Cannabis Freedom Index

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Correct Colorado's hospitality-and-sales licence and Nevada's 2021 consumption-lounge law in the United States clubs section. Fixes #74 and #75.

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Non-profit growing clubs of the Spanish kind are not part of American law; what some states license instead are places to consume, usually run for profit. Colorado allowslicenses two kinds of place, each depending on a local ordinance or resolution. A marijuana hospitality business may allow consumption clubs but no, and section 44-10-609 forbids sale or exchange for payment on those premises. A retail marijuana hospitality and sales licence under section 44-10-610 allows marijuana to be sold and consumed on site, with rules that vary by countythe same premises. Oregon permits cannabis social clubs and some operate. Nevada has let businesses apply for social's Cannabis Compliance Board licenses consumption lounges under Assembly Bill 341 of 2021. A retail lounge must be attached or immediately next to an adult-club licences since ause shop. An independent lounge is not, and it sells single-use or ready-to-consume cannabis for use in the lounge. A city or county may limit or bar them. A 2017 lawbill to license lounges missed its deadline. A counsel opinion that September said a business could let patrons use marijuana if it was not sold, and that opinion was not a licensing statute. Massachusetts approved three types of social-consumption licence in December 2025. The District of Columbia went the other way and banned consumption clubs in 2016. In most states there is no provision at all.

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crs609, crs610, cotax, nvfaq, nvreg, lvsun, wikicsc

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Colorado Revised Statutes § 44-10-609, marijuana hospitality business licence (2024 code, via colorado.public.law) Colorado Revised Statutes § 44-10-610, retail marijuana hospitality and sales business licence (2024 code, via colorado.public.law) Colorado Department of Revenue — Marijuana sales tax, hospitality and sales establishments Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board — consumption lounge FAQ Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board — approval of cannabis consumption lounge regulations (28 June 2022) Las Vegas Sun — Marijuana lounges, weed consumption at special events legal, opinion says (11 September 2017) 15 unchanged

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docs/research/profile-legal-us-clubs-2026-10-24.md +19 −0
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+# United States clubs, 24 October 2026
+
+Issues #74 and #75. Texts opened before the national clubs paragraph was rewritten. The six national scores are unchanged. Colorado and Nevada state files do not repeat the two errors, so they were left as they were. No earlier history entry said Nevada licensed lounges in 2017.
+
+## Read
+
+- Colorado Revised Statutes § 44-10-609: a marijuana hospitality business may allow consumption under a local ordinance, and may not sell or exchange marijuana for payment on the premises. https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_44-10-609
+- Colorado Revised Statutes § 44-10-610: a retail marijuana hospitality and sales licence authorises a premises where marijuana may be sold and consumed, subject to a local ordinance. https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_44-10-610
+- Colorado Department of Revenue, marijuana sales tax page: hospitality and sales establishments sell retail marijuana to consumers and allow consumption on the premises. https://tax.colorado.gov/marijuana-sales-tax
+- Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, licence list: the hospitality licence is consumption under § 44-10-609, and the hospitality and sales licence is sale and consumption under § 44-10-610. https://med.colorado.gov/licensee-information-and-lookup-tool/licensed-facilities
+- Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board FAQ: Assembly Bill 341 of 2021 authorises the board to license consumption lounges. A retail lounge is attached or immediately adjacent to an adult-use shop. An independent lounge is not. A lounge sells single-use or ready-to-consume cannabis for consumption there. A local government may limit or bar them. https://ccb.nv.gov/faq/
+- Board press release of 28 June 2022: the board approved the lounge regulations that day and expected the first application round in the autumn. https://ccb.nv.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CCB-Approves-Cannabis-Consumption-Lounge-Regulations-6-28-22for-release.pdf
+- Las Vegas Sun, 11 September 2017: Senator Segerblom's bill to license lounges missed a legislative deadline. The Legislative Counsel's opinion said a business could let patrons use marijuana if it was not sold. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/sep/11/marijuana-lounges-weed-consumption-at-special-even/
+
+## Not opened
+
+- The enrolled text of Assembly Bill 341 and the 2024 Colorado title 44 PDF. The section text used is the public.law reproduction of the 2024 code.
+- The board's 2026 list of active licensees. The profile does not say how many lounges are open.
+- Oregon, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia sentences are unchanged and still rest on the Wikipedia clubs article.

scripts/history-scope.test.cjs +14 −0
@@ -706,2 +706,16 @@ test("Latvia's drug-driving penalties and the UAE hemp law follow the texts that
   assert.equal(hemp.before, undefined);
 });
+
+test("Colorado hospitality sales and Nevada's 2021 lounge law replace the old clubs sentences", () => {
+  const us = y.load(fs.readFileSync("countries/us/index.yaml", "utf8"));
+  const lounges = byId["nevada-consumption-lounge-regulations-2022"];
+  assert.match(us.context.clubs.text, /44-10-610/);
+  assert.match(us.context.clubs.text, /Assembly Bill 341 of 2021/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(us.context.clubs.text, /no sales on site/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(us.context.clubs.text, /since a 2017 law/);
+  assert.equal(us.context.clubs.status, "regulated");
+  assert.equal(us.scores.access, 5);
+  assert.equal(lounges.date, "2022-06-28");
+  assert.equal(lounges.subunit, "nv");
+  assert.equal(lounges.before, undefined);
+});

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