Citizen from Southern Utah Flock to Nevada for the Legal Sale of Marijuana

Despite the out-of-state locale, about half the cars at Deep Roots Harvest on Saturday morning carried Utah license plates.

Recreational marijuana sales became legal this weekend in Nevada, and for many southern Utahns, Mesquite’s Deep Roots Harvest dispensary, a 40-minute drive from St. George, now is the most convenient place to get it — even if possession remains illegal back home.

By 11 a.m., a long line snaked into the parking lot of the pot shop, located in a nondescript office building far from the city’s shopping and casinos. Employees set up a tent to shelter waiting customers from the triple-digit heat, as a security guard checked a steady stream of cars into the lot.

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