Weed friendly hotel in Las Vegas

Last week, Las Vegas-based real estate and development company Siegel Group announced it had closed the sale of Artisan Hotel Boutique to Pro Hospitality Group for $11.9 million.

Alex Rizk, the owner of Phoenix-based Pro Hospitality Group, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he is undertaking a $3 million renovation of the 64-room hotel on Sahara Boulevard off Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Strip. dollars plans. He said he will make Artisan a “cannabis-friendly” tourist destination in the city once state and local regulations are in place.

“This is a lifestyle boutique hotel,” said Rizk.

The Siegel Group acquired the Artisan Hotel in 2009 and “transformed the site into one of the most well-known and busiest boutique hotels in Las Vegas,” the company said in a statement on the sale.

“The hotel gained a loyal following among locals, tourists and boutique enthusiasts, who were drawn to the location’s eclectic design and hip, intimate vibe,” the company wrote. “The unique hotel contained a bar lounge with a popular after-hours scene, a restaurant, a wedding chapel and one of the few topless pools in the city.”

Last year approved cannabis consumption lounges

Last year, Nevada lawmakers passed legislation giving the state’s Cannabis Compliance Board the power to regulate lounges that allow on-site consumption of cannabis products. The board is currently drafting regulations and local governments will have the power to enact stricter measures. Officials from Clark County, home of Las Vegas, announced in January that they are following efforts to regulate cannabis consumption lounges at the state level.

According to the 2016 ballot measure that legalized recreational cannabis in Nevada, consumption of cannabis products was only permitted in private homes. The legalization of regulated cannabis consumption lounges should provide visitors with a place to enjoy the benefits of the state’s cannabis reform.

As a state senator in 2017, Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom led the first effort in the state legislature to legalize cannabis consumption lounges. Last year he called lounges a “game changer” for the state’s hospitality industry.

“Consumption lounges are so perfect for our tourism industry,” Segerblom told the Review-Journal. “The sooner we get out of there, the more we’ll be viewed as a marijuana-friendly city and state.”

New owner has cannabis-friendly hotel in Phoenix

Pro Hospitality Group already operates a cannabis-friendly hotel, the Clarendon Hotel and Spa, in its hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. The hotel’s website informs potential guests that the property offers “cannabis-friendly rooms and amenities” that allow for “vaping, dabbing, flowers, etc.” The Clarendon also has a cannabis consumption lounge that is open to both hotel guests and the general public.

“As we are currently a split-use hotel with cannabis and non-smoking rooms, we ask that you smoke in your cannabis-friendly room and not in the hotel’s public areas,” the website reads. “Vape and smoke-free products may be used in public outdoor areas, with the exception of the restaurant.”

The Clarendon also notes that it is “working on a cannabis shuttle service to take hotel guests from the hotel to a local pharmacy and back,” according to the website.

The property opened its first cannabis-friendly rooms in July, followed by the rest of the hotel’s West Wing with a total of 16 guest rooms welcoming the use of cannabis products. The Clarendon is also accepting reservations for a limited number of rooms on the cannabis-friendly booking site Bud and Breakfast.