Phil Ivey is not smoking one thing, but their future customers may be: Ivey received one of 26 license that is preliminary for the medical cannabis dispensary from the Las Vegas City Council earlier this week, potentially making the poker superstar one of the first operators into the town to supply pot to consumers.

You can find even more steps necessary before Ivey gets last approval to open such a company, but his approval does suggest that the town found him qualified to go on in the licensing procedure.

This week to plead their cases for medical marijuana licenses about 50 potential operators went before the City Council. Those that got approval that is preliminary the town will now have to be approved by the state health department.

The City Council will sooner or later hold a suitability that is final for all approved by the state before awarding a restricted number of licenses which have been set aside for Las Vegas.

This means that Ivey still has a way that is long go before obtaining a final go-ahead to dispense medical cannabis in Sin City. But if he will make his way through the various licensing stages, Ivey might end up slinging weed in the same way prolifically as he makes pot-sized bets at the poker table.

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