Phil Ivey isn’t smoking something, but his future clients 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 among the first operators within the town to offer pot to consumers.

You can find even more steps necessary before Ivey gets final approval to open such a business, but his approval does mean that the city found him qualified to go on in the licensing process.

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

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

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

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