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No Pipe Dream: Cannabis Company Buys California Town
Nipton, a Mojave Desert town 60 miles south of Las Vegas, isn’t convenient to a whole lot.
It sports a hotel, a trading post, a historical plaque and a whole lot of passing trains.
And as of this week, Nipton has something else: a cannabis company for an owner, with designs on turning the hamlet into a pot-centric tourist destination.
“{W}e are thrilled to begin work on this first-of-its-kind eco-tourism experience for conscious cannabis consumers,” David Gwyther, chairman and president of American Green, said in a statement announcing the purchase.
The 80-acre town in San Bernardino County was put up for sale last year for $5 million.
Read more: https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/04/no-pipe-dream-cannabis-company-buys-california-town/
