licensing fees, but since traditional financing isn’t an option, license holders might have to lean on private capital for further funding. –Amber Sampson

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Curaleaf on Las Vegas Boulevard (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)

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Valley dispensaries are bringing customer service know-how to your car window

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BY GEOFF CARTER A few weeks back, just before the mask requirement ended, we ran out of edibles at 10 p.m. on a Friday night. My girlfriend and I didn’t particularly care to put on shoes, mask up and go talk to a budtender, so we went to the website of our closest dispensary—Curaleaf, on Las Vegas Boulevard just south of Oakey—filled up a cart with what we wanted and used the dispensary’s drive-up window to pick up our product. We ordered, drove to the dispensary and had our exit bag full of swag in less than 20 minutes—and I never changed out of my slippers. Drive-thru dispensary windows were approved in Clark County in September 2020, and in the City of Las Vegas roughly six months after that. (Downtown’s NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, owing to its location on tribal land, introduced a drive-thru in summer

2020.) Nevada’s legal cannabis industry, which is nothing if not nimble-footed in the face of ever-changing regulations, has been steadily introducing drive-thru windows at dispensaries across the Valley; they can be found at the northwest location of Thrive and at Boulder City’s Wallflower, among other spots. But Downtown’s Curaleaf, my local, had a leg up: it occupies a former fast food building that already had a drive-thru window. Curaleaf simply converted it to their needs by adding a lengthy shade to the driveway and creating a QR code that brings up the menu. “We want to give our customers every option to buy, in the most convenient way possible for them,” says Curaleaf’s Regional VP Jim Smith. That includes not only picking up online orders at the drive-thru but pulling into one of the curb-

side pickup spots at the front of the store and having an order walked out to you, or having the product delivered straight to your home. But the drive-thru is a cannabis retail innovation with a classic, uniquely American appeal. Smith says Curaleaf’s drive-thru—which, like the dispensary itself, stays open until 3 a.m., long after curbside and delivery service has ended— is enjoying a very positive reception. “[We’re looking] at expanding to 24 hours a day, quite honestly, based off of the success that we’ve seen,” he says. We’ve been talking about pre-orders, coming from people who have already spoken with a budtender in the past and know exactly what they want. How does Curaleaf handle customers who pull into the drive-thru without knowing what they want, and hem and haw their way through

the menu like someone bogarting the window at a Taco Bell? “If you look at that drive-thru, there’s expandability,” says Smith, calling attention to the misted, fully illuminated shade structure covering the lane. “As it gets busy, we have the opportunity to have budtenders out there talking to customers directly, and placing their orders from the drive-thru line.” Curaleaf’s drive-thru, and those at other Valley dispensaries, are evidence of how quickly this retail industry has evolved and continues to evolve. And should the day come, hopefully soon, when cannabis is legalized at the federal level, Curaleaf’s drive-thru window, like the rest of the shop, will be ready to take your debit card or mobile pay app. “We’re constantly looking the regs, and how banking laws will change,” Smith says. “It is absolutely built-in.”

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Plant-based chef Stacey Dougan aims to reinvent edible cannabis

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BY BROCK RADKE Have you noticed that most edibles or cannabis-infused snacks are sweet stuff like cookies and gummies? And let’s not even get started on the cliché of brownies. Stacey Dougan noticed. A vegan chef for more than two decades who created and operated the Simply Pure restaurant at Downtown Container Park for more than seven years, Dougan naturally started dabbling in cannabis when legalization arrived, and she quickly spotted her path. “First of all, I just don’t have a sweet tooth like that,” she jokes. “But I wanted something healthy. Certainly with cannabis but also with vegan food back in the day, it takes time for people to catch up to change, and eating [healthy] requires a mind shift.” If you’ve tasted her cannabis-infused dehydrated kale chips, you’re probably ready for the shift. Dougan closed Simply Pure in March 2021, not because of the pandemic, but because she was ready to move on to other projects, including those in the cannabis space. She was able to take a bit of a hiatus last year and spend lots of time with her 7-year-old son Zion, but now the break is over. Dougan had already started creating and hosting infused dinner experiences before she developed a line of organic edibles during the pandemic. She showed off some of her latest creations at a September event, inviting friends and influencers and selling a few tickets, too. “I didn’t want to charge very much, but my team was like, we got this,” she says. “We sold tickets for $250 and sold them out, and I was shocked. But it shows that this really works, and it started a transition from then to now where I’m figuring out exactly what part of this space I want to work in.” With consumption lounges on the way, Dougan can envision a future where her products and cuisine will have a bigger stage on which to shine. A new partnership could put her organic, infused cooking oils on the market soon, and she has stepped into a leadership role as a member of the executive board of the recently formed Chamber of Cannabis, a nonprofit entity working to build the young industry into an inclusive community. And then there’s Simple Diner, sort of the next generation of Simply Pure, a restaurant concept Dougan assembled with a few partners to compete in the Great Coffee Shop Giveaway Contest. Simple Diner is one of six finalists presenting their plans and their food to a panel of judges, with the winner receiving the keys to a fully designed, built-out and equipped restaurant space in Downtown Las Vegas, courtesy of Dapper Companies. As part of the contest, Simple Diner will be taking its turn cooking and serving at Vegas Test Kitchen, on April 29 and 30. “We came together and formed a team in an organic way and put together our proposal in two weeks,” Dougan says. “We knew we were in there. We’re preparing for the win regardless of whether we get the space, because we work so well together. And we’re all cannabis consumers, so that makes it even better.” Chef Stacey Dougan with cannabis-infused kale chips

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Exhale Brands changes the vaporizer game by taking on a familiar form BY EVELYN MATEOS

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Since their introduction in 2016, Apple’s AirPods have become both wildly popular and a fashionable status symbol. The concept is amazing—a compact, almost completely mobile wireless device that comes in its own charging case. What more could a consumer ask for? Pete Findley, CEO of Las Vegas-based Exhale Brands, was also enamored of the AirPods concept, and noted the public’s affinity for it. “We really liked the form factor, how it fit in your pocket really well,” he says. “The problem with most vape pens—a lot of vape pens—is they’re like a pencil or pen; they’re really long. If you sit down, it can be awkward. We wanted to bring a disruptive product to the market. It’s very different than anything else out there.” Exhale’s AirBuds, which launch on April 16 at dispensaries throughout Nevada, have other features in common with AirPods aside from approximating their size and shape. The product comes in a rechargeable case. When you open it, you’ll find the pen, along with an extra cartridge. According to their testing, Findley says, the battery can last through anywhere from 8 to 10 cartridges. Plus, the case sports a battery meter, so you’re are always aware of how much charge the case is carrying. The All-in-One Vape Starter Kit retails for $100, and two-pack half gram replacement pod cartridges cost $50. Additionally, Exhale Brands is planning to release silicone cases with carabiner clips, to make carrying your pen around easy. “It’s incredibly well built. When you feel it, it feels like Apple [products],” Findley says. “There’s a lot of importance to that, because it feels like such high quality.”

