FAQ

CCB members must have expertise in one of the following areas:

• Finance and Accounting
• Law Enforcement
• Regulatory and Legal Compliance
• Cannabis Industry
• Public Health, Medicine, Psychology

The CAC Chair may appoint subcommittees focusing on specific topics such as public health, industry, prevention of black-market activities, local government, laboratories, and testing. Subcommittee meetings are required to be open to the public.

Packaging must be pre-approved by Board staff. Only licensed establishments or their designees may request approval for packaging. For additional guidance, email [email protected].

Labeling: Must be present on or included with all items from cultivation, production, or with the consumer after purchasing cannabis or cannabis products. Compliance labels must be complaint with NCCR 12.030-12.045. For example, if the required information is already included on the packaging that information can be withheld from the compliance label.

Advertising: Pre-approval of advertising is no longer required; however, board staff may review advertising upon request of a licensed establishment. Civil penalties may be issued for advertising that does not comply with NRS 678A-D and/or NCCR Regulation 6 and 12.

Ensure that all packaging by the cannabis establishment contains warnings including: “Keep out of reach of children,” and "THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CANNABIS," Additionally, all advertising must contain warnings and cannabis establishment information detailed in NCCR 12.070.3.”

Promoting over consumption of cannabis or cannabis products.

Depicting consumption of cannabis or cannabis products and/or a child or other person who is less than 21 years of age consuming cannabis or cannabis products.

Objects suggesting the presence of a child, including, without limitation, toys, characters or cartoons, mascot, action figure, balloon or contain any other depiction which is designed in any manner to be appealing to or encourage consumption of cannabis or cannabis products by a person who is less than 21 years of age.

Having the product modeled after a brand of products primarily consumed by or marketed towards children.

Advertising in any publication, radio, television or any other medium if 30 percent or more of the audience is reasonably expected to be less than 21 years of age.

Sponsorship of youth sports and entertainment events, including advertising on team uniforms.

Placing an advertisement within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, playground, public park, or library. An advertisement may be maintained if it was placed before the school, playground, public park, or library was located within 1,000 feet of the advertisement.

Placing an advertisement on or inside of a public transportation motor vehicle or any shelter for public transportation. This does not include taxis.

Placing an advertisement at a sports or entertainment event to which persons who are less than 21 years of age are allowed entry.

Placing an advertisement where prohibited by ordinance of the locality.

Advertising or offering any cannabis or cannabis product as "free" or "donated" without a purchase.

*Cartoon, defined: Anime, a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject or person of popular interest.

Applications must be submitted ONLINE through the Accela Cannabis Customer Portal at: https://aca-prod.accela.com/NVCCB/.

NOTE: The CCB no longer accepts mail-in applications, all information is required to be electronically attested to. Contact the CCB if you have questions or concerns regarding this process.

After you have created an account and logged in, follow the step-by-step instructions.

Be sure to have a copy of your valid government issued identification and passport quality photo available to upload as these are required to submit your agent card application. Once you have completed the application you will get a confirmation screen with your registration number.  Make a copy of this page (screenshot it), print and mail it with your payment (Check, Cashier’s check, or Money Order), payable to the State of Nevada. Mail to: CCB, Agent Card Payments, P.O. Box 20099, Carson City, NV 89721. Cash payments will not be accepted. If you are unable to print your confirmation page, please place your record number on the memo line of your payment to ensure proper processing.

UPDATE: As of September 13, 2021, applicants may submit payments online through Accela using a bank routing number and checking or savings account number. The CCB does not accept any credit or debit cards of any type. A rejected payment will result in a $25.00 return fee for each returned payment. Ensure you review your bank account and routing information prior to submitting to avoid any additional fees.

You will receive a confirmation email that contains your fingerprint submission form hyperlink and instructions. Be sure to read through the instructions prior to obtaining fingerprints so that you can ensure you are completing this task accurately. The completed fingerprint submission form will need to be uploaded after the fingerprint technician has filled out the bottom portion of the form and the applicant has completed the demographic and personal information on the top of the form. Be advised any fingerprints obtained prior to an application submission will not be accepted and will result in a new set of fingerprints being requested at your own cost. Do not accept a fingerprint form from anyone or anywhere other than your confirmation email.

Once your payment is received and processed, and all required documents have been properly submitted and verified, you will receive an email to access your Temporary Agent Card, allowing you to begin working immediately and for up to 90 days while the CCB awaits your background results.

If your application is not complete, an email will be sent to you outlining corrections needed.

If you have problems while submitting your application, please email  [email protected]  with the problem you are experiencing, and a screenshot.

