“Smoking pot” is Gaining Acceptance around the country, notes Grumpy Editor, who recalls when actor Robert Mitchum --- caught smoking a marijuana cigarette in 1948 --- landed in jail with a 60-day sentence.
“Yes, boys, I was smoking the marijuana cigarette when you came in,” he told police.
Now, Nevada is the latest state to allow cannabis consumption lounges as the drug gains mainstream acceptance.
As regulators grapple with how to oversee the businesses, dispensaries are already making plans to open the first state-sanctioned lounges by mid-2022.
A planned Planet 13’s cannabis superstore on the Las Vegas Strip will span 30,000 square feet of retail space alongside a cafe, a bar and a marijuana processing center.
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WALL STREET GOES INTO PANIC. Wall Street investors sometimes get carried away. A good example: with announcement Friday of a new coronavirus variant detected in far-off South Africa, the Dow-Jones average made its biggest drop of the year --- 905 points. An editorial in The Wall Street Journal notes “The panic may be driven more by the fear of new government lockdowns and social distancing than by the variant itself.”
EARLY U.S. COIN SELLS AT AUCTION. One of the first coins minted in colonial New England --- a one shilling silver coin, made in Boston in 1652, sells at auction for more than $350,000.
SPEEDY BIRD HITCHES RIDE. A roadrunner accidentally travels four days from Las Vegas to Westbrook, Maine, inside a moving van. When found, a bird rehabilitation facility gets it back in shape and arranges for the bird (in a cage) to return to Las Vegas.
DOG GRABS 'BEST' TWO YEARS IN ROW. At the annual National Dog Show in Philadelphia, history is made when a Scottish Deerhound named Claire, whIch won last year, is named “best in show.”
U.S. DESTROYERS GET CHAPLAINS. The Navy is assigning chaplains to every destroyer in a bid to build and sustain resiliency among sailors. The U.S. 6th Fleet says placing a chaplain with a ship fosters deeper connections with the crew and command.
DEER JOINS CLASSROOM SESSION. Wildlife officials in Springfield, Tennessee, respond to an elementary school where a deer forces its way into a classroom through an emergency exit. It was led to a door and trotted back into the wild.
WEST VIRGINIA CITY HAS MOST SMOKERS.