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Cannabidiol all over Local CBD treatments bring spa day to a new level BY SHANNON MILLER The past two years have been a time of unprecedented stress on society as a whole. And that calls for a spa day with all the bells and whistles. Cannabidiol products can help the rejuvenation really sink in. The compound, more commonly known as CBD, is found in cannabis and can be manufactured in a lab. Clinical studies, which are in early stages, can be expected to affirm what many CBD consumers already have discovered for themselves—that it can help with conditions like chronic pain, anxiety and even addiction. Here are some CBD-added spa day ideas to bring your relaxation to a whole new level.

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Therapists at the Spa at the Mirage can customize any of the massages on the menu, including customized massages for athletes and couples, with a CBD-infused serum. $205-$380; mgmresorts.com. Waldorf Astoria Spa offers CBD oil and CBD cream enhancements for their massages. Add them to a Thai Fusion or warm stone massage to target and restore extra-tense spots. $210-$455; waldorfastorialasvegas.com. Caesars properties including Paris Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood offer a Wellness Ritual Massage, which uses massage techniques to work the healing compound deep into muscles. The result is a relaxed nervous system, and relief from aches, sore muscles, arthritis, sprains, strains and inflammation. $195$305; caesars.com.

Sore hands and feet can find intense relief with a manicure or pedicure enhanced with a blend of 100 milograms of broad-spectrum CBD. Broad-spectrum CBD contains additional cannabinoids and beneficial terpenes from the cannabis plant. Combined with exfoliating dead sea salt and calming lavender essential oil, the treatment leaves the extremities feeling hydrated, nourished and soothed. $115-$145; Color Salon at Caesars Palace; caesars.com. PAIN SPOT TREATMENT As an add-on to existing massages, pain spot treatment can nip pain in the bud with water-soluble CBD. The water-soluble formula is designed to absorb quickly for maximum impact, and is combined with botanical ingredients. $240-$330; available at the Spa at the Linq, Spa at Flamingo Las Vegas, the Spat at Harrah’s Las Vegas and Qua Baths & Spa at Caesars; caesars.com. (Courtesy)

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The cultural holiday of 4/20 is special for cannabis users around the world. Though the origins of this observance are disputed, the festivities are universal: It’s a day to enjoy cannabis products in any and all forms. Whether you celebrate only on April 20 or honor 4/20 every day, here are some of our favorite products to try on this highly anticipated holiday.

Featuring a 1:1:1 formulation of CBG, CBD and THC, each package includes 20 pieces with 5mg THC in each piece.

Rolled up and ready to smoke, Blue Birds PreRolls are a convenient and effective way to consume cannabis. They’re sold as singles or in packages of three (at 1 gram per preroll) and made with the highest quality flower to ensure a robust, flavorful experience. They’re available in a variety of hybrid and sativa strains, including Mimosa Hybrid, Crossfire Hurricane Hybrid, Fortune Cookies Sativa, Gas Monkey Sativa, Gorilla Glue Sativa, Layer Cake Hybrid and Old School Lemons Sativa.

Convenience and variety. Everyone likes the friend with pre-rolls. Spend less time rolling and more time socializing thanks to this pre-prepped option.

Developed in the Deep Roots Harvest Extraction Lab, Gold Rush Concentrates feature the most premium oil processed from high-quality cannabis to exacting standards. The brand offers concentrates in all forms — vape blends, live resin, shatter, wax and other products.

Sporting a gold miner theme, Prospectors features eight unique distillate vape blends available in three forms of official CCELL hardware, including .5mL cartridge, 1mL cartridge and .5mL disposable vape pen. Those blends are: Grape Ape, Strawberry Cough, XJ-13, Northern Lights, Gelato, Forbidden Fruit, Wedding Cake and Jack. Prospector blends are never cut with ethanol or other chemicals.

Though dependent on a variety of physical factors, concentrates typically take effect immediately upon consumption and can last several hours in duration. Effects vary by user.

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° Chocolate Taffy Chews feature 10mg of THC per chew and a ° Indica cocoa fix for chocolate lovers. Hybrid Strawberry Taffy Chews feature 10mg of hybrid °blended THC oil in each serving and bright, fruity flavor. Hybrid Caramel Taffy Chews feature 10mg of hybrid ° blended THC oil for a sticky, sweet bite. Sleepy Chocolate Taffy Chews offer a 2:1 THC:CBN ° formulation with 20 pieces in a package and 5mg of THC in each Hybrid Sour Apple Chews are infused with 10mg of high-grade hybrid blend THC oil in each serving.

chew, providing an option with slightly less cannabis per piece than other flavors.

Joy. Cheeba Chews are little, pillowy squares of happiness. Effects for all varieties can last several hours and vary by user.

Helix gummies come in a variety of flavors and cannabis types, including sativas, indicas and hybrids. They’re made with 100% Nevada-grown cannabis and thoughtfully produced in Mesquite.

The Boomtown brand uses 100% Nevada-grown and lab-tested flower to produce the finest, cleanest, highest-quality dabs. Boomtown offers concentrates in all forms—batter, crumble, diamonds, shatter and sugar.

Potency. Concentrates offer a good, clean, potent high. They’re also ideal for individuals who have developed a tolerance to flower or edibles or who prefer vaping over smoking.

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ROCKIN’ Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend swings into its 25th year bigger and better than ever BY AMBER SAMPSON

(Left) Classic style and cars at Viva Las Vegas (Julie Bergonz/Courtesy) (Right) Dance Lessons (Mike Harrington/Courtesy)

It appears like something out of a time capsule. Vintage hot rods, optimized for speed and power, idle in the car parks. Women coolly lean against them, their bullet bras and ankle-cut pin-up jeans fitting effortlessly into the aesthetic. Meanwhile, the men shamelessly primp their pompadours, because if there’s anything we know about rockabilly fashion, it’s that voluminous hair is a must. This is the scene the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend has fostered over the last 25 years. More than 9,000 people attend Viva over four days of music, burlesque, shopping, tiki pool parties and car shows. What started as just a retro 1950s rock ‘n’ roll weekender at the Gold

Coast has exploded in size, moved to the Orleans and become not only the longest-running music festival in Las Vegas, but the largest rockabilly event in the world. “I didn’t know if it was gonna be long term or not, so we treated each one as a special event,” says Tom Ingram, DJ, promoter and founder of Viva. “But it got to a stage where literally the Gold Coast was bursting at the seams. We had more people for Viva Las Vegas staying in the Orleans than the Gold Coast had a total number of rooms.”