Do not email documents that include Personally Identifiable Information.

Please allow 7-10 days for mail-in payments to be received and processed.

• Fingerprints completed in Nevada must complete fingerprinting at a Livescan facility. Find your nearest one here.
• Fingerprints completed out of state, or in an area that does not have feasible access to a livescan facility, please send fingerprints (FD-258 Hard Card) directly to the Department of Public Safety. Mail to: NV Dept. of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division, Attn: Fingerprint Support Unit, 333 W. Nye Lane Suite 100, Carson City, NV 89706. Include your payment of $39.00 for DPS to process your fingerprints. Please note: DPS only accepts money order or cashiers check in the exact amount due.

If it is determined through the background process the applicant has been convicted of an excluded felony offense then the applicant is not eligible for an Agent Registration Card and temporary agent card issued will be revoked. An excluded felony offense is either a category A felony or 2 or more felonies within the last 10 years.

Additional Information Required: Additional information is required in the core application AND your application may also be pending the Fingerprint Form and/or pending payment.

Pending Fingerprint Form: Your core application is complete. CCB staff is just awaiting your Fingerprint Form AND may also be pending payment.

Pending Payment: CCB staff has received a complete core application and Fingerprint Form. Only payment is pending.

Payment Rejected: Payment remitted was rejected by the bank. This status will remain until a payment is remitted and cleared.

Fingerprint Return or Fingerprint Return W/Temp: Fingerprints were rejected by DPS for missing or incorrect information.

If your application is not complete, an email will be sent to you outlining corrections needed.

Video tutorials are available here.

1. Before a license can be linked, make sure to set up an individual user account.
2. See the written tutorials for step-by-step guidance on how to link a license.

1. 1. To add a delegate, go to “Account Management” on the upper right-hand side of the screen.
2. 2. Scroll down to the bottom. On the right-hand side, select “Add A Delegate.” Enter the e-mail address that the delegate used to register their account.

See the video tutorials for more in-depth steps on how to add a delegate.

Amendment submittals are only available to users that are either:

1. a. Linked to the license with the PIN or
2. b. A delegate granted permissions

1. 1. Log on to Accela Cannabis Customer Portal account at https://aca-prod.accela.com/NVCCB/.
2. Locate or navigate to the application previously submitted and add the requested additional information.
3. 2. Select "My Records".
4. 3. Click on the license record number that documents are being added to.
5. 4. Select "Record Info" and select "Amendments".

See the on-line written tutorials for more in-depth steps on how to add documents to an existing record.

I. Packaging & Advertising Submittal Request: Uploads of proposed packaging; compliance label, documents to corresponding Menu Requests if new product, audience & attendance demographics. Provide location details when advertising outside of an approved dispensary.

II. Change of Location Request:  Documentation from a public meeting in the local jurisdiction approving the location change, agenda meeting & minutes; professional survey demonstrating that the location meets the statutorily-required distance from schools and community facilities; written and signed attestation that the new address meets or exceeds the merits of the previous location; Nevada Business Registration form; proof that all owners, officers, and board members hold current Agent Cards.

III. Distributor Temporary Storage Notice: TBD.

IV. Equipment Request:  Uploads of equipment specification sheets, cleaning/maintenance SOPs, training and use SOPs (if applicable), intended use of equipment, and lay-out of facility indicating location of equipment.

V. Facility Modification Request:  Upload of floor plan with highlighted changes. Provide documentation for change and/or addition of equipment, and estimated time spent performing facility modification(s). Upload correspondence and/or documentation if facility modification has been requested from CCB in a previous instance. For cultivation facilities, include your current square footage and final square footage for cultivation after modification. Describe how cannabis and/or cannabis products will be protected from contamination due to construction (if applicable). Architecture blueprints (if applicable). Permits from local jurisdictions (if applicable).

VI. Menu Request: Include a copy of the menu (product name that the new item will be sold as), standard operating procedures for processes of production, ingredient list and allergens, and serving/dosage information. RSM approval (if applicable).

VII. Request for Extraction: All related laboratory Certificates of Analysis (COAs).

VIII. Request for Laboratory Retesting: All related laboratory testing results (COAs).

IX. Request to Dispense Edible Cannabis Products: No required attachments.

X. Request to Perform Research and Development: No required attachments.

XI. Request to Review Stamp or Mold: Images demonstrating the attempt to stamp or mold the product are required to be uploaded, and a description of how else product will be marked and/or labeled. Provide documentation on corresponding Menu Request. Proposed packaging images and proposed physical packaging

Note: Additional documents may be required to be submitted prior to approval.

