RENO, Nev. — Nevada regulators reaffirmed Friday that they intend to issue licenses necessary for retailers to begin selling pot for recreational use on July 1, despite a court order that threatens to scuttle the plan. The licensees could include as many as 25 medical dispensaries in the Las Vegas area and four others in Reno that already have medical retail licenses and local business licenses, “as long as the inventory they sell as retail meets the packaging and labeling requirements in the emergency regulation we will have adopted Monday,” state Department of Taxation spokeswoman Stephanie Klapstein said. The fate of the recreational program has been in limbo since a Carson City judge ruled Tuesday that the ballot measure approved by voters requires that alcohol wholesalers have exclusive rights to pot distribution licenses for 18 months. District Judge James Wilson issued a temporary injunction barring the state from issuing pot distribution licenses to anyone else, including existing medical marijuana dispensaries. However, Klapstein said Friday the “distributor issue will not hold up licensing of other marijuana establishments.” “The injunction has no effect on the other license types,” she said.

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