Before Viva came to fruition, Ingram founded the incredibly successful Hemsby Rock ’n’ Roll Weekender in England. He had high hopes of bringing the event to Southern California when he moved in 1996, but after being ripped off by a business partner, he was left with no money or potential income. It took time to rebuild, Ingram says, but once he did, he decided to reroute the weekender to Las Vegas for its 24-hour appeal. Meanwhile, “the

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STEADY guy in England who ripped me off was going around telling everyone, very vocally, ‘Who does Tom think he is, trying to do an event in Vegas? You can’t do rockabilly in Vegas,’” he says. But Ingram pressed on. Several casinos rejected the idea before he reconnected with talent agent Seymour Heller, an old acquaintance who had managed a number of stars, most notably The Treniers and Liberace. “He goes, ‘Oh, a friend of mine does entertainment at the Gold Coast. I’ll put you in touch with him.’ Within a week, I was at the Gold Coast sitting down for a meeting with all the heads of department to organize Viva Las Vegas.” Viva debuted in Vegas in 1997, shaking up the local culture. “At the time, unless you were over 60 years old, the entertainment in Vegas sucked. We were the first ones to really cater to this much younger audience,” Ingram says. “From the very beginning, we had Vegas locals from all different music scenes coming to the weekenders because it was the only big event like that to cater to them.” Alisha Alexander remembers

those early days well. She attended the very first Viva as a fan, and many others after that as a journalist. One of her fondest festival memories is of dancing on stage with Little Richard during his last public performance. “There were probably 20,000 people at that show,” she remembers. Alexander now works as the festival’s publicist, and has seen her share of positive changes. “It started out [being]really 99% about the music, and maybe the other 1% were the clothes and the cars,” she says. But now? “The fashion is almost like art,” Alexander says, adding that you generally don’t see hundreds of people in 1950s-inspired outfits outside of Viva. “It’s like being in the middle of a fashion show. That element always existed from the very beginning, but it got amplified ... It started to feel like a rockabilly Disneyland.” Much of what makes Viva great today happened organically over time. Ingram says the car show that now draws up to 20,000 people started as just dedicated parking for the safety of vintage vehicles. And the wildly popular Burlesque Bingo and annual pin-up contest became a permanent

fixture of the festival after performer Audrey DeLuxe suggested it had a place in the “retro mecca” that is Viva. “[Tom] wants people within his own community to work with him,” Alexander says. “It’s a bunch of music lovers, a bunch of car lovers, a bunch of burlesque lovers. People who attend his events who he knows, and sees something in.” Now DeLuxe serves as the assistant organizer of Viva and co-produces all of the burlesque events, and the chance to bring her craft to Viva means more than anyone could know. “It allowed me the opportunity to do what I’ve always wanted to do: Be a full-time producer and performer,” she says. “It sounds a little over the top, but he did make my dreams come true, coming from the South and moving here.” Other additions over the years, such as organizing festival meetup groups for LGBTQ members or for women attending the festival alone, have positioned Viva as a safe space for all fans. “Too many promoters have an image of being a suit who sits in an office and just counts the money,”

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Ingram says. “But for me, Viva Las Vegas has to be an event that I would pay to go to. … If I look at my ideas and think, ‘No, I wouldn’t,’ then I have to rethink them. But I’ve always listened to everyone else’s ideas.” But the one thing that’s remained constant about Viva over its first quarter-century is its commitment to the music. From Jerry Lee Lewis to Wanda Jackson, the festival has hosted its share of rock royalty. Ingram has plenty of great musical memories from Viva, he says, among them a performance by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ruth Brown. “She hadn’t performed her ’50s rock ’n’ roll for a very long time, and I persuaded her to do it,” he recalls. “Right before she went on stage, she said, ‘If they throw tomatoes at me, I’m going to blame you.’ ... She couldn’t have gone down better. She was so happy.” Another significant feather in Ingram’s cap was booking Chuck Berry, who he had originally heard was a difficult get. He realized other promoters just hadn’t read Berry’s contracts carefully. “These stories about him demanding cash before going on stage were because the promoter didn’t get the right guitar amp,” he says. “We got two of them just in case. … He liked the band we put with him, you could see that on his face. It was a good show.” This year, Viva Las Vegas will feature 80 bands, 30 DJs, more than 100 vendors and everything else rockabilly enthusiasts have come to know, love and adore about the festival. Ingram will also receive a Key to the City from Mayor Carolyn Goodman for the milestone anniversary. And though it is a special year, he says the party will commence like any other. “We’re not trying to make the biggest festival,” he says. “We’re just trying to represent our scene.”

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WELCOME BACK TO VEGAS Harry Reid International Airport— which served just under 40 million travelers in 2021—was ranked as the 10th-busiest airport in the world, according to Airports Council International, an international airport trade association. The busiest was Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.

FOOD TRUCK UKRAINE REFUGEE FUNDRAISER Honey Salt is teaming up with local food truck Custom Pizza to host a fundraising event to benefit Ukrainian refugees on April 20 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Rampart Commons center at the corner of West Charleston and Rampart.

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Christy McCormick, vice chair of U.S. Election Assistance Commission, is hearing a similar message from officials who run elections nationwide: Supply shortages could bring delays as they order the paper and envelopes needed for upcoming primary and midterm elections. The dilemma is the result of the global supply chain issues coupled with an increase in demand for paper brought on by the pandemic, leaving ballot vendors worried about not getting their supply in time for the elections. Lawmakers in Nevada, which has more than 1.7 million registered voters, passed a law last year directing election officials to send every registered voter a mail-in ballot, unless they choose to opt out. Some counties, such as Nye, are also pushing for 100% paper ballot elections. Both processes will require election officials to increase their paper supply to print ballots. The Nevada secretary of state’s office has known about the shortage for months and has reached out to county officials to make sure they were aware of the issue and recommended that they confirm with their ballot suppliers that they will get their supply in time. Joe Gloria, Clark County registrar of voters, said he confirmed with the

county’s vendors that the paper shortage would not affect Clark County in printing ballots or sample ballots for the 2022 election. The county has two vendors: One is a local and does sample ballots; the other provides mail-in ballots and the envelopes those ballots require. “The mail ballot vendor has a proactive policy of ordering in August for regular years,” Gloria said. “The local vendor … already ordered their paper, and as far as we know there will be no drastic price increase.” Clark County notwithstanding, with primary elections already started nationally and the November midterms quickly approaching, the potential hiccup has caught the attention of federal lawmakers. Rep Rodney Davis, R-Ill., brought together election officials and paper vendors to address the issue. Nevada’s small counties report they also aren’t facing a shortage. The Las Vegas Sun contacted clerks in Washoe, Humboldt, Nye, Lincoln and Lyon counties, all of whom said they have been proactive in ordering. While the paper shortage is a global problem, with newspapers in Sri Lanka, for instance, deciding to halt printing, many of the U.S. paper mills have closed over the last several years, exacerbating the supply problem for U.S. vendors. -Jessica Hill

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SNEAK PEEK AT UNLV FOOTBALL UNLV football is hosting its annual Spring Showcase at Allegiant Stadium at 5 p.m. April 23. The best part: It’s free and open to the public. Parking is also free. The showcase, which is usually conducted on campus, is expected to run 90 minutes. SPORTS

ACES BOLSTER ROSTER WINDS UP TO 60 MPH RAKE LAS VEGAS AREA Unusually gusty winds swept through parts of Nevada on April 11, spurring a dust storm warning in metro Las Vegas. High gusts between 30-40 mph were reported around Nellis Air Force Base and areas of greater Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas were

among the cities impacted. Cameras on I-15 at the California-Nevada border showed powerful, frenzied winds. The National Weather Service had warned that there was less than a quarter-mile visibility with winds going at more than 60 mph. –Staff

WINK ADAMS AMONG NEW UNLV HALL OF FAMERS This month, Wink Adams, the star of the Sweet 16 basketball team in 2007, was pegged for induction into the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame. “UNLV basketball is all about legacy. It’s a family, man. Larry Johnson, Robert Smith and all of those guys from the 1970s until now,” said Adams, who is the program’s lone four-time all-conference honoree in the post-Jerry Tarkanian

Howdy, partner: A 20-foot-tall replica of Fremont Street’s iconic neon cowboy Vegas Vic hangs over the future location of Vic’s, a restaurant and jazz bar currently under construction adjacent to the Smith Center in Downtown’s Symphony Park neighborhood. (Corlene Byrd/Las Vegas Weekly)

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The Weekly Superguide on March 31 incorrectly reported that A Public Fit’s production of Things I Know To Be True is a musical and based in a midwest American setting. Like the original Australian production, it is scored with music (designed by Alan Holton), and is set in Hallett Cove, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia.