Note: The board is not permitted to consider complaints regarding price and/or service or permitted to release information regarding the status of complaints.

Cannabis Sales Facility: A business that is licensed by the board and acquires, possesses, delivers, transfers, supplies, sells, or dispenses cannabis or related supplies to a consumer/patient or to another cannabis sales facility.

Cannabis Cultivation Facility: A business that is licensed by the board, and acquires, possesses, cultivates, delivers, transfers, transports, supplies, or sells cannabis and related supplies to a cannabis sales facility; cannabis production facilities; or other cannabis cultivation facilities.

Cannabis Production Facility: A business that is licensed by the board and acquires, possesses, manufactures, delivers, transfers, transports, supplies, or sells cannabis products to cannabis sales facilities.

Cannabis Distributor: A business that is licensed by the Board to transport cannabis and cannabis products from cannabis establishments to another cannabis establishment.

Cannabis Consumption Lounge: A business that is licensed by the Board to sell single-use cannabis and/or ready-to-consume cannabis products to a consumer/patient that are then consumed in the lounge.

Independent Testing Laboratory: A business that is licensed by the Board to test cannabis and all cannabis products. 

Nevada medical cannabis cultivation in a greenhouse is acceptable if the greenhouse:
• Is an “enclosed, and secured area.”
• Has adequate lighting in all areas.
• If dim lighting is required, the cultivator has a written policy explaining the reason.
• Has adequate ventilation and equipment to control air pressure, microorganisms, dust, humidity and temperature when appropriate for the manufacture, processing, packaging or holding of cannabis or cannabis products.
• Is maintained in a state of good repair.
• Has restricted access with access to agents only.
• Is such that the cannabis growing at the facility cannot be observed from outside the facility.
• Makes a significant effort to eliminate odors.

As outlined in NCCR 5.055, social equity applicants must meet the following criteria:
1. Have at least 51% ownership in the business;
2. Have resided in one of the following census tracts nationwide for no less than the previous five (5) years meeting the following two criteria:
a. A census tract with an Area Deprivation Index score of seven (7) state-only decile or higher; and
b. A census tract that has a minimum incarceration rate in the 90th percentile, or roughly 3.3% or higher, of everyone who grew up in the census tract was in jail or incarcerated at the time of the 2010 Decennial Census.
3. Convicted of a non-violent felony and/or misdemeanor cannabis offense; or their immediate family member (parent, sibling, or child) was convicted of a felony cannabis offense and who lived in or currently lives in a census tract, designated by the Board.

Please note that those convicted of an excluded felony offense as defined in NRS 678B.050 would not be eligible for a license.

Applicants must submit an application for a cannabis consumption lounge agent registration card.

Additional information and guidance on how to prepare before applying can be found on the Consumption Lounge page on the CCB website.

A one-time, non-refundable processing fee of $10,000 is required for an application for an independent cannabis consumption lounge. For a qualifying social equity applicant, a one-time, non-refundable processing fee of $2,500 is required for an independent cannabis consumption lounge application.

For the prospective license holder to receive a conditional license, the applicant must be found suitable by the Board only after Board Agents complete a suitability investigation.

Board staff publishes a list of licensed facilities on its web site. Dispensaries/Retail Stores are storefront, walk-in facilities, and are listed on the Board’s web site. Only licensed dispensaries may deliver and sell cannabis. Consumers are urged to purchase from state certified dispensaries/retail stores that maintain compliance with the law and to ensure they are consuming products that are tested.

Beware of Illegal Operations.

Licensed facilities must use the services of an independent testing laboratory to ensure that all cannabis, edible cannabis products and cannabis-infused products sold by the dispensaries are tested for content, quality and potency in accordance with standards established by the Board. You have the right to request copies of test results.

Labels on the packages will disclose laboratory findings. Dispensaries/Retail Stores must provide the Certificate of Analysis for a product to customers upon request.

1. 1. Labels on usable cannabis products (dried leaves and flowers) will disclose:

• The business or trade name and the cannabis establishment ID of the cultivation facility and the lot number.
• The date and quantity, including the net weight measured in ounces and grams or by volume, as appropriate.
• The name and address of the cannabis dispensary.
• The cannabinoid profile, potency levels and terpenoid profile as determined by the independent testing laboratory.

A warning that states: “THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CANNABIS”

The statement: “Keep out of Reach of Children.”

The date on which the cannabis was harvested.

