Contributor: Joycelin Arnold
Most stoners worth their salt have heard about Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe in Hollywood, CA. After months of speculation, the country’s first cannabis public lounge made headlines everywhere!
The Las Vegas cannabis community, however, has been fighting the same uphill battle since recreational sales begin. Unfortunately, after hitting a wall with Gov. Sisolak, an amendment forced the industry to wait until 2020 to pursue public consumption. NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, however, took matters into their own hands!
First & Finest
The day celebrated the shop’s 2-year anniversary as well as the city’s own cannabis consumption lounge. With booths repping every known brand in town and world-famous boxer, Mike Tyson, making an appearance, the grand opening drew a crowd almost too large to fit in the space. Tyson celebrated his cultivation, Tyson Farms, and its sale at NuWu. Even with the star-quality though, The Vegas Tasting Room seemed to be everyone’s biggest priority.
NuWu’s Vegas Tasting Room provides a space for cannabis consumers to safely consume in the presence of one another. For cannabis-lovers in Las Vegas, the fear of a High-Roller sized ticket has kept them in the shadows. The Vegas Tasting Room, brought to us by NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, is the safe-haven stoners have been waiting for! NuWu is owned and regulated by the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and, as a result, they are on tribe’s sovereign land. This means, that despite the current laws, their lounge is completely safe and legal!
“We created the Las Vegas Paiute Cannabis Authority that regulates the ability to do this.” Benny Tso, a tribe council member, told news stations.
The Vegas Tasting Room
Around 400-square-feet of the 16,000-square-foot dispensary has been crafted into the very first lounge. With the area opening its doors and grinders to consumers, Las Vegas is on its way to becoming a true stoner’s paradise.
With sitting areas, snacks for purchase, in addition to bongs and pieces you can access while inside, the consumption lounge ensures consumers will want for little. Equally, Jerome Baker Designs was there to ensure everyone used the lounge to its full potential. Over the course of the day, they consumed over half a pound of cannabis and two ounces of concentrate alone!
Though the grand opening hosted some grand Stoner-Ingenuity with consumption, the Tasting Room will have its own rules, like the dispensary. All of the options inside of the lounge are single dosed or weighted out for a single serving. Consumers can smoke bowls, take a dab, buy joints, and enjoy edibles as long as it takes place inside of the Tasting Room.
What you need to know before you go:
- Located Inside NuWu Cannabis Marketplace in Downtown Las Vegas
Opens daily at 12 PM - The Vegas Tasting Room is the only legal cannabis consumption lounge in Las Vegas
- Products can be purchased from the dispensary to consume inside of the Tasting Room
- Products purchased outside of the Tasting Room can be wrapped back up for you to take home
- Guests can sample select products inside of the Tasting Room before purchasing in the dispensary
- The Tasting Room will designate time limits for guest inside
- They offer various cannabis package deals inside the lounge (for larger groups of consumers) with extended time limits
This, like most things in Las Vegas cannabis, is all about the experience. Guests are encouraged to ask question and sample products at the dab and bud bars. This way, they help to educate the masses while we light one up!
The Tasting Room is everything that the industry hoped it would be! Current legislation may keep more consumption lounges from opening until 2021, but NuWu’s prime location just under 2 miles from the Fremont Street Experience, gladly welcomes locals and tourists alike to come in and partake!
Check out NuWu’s menu before heading down to the Tasting Room and always check out Las Vegas Cannabis Reviews for everything cannabis in Las Vegas!