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era. “It’s a great feeling to be alongside them.” Adams highlights the university’s first Hall of Fame class in five years, joining the likes of UNLV Football’s all-time leading receiver Ryan Wolfe, swimming coach Jim Reitz (14 conference titles in 35 seasons) and Therese Koelbaek, the best women’s golfer in school history and a three-time All-American. -Ray Brewer

The Las Vegas Aces selected Mya Hollingshed with the eighth overall pick in the WNBA Draft on April 11. Hollingshed enjoyed a tremendously productive collegiate career at Colorado, and her experience and maturity should allow the 6-foot-3 forward to contribute in a Las Vegas frontcourt that features former league MVP A’ja Wilson but is losing All-Star center Liz Cambage. Hollingshed played 141 games at Colorado and started 86 contests, averaging 11.9 points and 6.5 rebounds during her time with the Buffaloes. The Aces followed up the Hollingshed pick by taking a pair of guards at No. 11 and No. 13. Florida Gulf Coast’s Kierstan Bell was the choice at 11th overall, while LSU’s Khayla Pointer was the first pick of the second round. Bell stuffed the stat sheet as a junior in 2021-22, producing 22.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.1 steals. Pointer was a four-year starter at LSU and posted 19.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 5.3 assists as a senior this past season. –Mike Grimala

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Nevada’s cannabis and hemp industries continue adjusting to the changing landscape BY SHANNON MILLER

his year, Nevada’s cannabis industry celebrates five years of legal recreational sales. In that time, the number of dispensaries has grown from 55 to 92 statewide. Those establishments brought in more than $1 billion in taxable sales last fiscal year, for a total of $157.7 million in excise tax in 2021. Compared to 2017-2018, the recreational industry’s fledgling fiscal year, that’s an increase of 67% in the number of dispensaries and an increase of 89.4% in taxable sales—not to mention the dispensary license fees that the state rakes in, which totaled more than $5.2 million in 2020. Hashing out the numbers, the cannabis industry seems to be delivering

on promises made when Nevadans still were grappling with how they’d vote on the 2016 ballot initiative that legalized recreational sales. Advocates often referenced how a recreational industry could bolster revenues, which could then be used for schools and other areas of the state that lack funding. Per Nevada law, that $157.7 million in excise taxes from last year will go into the state’s distributive schools account to fund education. The Source, which started with one medical and recreational dispensary in 2017 and has expanded to four retail locations including Reno, has launched a second cultivation facility and increased its production size nearly fivefold over the past three years. “We

were cultivating a little less than 1,000 pounds per year about three years ago. And now, our goal [and we’re very close to it] is to cultivate 5,000 pounds per year out of both facilities,” says Aaron Nino, chief operating officer of cultivation facilities for the Source. One of the biggest changes he has noticed in the industry is the ability to cultivate indoors, increasing efficiency and scaling up production. Camp’s indoor growing facility uses LED lights, allowing for up to 24 hours of sunlight and expedited growth. As opposed to one annual harvest for cannabis plants grown outdoors, Nino says Camp will reach a goal of 5,000 pounds of cultivated product if it can get six to eight harvests out of each of its rooms. Such

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an operation requires daily tending of the plants, so Camp has hired more employees as it has scaled up. Not every dispensary has its own cultivation facility. But overall, Nevada dispensaries have added thousands of jobs in recent years—from 6,000 in 2018 to 8,200 employees working in cannabis establishments in 2021. According to an annual report from the Nevada Cannabis Association, there were 2,000 additional jobs created by the industry that weren’t directly in cannabis establishments. 

you can utilize it for animal feed, for grain, for oil, for the roots, for whatever other purposes,” Morawska says. But the infrastructure to process hemp crops is virtually nonexistent in the state and across the country, she explains. “Without the ability to process at that scale, we’re kind of pinching out the small grower, and we’re also making it really difficult for the larger growers to come in.” Robinson says development of the industrial hemp sector in Nevada also has been “stymied” by expensive licensing fees and additional regulations that have cropped up over the past few years, making cultivation of hemp more “cumbersome.” Applying for a hemp grower certificate now costs $900 (compared to $500 before 2020)—not to mention fees per acre of production and charges for state inspections. He says the full economic benefits of hemp remain largely untapped in Nevada.

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(Left) Hemp is produced for research. (ML Robinson, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension) (Below) Plants are cloned at the Source’s cultivation facility. (Courtesy/ The Source)

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After the legalization of recreational cannabis sales in Nevada in 2016, the federal 2018 Farm Bill broadened parameters for the cultivation of industrial hemp—a variety of cannabis plant that contains little to no THC. Since 1937, hemp was prohibited by federal law along with the cannabis variety that can get you high, marijuana. Eyes bulged at the potential to legally grow and process the plant, especially for its derived compounds called “cannabinoids,” which includes the popular cannabidiol (CBD). Research into the health and medical benefits of such compounds is still in early stages and inconclusive. That didn’t stop demand and production of hemp derivatives like CBD, however. According to the Nevada Department of Agriculture, which oversees the state hemp program and certifications, the bill led to rapid growth in the number of certificate holders and acreage for the crop—from 115 certified growers with 1,880 acres in 2018, to 213 growers with 14,693 acres in 2019. But in 2020, the number of growers plummeted to 116 with less than half the acreage of the previous year, and further decreased in 2021. As of April 4, there are now 13 certified hemp growers with 246 acres in Nevada. Cannabis legal expert and president of consulting firm Hemp Ace International Joy Beckerman says many growers joined the hemp industry in 2019, only to find out that there was no legal market for CBD and other cannabinoids. Per federal law, CBD cannot be sold as food or dietary supplements.

Those who were looking to get in on the hemp derivative market had to absorb sunk costs, or went out of business largely because of widespread misunderstanding of the federal regulations surrounding CBD and other cannabinoids, which the 2018 Farm Bill did not change. “The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill has led to the misperception that all products made from or containing hemp, including those made with CBD, are now legal to sell in interstate commerce,” reads a 2019 testimony from Food and Drug Administration Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Amy Abernethy. “At present, any CBD food or purported dietary supplement products in interstate commerce is in violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.” Without being able to market their product, growers across the country ended up storing thousands of gallons of hemp distillate. “Everyone lost money across the board, except for folks that were vertically integrated, or had contracts that paid,” Beckerman explains. Other states, including New York, have developed regulations for hemp derivatives like CBD to be sold outside of cannabis dispensaries. Since the 2018 Farm Bill passed, the FDA has not created the regulatory framework that is necessary for the hemp extract market to thrive, Beckerman says. “It has left the states to decide … are we going to allow you to market these hemp extract products as dietary supplements and food additives?” In addition to legal loopholes, hemp experts say a lack of infrastructure to process industrial hemp and new state rules and regulations have further inhibited economic growth. Assistant professor and state specialist M.L. Robinson and horticulturalist Marysia Morawska with UNR Cooperative Extension have spent decades researching best practices for growing and producing industrial hemp. Aside from cannabinoids, hemp can be processed for other uses, including textiles and sturdy building materials. “The intent of industrial hemp would be to use the plant for … quadruple-purpose crops, so that

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Amyl and the Sniffers These Melbourne punksters have earned noteworthy comparisons to Iggy & The Stooges and other notables of our thrash-and-wail past. Frontwoman Amy Taylor is a human livewire, crackling with feral energy on stage and in the studio. You can hear it in the band’s frenzied 2021 release Comfort to Me, in which Taylor hollers her declarations with all the brash bravado and spikiness of Wendy O. Williams in her prime. Come ready to rock as Amyl and The Sniffers prime the crowd for the arrival of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. April 17-18, 7 p.m., $40-$70, Event Lawn at Virgin, etix.com. –AS Flume A veteran of Coachellas and EDC Weeks past, the future bass pioneer born Harley Edward Streten returns to Las Vegas with a bunch of unheard material added to his already impressive repertoire (Palaces, his first album of new material since 2016’s Skin, drops in late May). We won’t predict what Flume will do with this festival-like outdoor set—his openers, fellow 2022 Coachella participant Floating Points and Chrome Sparks, which played the fest in 2014, make this show a fullfledged satellite Mojave Tent— but if we get “Lose It” and the audacious remix of Eiffel 65’s “Blue,” we’ll flume home happy. April 14, 8 p.m., $50-$150, Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, seetickets.us. –GC

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard As you read this, there’s a good chance King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have put out new music. The psychedelic rock sextet from Melbourne, Australia, is wildly prolific—20 albums in 10 years—and though the band draws from the progressive rock well more often than not, it has also flirted with synth-pop and even glam while keeping the grooves airtight. And their live show is a joy. The last time we saw King Gizzard outside at Virgin—in the Hard Rock days—members of the band took a dip in the pool, and returned to the stage to keep playing. We should all have so much fun on the job. April 17-18, 7 p.m., $40-$70, Event Lawn at Virgin, etix.com. –GC

Beabadoobee This bedroom-pop connoisseur’s first five EPs are essential listening for fans of the up-andcoming artist, but if you want to become a fan, start with Beabadoobee’s 2020 full-length debut, Fake It Flowers. Over the course of 12 tracks, it proves that this Filipino-British singer-songwriter is absolutely ripe for stardom. Beabadoobee so thoroughly resurrects the “slacker rock” of the ’90s, you can almost see the flannel in your periphery. She’s confessional, soft-spoken and easily one of Gen-Z’s most refreshing new voices. Catch her set when she rolls into town with support from Mannequin Pussy and Luna Li. April 18, 7 p.m., $24$47, 24 Oxford, etix.com. –AS

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Omar Apollo This bilingual barrier-breaker switches as fluidly between languages as he does genres. Breakout album Apolonio brought listeners into Apollo’s world of lush guitar funk, R&B and Chicano soul. The artist draws from a diverse well of talent—think Bootsy Collins, Frank Ocean and the shirtless “How Does It Feel” era of D’Angelo. The Weekly recently spoke with Apollo about his new album, Ivory. Read more about it at lasvegasweekly.com before he plays Brooklyn Bowl with Deb Never and Tora-i. April 19, 7 p.m., $23-$28, Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. –AS

Orville Peck Who is that leather-fringe masked man? Three years on from the release of his critically-acclaimed debut Pony, the true identity of Orville Peck remains a mystery. We know this much: He’s Canadian, he’s proudly gay, and he makes soulful, inventive and starkly gorgeous country music that owes as much to Nick Cave and The Smiths as to Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. His latest album, Bronco, builds on Pony’s foundations while also deepening them, reaching further back into tradition and further ahead into invention. Who and what Orville Peck is can be fully divined through his art. April 22, 8 p.m., $55+, House of Blues, ticketmaster.com. –GC

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Buzzy Lee It’s likely that musician and actress Sasha Spielberg records under the name Buzzy Lee to avoid using her famous filmmaking father’s name, but listening to her 2020 debut LP, Spoiled Love, it’s clear she has paved her own way. The singer-songwriter projects an immense, quiet confidence right from the jump, layering her piano-and-voice tracks with warm synths and subtle downtempo beats. Spielberg’s dreamily cinematic songs should easily win over a Vegas audience primed to see her musical contemporaries in headlining trio Haim. April 24, 8 p.m., $40-$90, the Chelsea, ticketmaster.com. –GC

Yola Recent two-time Grammy nominee Yola—née Yolanda Claire Quatney— is the kind of musical polymath that knocks down barriers simply by following her artistic curiosity. The eye sees a Black woman making her way into the predominately white realm of country music (those Grammy nominations were in the Americana and American roots categories). But the ear hears richly layered, organic compositions that evoke classic country and R&B in equal measure, with Yola’s dreamy, affecting vocals uniting all. Americana, indeed: Yola interprets multiple American musical forms simultaneously, to near-perfection. April 26, 7:30 p.m., $30, House of Blues, ticketmaster.com. –GC

Flume (Nick Green), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Jason Galea), Amyl and the Sniffers (Jamie Wdziekonski), Beabadoobee (Virgin Hotels Las Vegas), Omar Apollo (Gustavo Garcia Villa), Orville Peck (Julia Johnson), Black Coffee (AP), Buzzy Lee (Harry McNally), Disclosure (Resorts World Las Vegas), Yola (Joseph Ross Smith) (All photos courtesy except Black Coffee)

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Black Coffee There’s no sleeping on this Grammy award-winning deep house producer. Considered one of South Africa’s top DJs, Black Coffee has kept crowds grooving worldwide for more than two decades. In one instance, he even breezed through a 60-hour set, DJing with just one hand. With that kind of stamina, we’re confident he’ll have plenty of Coachella energy to spare for a Vegas audience. April 23, 10:30 p.m., $20-$30, Marquee Nightclub, events.taogroup.com. –AS

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(left) The stairway to the rooftop patio of new Downtown nightspot We All Scream (bottom) “Cones” on first floor bar counter (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)

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he two-story, 10,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor Downtown nightclub We All Scream is set for a big debut this week, with Dutch trance DJ Menno de Jong scheduled to break in its stunning new sound system and choreographed LED displays on April 15. But no matter what you’ve heard or haven’t heard about this next nightlife venue from Corner Bar Management, you’re probably not ready for We All Scream. It’s a mind blower, essentially three spots in one with two outdoor dance floors that will bring the beats simultaneously. It’s a floorto-ceiling celebration of street art, saturated with murals from renowned groups PichiAvo and Bicicleta Sem Freio. And perhaps most importantly, it’s the culmination of Corner Bar’s aggressive reconceptualizing of the iconic first block of East Fremont Street, where the company opened Commonwealth next door 10 years ago. Almost forgot: there’s ice cream. “We’re hoping there’s a lot to explore,” says Corner Bar founder Ryan Doherty. “You can go into Commonwealth and see everything relatively quickly. Here you can spend hours in one room and then jump into another scene, maybe twice.” We All Scream is a proper nightclub, built out—along with the semi-connected new Cheapshot bar and showroom—around the former Beauty Bar and Don’t Tell Mama spaces. Doherty says the early success of Commonwealth’s rooftop bar demanded similar structures along Fremont.

“Tons of cities have streets full of rooftops, and we have nine months of summer here. It’s criminal that we don’t have more,” he says. “We built Commonwealth to be a cocktail and beer bar, casual, come as you are, but the kids took that bar over. We kept getting a bigger sound system and bigger DJs, and now it’s the de facto nightclub on Fremont Street.” In recent years, other clubs have popped up in the area, including Oddfellows at the Ogden. Then Corner Bar started grabbing up Fremont East spots, turning the former Vanguard Lounge into Lucky Day (a tequila and mezcal bar that also evolved into a dance spot because of those “kids”) and the one-time home of Insert Coin(s) into underground music spot Discopussy. The creation of We All Scream and Cheapshot dwarfs those projects, an estimated $4.5 million endeavor. Steel beams were inserted across the building’s roof line to create a spectacular second floor with two sides. In the back, a bar looks out over an art-covered alley and downstairs dance floor with a DJ booth in an ice cream truck and all the lights, speakers, murals and 3D projection mapping that would fit into the former Beauty Bar’s backyard. On the Fremont-facing side of the rooftop, another booth known as the Cone is awash in LED sprinkles that will flash and dance along with the music, plus lasers racing back and forth over the street and a sound system powerful enough to overtake the noise of the block. Back downstairs, the inside is all bar and will serve as more of a laid-back lounge, with a tiny scoop shop that will eventually serve 10 flavors (one in soft-serve) through a window onto the street during the day, and another pickup spot inside at night. Doherty has big plans to healp fund local art with ice cream sales, too. But that’s another story. For now, we have to focus on attempting to process all the semi-psychedelic, sweet and tasty visual and sonic goodness We All Scream has to offer. “There’s no way you can walk down Fremont Street and not know we’re here,” Doherty says.

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on’t know if you’ve noticed, but alternate dimensions are hot right now. Practically everybody, from Yayoi Kusama to Meow Wolf to Doctor Strange, is cracking open rifts leading to worlds beyond our own. It was only a matter of time before such a rift appeared in Downtown’s Arts District, where artists, performers and musicians have been hammering away at that dividing wall for years. Particle Ink: Speed of Dark, an interactive show created by entertainment technology firm Kaleidoco, launches April 16 in a nondescript warehouse across the street from the recently opened English Hotel. The limited-run show has an impressive pedigree; its creative team includes alumni of Cirque du Soleil and New York’s acclaimed interactive theater production Sleep No More, working in concert with secretive, Vegas-based visual art collective The Light Poets and a dozen or so other performers we’ve seen and enjoyed in other local, non-multiverse productions including Molodi’s Jason Nious, Bleach’s Darren Pitura and handbalancer/contortionist Natalie Rhae. I’m hesitant to share too many specifics about Speed of Dark itself, because nearly the entire

hourlong production is built on discovery and surprise. Executive Producer Cesar Hawas describes the show as “the place where the veil between our dimension and the third dimension and the 2.5th dimension is at its thinnest. By walking past the threshold at this place, you find yourself in a world that is inhabited by beings of pure light … The idea is that you just totally lose yourself to the experience, and explore at your leisure.” What Speed of Dark is, at its heart, is a classic hero’s journey, with villains lurking in unexpected corners. Performers range all over the space, at one point literally running up the walls. Laser-light rain cascades from the ceiling; characters materialize in handheld mirrors; someone actually rides a unicorn. And if at any point in the show, you become aware of the stagecraft being used—puppetry, augmented reality displays and projection-mapped imagery closely interact, complementing and feeding off each other—it’s only a matter of seconds before something new draws your attention. The interplay of technology and performance is impressive, but it’s not the point of the show, says Jennifer Tuft, Particle Ink’s co-CEO (with Cassandra Rosenthal). It’s all about where that

interplay takes you. “It’s not, this is a really cool technology; let’s use it in the story,” Tuft says. “It’s, what is the impetus of this story? What is the heart of the story, and how does that best prove itself through technology that is virtual in its nature but communal in its actuality? You’re not putting any middleware on; you’re holding the hand of your loved one, and you’re watching something together, experiencing the magic of what entertainment technology can bring to the surface.” Particle Ink: Speed of Dark is scheduled to run 12 weeks, concluding on July 17. But the story might not end there. The show’s website calls Speed of Dark “the first original live immersive experience from the Particle Ink metaverse,” implying that more portals to this universe might open, someday, somehow, somewhere. Or, Hawas suggests, this portal could linger, if enough explorers run through it. “We hope that the community rallies around us and that we can stay a bit longer,” Hawas says. “It’s a pop-up installation that we hope to find a home for, here [in the Arts District] or somewhere else in Vegas. But we’re hyper-focused on the next 12 weeks.”

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ood Bad Delicious, more concisely known as GBD, is the food truck offspring of husband-and-wife team Raquel and Michael Van Staden. While Raquel takes the lead on frontof-house operations, classically trained industry veteran Mikey mans the kitchen, offering a rotating selection of international fare reflecting the couple’s love of street food. And our culinary scene is better off for having them here. With a setup that would make most brick-and-mortar restaurants jealous, GBD is clearly designed from the chef’s standpoint. The mobile kitchen’s versatility allows its operators to offer a vast culinary variety. Pides are a hallmark, canoe-shaped Turkish flatbread pizzas found rarely found elsewhere in our Valley. Baked in-truck in a heavy-duty convection oven—which the chef also uses for breakfast sandwich bun baking for midday Saturday stints at Khoury’s Wine & Spirits on Eastern—the dough for the pides cooks up super-crisp around the edges, providing a

TACOS AT THE DINER n There’s something about those silver, bullet-shaped restaurants. We’ve had amazing luck dining at different eateries that have taken over buildings once occupied by 1950s-themed chain 5 & Diner. We’ve enjoyed killer sushi, fantastic Hawaiian plate lunch and amazing Chicago-style Italian beef sandwiches in these odd environments. So expectations were high when we finally tried out Taqueria Casa Del Sabor on Sahara, a brick-and-mortar expansion of a taco pop-up that’s been operating for years Downtown at Las Vegas Boulevard and Bonanza Road. And once again, the diner didn’t disappoint. Casa Del Sabor is another super-casual joint where two griddled corn tortillas swaddling your favorite meat—maybe al pastor, carne asada, chicken, chorizo or birria—make up the foundation of the menu. The simple tacos ($2-$2.50) are small yet satisfying, and you can upgrade to tacos rancheros ($4.50$5) for cheese, beans, guac and sour cream, or tacos gringas ($6-$7) in flour tortillas with cheese and avocado. Tortas, burritos, quesadillas, huaraches and the ubiquitous carne asada or other meat-topped fries ($8-$11) are also available. We’ve settled on a routine: one melty mulita ($6)—sort of a crispy hybrid of sandwich and quesadilla—filled with pork belly or beef birria, and the huge Alhambre Plate No. 1 ($14), piled high with steak, pork, chorizo, ham, cheese, pineapple, onions and bell peppers with lots of tortillas on the side. It’s way too much food, but highly effective in avoiding the top tragedy when eating at your favorite local taco shop. You never want to order too few tacos. You never want to get back in that line to get a couple more. –Brock Radke

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handhold for tearing the uncut pie apart at your table. Varying options include triple cheese ($11.50), with regular shredded and buffalo mozzarella with Parmesan; a traditional cupand-char pepperoni ($13.50); and fancier prosciutto and arugula ($14). On the healthier side, Van Staden’s Mediterranean falafel pita ($14) is an epiphany. This might be the city’s best falafel since Rami Cohen departed the west side’s now-closed Sababa. The multitude of ingredients jammed into the pita alongside the falafel include beet hummus, vegan lemon pepper aioli, pickled sumac onions and quinoa, and that could be a muddled mess in lesser hands. But the flavors and textures blend wonderfully without overpowering the falafel, and since the wrap is already healthy enough, pay the $2 tariff and upgrade to feta fries. Finish with a Shut the F*ck Up Cupcake ($6), a chocolate cupcake with a dulce de leche molten center topped with vanilla frosting and a sprinkling of crispy bacon bits. It’s exactly the shot of sweetness you need to close out a meal. While the menu currently leans Mediterranean, it’s unlikely to remain that way as the Van Stadens’ culinary journey progresses. St. Patrick’s Day saw the unveiling of Reuben eggrolls and shepherd’s pie. One can only hope we’ll eventually see boerewors, a mincedmeat sausage from Mikey’s homeland of South Africa.

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ing with noted local trainer Mike Waters to open a pair of state-of-the-art Phase 1 Sports gyms. Phase 1 specialized in getting draft prospects ready for the NFL combine and pro days, on which they have a chance to perform in front of teams. But Henness came away disturbed by what he witnessed ing with the Jets late last season. with many of the players. “The dream is to sit back on draft day and “I was meeting these guys transitioning hear your name called,” Jones says. “Last from college to the NFL who couldn’t get year, we had [offensive lineman] D’Ante their agents on the phone,” Henness said. “I Smith out of East Carolina, and he was a go, ‘How can you sign a kid and go cheap on fourth-round pick to the Cincinnati Bengals it?’ I was watching the meals some of these and literally ended up playing in the Super agents were providing, and it was a boiled Bowl. That was really special, but we’re chicken breast and a couple orange slices. I always prepared for whatever happens.” was like, ‘How do you get better with that?’ I Another notable local Leverage client, knew I could do better. The way I looked at it former Desert Pines High/West Virginia was, I could partner with these kids.” linebacker Tony Fields, went in the fourth A chance encounter at another local gym round last year to the Cleveland Browns. led to Henness meeting Jones, who was also Fields had trained with Phase 1 and Waters looking to break into the player-represendating back to his high school days, a contation business after having worked as a tinuity that’s not uncommon with the best reporter, editor and personality covering local football players. the NFL for Fox Sports. Similar to Hen“That’s where I trained in high school ness, Jones had seen things he wanted to fix and all throughout college to help me prep in the agency world from his own vantage for the next level,” Yahyavi says. “Once I was point in media. done playing, I became a trainer and per“I’d talk to agents, and you knew the kid formance coach there … but I felt my time [would be] an undrafted free agent, and had run its course helping athletes from they’d be like, ‘He’s a second-round pick,’” the physical side. I wanted to transition to Jones says. “They’d sometimes lie to their something else, but I still knew my calling clients’ faces or … give them false expecwas helping athletes. I knew Mark was an tations. So, for us, it’s important to be raw, agent and owner of the facility, so I talked to honest and transparent with our clients.” him and the whole agency idea just clicked.” Most mock drafts have none of the three When Desert Pines recently hung Fields’ aforementioned locals Leverage jersey in a ceremony at its gym, Yahyrepresents this year getting avi, Henness and Jones were there. picked, but that can turn They also organized a get-together into an advantage for fringe with all of their players during the prospects. It allows agents to Pro Bowl at Allegiant Stadium, talk with and select the best where Molchon showed off his Sufit of the 32 NFL teams with an per Bowl ring to this year’s rookies. undrafted free-agent deal for The agents hope instilling a famitheir players. ly-like atmosphere will help Leverage John Molchon Jones obsessively tracks the Football continue to grow, and they’re rosters and schematic tendencies committed to doing it in Las Vegas. of every team to make sure his “A lot of times, agents just ship a players land in the right place. player off to Exos in San Diego [to A couple of Leverage’s prepare for the draft], and they undrafted success stories live in Florida or New York City,” include former Faith LutherJones says. “We are legitimately an/Boise State guard John here with our guys the majority of Molchon and one-time UNLV the time. Some of the time we’ll have Javin White star linebacker Javin White. Molguys that want to train at House of chon is entering his third season with the Athlete in Florida or wherever, and we’ll Buccaneers and won a Super Bowl in 2020, cater to those requests, but I think the thing while White appeared in six games with the that sets us apart is day-in and day-out, we’re Raiders over the past two years before signgoing to be here.”

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ark Henness hired outside help from sports-performance trainers eight years ago when one of his sons, Kieren Henness, wasn’t getting on the field as much as he had hoped in his junior football season at Coronado High. Within six months of specialized workouts and nutritional guidance, Kieren had transformed his body and his coverage skills as a cornerback. He had already impressed his teammates and coaches but was eager to show it off competitively when the Cougars went to a national 7-on-7 tournament in Southern California to start their summer schedule. “He lines up across from a kid that everyone knew, who had multiple Division-1 offers, and I just saw his body language—it was, ‘Man, I hope they throw this guy the ball. Let me do what I do,’” Mark Henness recalls. “That was the moment when I said, ‘I’ve got to do this for more kids, because this just changed my kid’s life.’” Mark Henness hasn’t stopped chasing that goal ever since. It led him to become a certified agent through the NFL Players Association and to start a player agency, Leverage Football, in 2016. Henness and three fellow partners/agents with local ties—UNLV graduate Ross Jones, former Sierra Vista High/Murray State cornerback Darian Yahyavi and former Silverado High/Air Force wide receiver Spencer Armstrong—have steadily grown Leverage ever since. Henness, Jones and Yahyavi are based in Las Vegas, while Armstrong works out of Florida. The quartet signed their largest class yet—13 professional football hopefuls—going into this year’s NFL Draft, which takes place April 28-30 on the Las Vegas Strip. That group includes three locals: former Centennial High/Utah State receiver Savon Scarver, former Desert Pines/UNLV receiver Randal Grimes and former Palo Verde/ UNR defensive end Kameron Toomer. “Vegas is an underrepresented market as far as colleges coming to recruit here, in terms of kids getting identified,” Henness says. “There are such great athletes in all sports here, so we don’t want any of our local kids to get away. We want them all—all that have the potential to play in the NFL and are willing to make the commitment to do it.” Henness initially sought only to get into the sports-performance business, partner-

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he owners of this Southern Nevada dispensary have a different business model. MJ Jameson and her parents, Florence and Frank “Gard” Jameson, plan to eventually give 70% of the profits from their Tree of Life Dispensary to Las Vegas area charities. Tree of Life opened its first location in North Las Vegas late last year. A second store will open May 14 near North Jones Boulevard and Vegas Drive. MJ Jameson said the charitable giving will begin once the dispensary becomes profitable, which she said is expected to happen in the next year or two. Florence is a community-minded OB/GYN in Las Vegas. Gard is an accountant who also teaches philosophy courses at UNLV. The pair have been active in the Las Vegas philanthropic arena for years and founded Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada in 2010. The family owns 70% of the Tree of Life operation, the reason for the 70% charitable contribution figure. “My parents don’t need the profits from this business,” MJ Jameson said. “They are givers—they are lights in our community. We appreciate that most people in the world need the profits from their business to provide their livelihood. We’re blessed to be in a position where we’re already taken care of for our livelihood.” When she was younger, MJ Jameson’s use of cannabis didn’t thrill her parents. Over time, however, she was able to provide enough information to

them, she said, to help change their opinions. After voters moved to permit legalized recreational cannabis in Nevada in 2016, the Jamesons saw an opportunity to get into the dispensary business. “At first, my mother and father didn’t see the merits of marijuana, but, being people of science, they took the good information that I produced ... and they looked at things differently,” Jameson said. “Things have certainly changed in our country as far as attitudes toward cannabis, but there’s more work to be done.” That includes the fact that dispensaries operate as cash businesses, because most banks shy away from the cannabis business due to the federal government’s classification of it as a dangerous “Schedule I”

controlled substance. Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that would decriminalize marijuana, but a bill is unlikely to pass in the Senate. On the state level, however, it’s thriving across the country, including in Nevada, where cannabis sales topped the $1 billion mark for the first time during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. Sales during the 2020 fiscal year came in at about $684 million, according to state regulators. Tim Lozott, CEO of Tree of Life and a former executive at Acres Cannabis, said he expects the industry to grow by about 15% per year during the next two or three years. “Legislative-wise, we’re really waiting on federal legalization,” Lozott said. “When that happens, dispensaries won’t go away. Alcohol is legal,

MJ Jameson at Tree of Life Dispensary (Steve Marcus/Staff)

but we still have liquor stores. The same will be the case, we think, with cannabis and dispensaries. Sure, you might be able to buy eventually at a 7-Eleven, but you can also buy beer at a 7-Eleven right now.” At the new Tree of Life space near Jones and Vegas Drive on a recent April afternoon, display cases sat ready for product. The store will have a curbside pickup and could eventually offer delivery, but not at first. Lozott said Tree of Life’s location in North Las Vegas has been received well. Along with the Jamesons, he hopes the Tree of Life brand will become synonymous with the “conscientious” cannabis consumer crowd. “We’ve heard from people who have seen our website and have told us they love our business model and that we’re giving back,” Lozott said. “We cater mostly to locals, but we like to call ourselves the ‘community dispensary.’” Until Tree of Life becomes profitable, Jameson said, customers can still give back when they make a purchase at one of the Tree of Life locations. One option is for customers to take advantage of a round-up feature that allows them to round their purchase up to the nearest dollar figure. The spare change goes to Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada. Cash machines at Tree of Life locations will also donate 60% of all ATM fees to the same charity. MJ Jameson said one of her family’s goals is to inspire other business owners in the Valley to give back to their community. “We understand 70% is a big number, but maybe others could commit to giving a different percentage,” she said. “We’re also not just going to give to charities that my parents are involved in. We’re planning to eventually take applications from potential charitable partners in town. We hope to be an example for other business owners.”

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ome cannabis dispensaries in Las Vegas gear their marketing and promotions toward attracting tourists to their shops. AYR Wellness Inc., a multistate cannabis cultivator and dispensary operator, takes a different approach at its three Las Vegas stores and one Reno location: The local consumer comes first. AYR Wellness grows and sells marijuana, and also sells vape products. It has medical marijuana offerings in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, and recreational dispensaries in Nevada, Arizona, New Jersey and Massachusetts. And it’s just getting started, according to spokeswoman Nicole Silverman. AYR Wellness will soon rebrand The Dispensary sites in the Las Vegas Valley and Reno—along with Mynt retail cannabis stores in Reno—as simply AYR. Silverman, marketing coordinator for AYR’s operations in the Western United States, spoke with Vegas Inc about the changes. What are things like in the cannabis marketplace right now in Nevada, specifically in Las Vegas? It’s an exciting time to be involved in the Las Vegas cannabis marketplace. The city is getting back to normal. Tourism is increasing, and events are being hosted throughout Las Vegas again. All that means more jobs and more income for the people who live here. Our dispensaries tend to cater more toward Las Vegas and Henderson residents, so it’s great to see our core customer base begin to thrive again.

Tell us about the branding changes. The Dispensary has been ingrained in the local community, so we want people to know that, as we change our name to AYR and update the look of our stores, none of that will go away. It’s still the same people and the same excellent customer experience that our customers know and love, but with a refreshed AYR look and feel. We’ve worked to develop a strong dispensary experience in tandem with the broader AYR team over the past few years. Now we’ll have the opportunity to improve on that experience with the addition of new products like “Road Tripper” flower, STIX Preroll Co. and additions

to our line of concentrates, vapes, edibles and beverages. Some might think the cannabis market in the Las Vegas Valley is dominated by tourists. But as you said, that’s not the case with your company. How does that make business different at your dispensaries? We operate some of the most popular dispensaries off the Strip, particularly our Henderson location. About 90% of our customers are locals, so if you want to shop like a local, we’re the place to go. Our stores have become widely known for the incredible variety that they provide, with each location having at least 1,500 different

SKUs [stock keeping units]. We have something for everybody. We want to point out the dirty little secret that most dispensaries on the Strip do not extend their sales and discounts to customers from outside of Nevada. We’re happy to extend our sales and promotions to anyone who walks through the doors, regardless of whether their identification says Nevada on it. Voters in Nevada approved the legalization of recreational cannabis in 2016, so it’s still a young industry. What’s it like operating in such a new industry? I’ve worked in the cannabis industry for around five years now, having worked with a handful of industry leaders. The industry in Las Vegas is made up of extremely passionate, knowledgeable and supportive individuals, and I’m beyond proud to have been a part of this amazing family for so long. Seeing the strides we’ve made as a community and seeing how cannabis is now ingrained in the community is why we do what we do. Because of some of the limitations due to federal laws that are still on the books, is it hard to do business in the cannabis industry? It certainly has its challenges, but that just means we get to be creative and think up solutions. For example, cannabis has traditionally been a cash-only business due to federal illegality, but we are able to take either debit card or app-based payments at all of our locations, so customers don’t have to worry about carrying around cash.

Nicole Silverman at the Dispensary, soon to be known as AYR Wellness (Steve Marcus/Staff)

What’s the next big thing for the industry in Las Vegas? I think consumption lounges are the next big thing. We’ve already begun adding to our product portfolio to accommodate this. We’re bringing more craft offerings in flower, as well as cannabis beverages for customers to enjoy in a consumption lounge setting.

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