Labels on edible cannabis or cannabis-infused products must disclose:

• The business or trade name and the medical cannabis establishment registration certificate number of the facility for the production of edible cannabis products or cannabis-infused products that manufactured and sold the product.
• The lot numbers of all cannabis used to create the product.
• The batch number of the product.
• The date and quantity dispensed, including the net weight in ounces and grams or by volume, as appropriate.
• The name and registry identification card number of the patient and, if applicable, the name of his or her designated caregiver.
• The name and address of the medical cannabis dispensary.
• The date on which the product was manufactured.
• If the product is perishable, a suggested use-by date.
• The total milligrams of active cannabinoids and terpenoids in the product, as provided
  by the independent testing laboratory that tested the product.
• A list of all ingredients and all major food allergens as identified in 21 U.S.C. §§ 343.
• A warning that states: “Caution: When eaten or swallowed, the intoxicating effects of this drug may be delayed by 2 or more hours.”
• If a cannabis extract was added to the product, a disclosure of the type of extraction process and any solvent, gas or other chemical used in the extraction process, or any other compound added to the extract.
• A warning that states:
  (a) That cannabis and cannabis products must be kept out of the reach of children;
  (b) That cannabis and cannabis products can cause severe illness in children;
  (c) That allowing children to ingest cannabis or cannabis products or storing cannabis or cannabis products in a location which is accessible to children may result in an investigation by an agency which provides child welfare services or criminal prosecution for child abuse or neglect;
  (d) “THE INTOXICATING EFFECTS OF CANNABIS MAY BE DELAYED BY 2 HOURS OR MORE AND USERS OF CANNABIS PRODUCTS SHOULD INITIALLY INGEST A SMALL AMOUNT OF THE PRODUCT CONTAINING NO MORE THAN 10 MILLIGRAMS OF THC, THEN WAIT AT LEAST 2 HOURS BEFORE INGESTING ANY ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF CANNABIS”;
  (e) “Cannabis or cannabis products may have intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. Smoking is hazardous to your health.”;
  (f) “Ingesting cannabis or cannabis products with alcohol or other drugs, including prescription medication, may result in unpredictable levels of impairment and a person should consult with a physician before doing so.”;
  (g) “There may be mental or physical health risks associated with consumption of cannabis or cannabis products, including but not limited to cardiovascular problems, psychosis, or exacerbation of anxiety and/or depression. People with health concerns should consult with a physician before ingesting cannabis.”;
  (h) “WARNING: Pregnant or breastfeeding people should not use cannabis or cannabis products. Using cannabis during pregnancy or while breastfeeding may be harmful to your baby’s development.”;
  (i) “Cannabis or cannabis products can impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of cannabis or cannabis products”;
  (j) “Ingestion of any amount of cannabis or cannabis products before driving may result in criminal prosecution for driving under the influence.”
  (k) “Overconsumption of cannabis or cannabis products may cause negative health effects such as nausea, vomiting, anxiety, agitation, paranoia, and psychosis. Individuals with symptoms of overconsumption should seek immediate medical attention.”

For questions call, the Cannabis Compliance Board Message line at 775-687-6299

2. The laboratory can send a portion of completed test sample to another laboratory for validation purposes. This transfer must be documented in Nevada’s seed-to-sale tracking system, and the laboratory providing the samples must do so willingly. This is more common for already-established laboratories who have developed collaborative relationships.

3. A cultivation facility or production facility may allow a laboratory to test specific products for validation purposes as part of approved research and development. The cultivator or producer must be willing to provide the product for this purpose, and the process would require prior written approval from the CCB. All products must be tracked in the seed-to-sale tracking system per the CCB’s prescribed R&D process.

The CCB highly encourages retail stores/dispensaries, cultivation facilities and production facilities to work with laboratories to obtain the products necessary for test method validation.

Cannabinoids

• (1) THC
• (2) Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid
• (3) CBD
• (4) Cannabidiolic acid
• (5) Cannabinol

Terpenoids

• (1) Alpha-bisabolol
• (2) Alpha-humulene
• (3) Alpha-pinene
• (4) Terpinolene
• (5) Beta-caryophyllene
• (6) Beta-myrcene
• (7) Beta-pinene
• (8) Caryophyllene oxide
• (9) Limonene
• (10) Linalool

Final licenses expire annually after the date of issuance. Licensees can submit the annual license renewal application and fees through Accela starting 60 days out from the expiration date of the license. License renewal fees are as follows:

1. Retail (Adult-Use) Cannabis Licensing Fees:

1. Medical Cannabis Licensing Fees:

A one-time facility-specific training is required for all employees that work in Metrc/handle cannabis, facility managers, managing owners, officers, and board members.

Annual advanced training is required for inventory managers, employees, facility managers, supervisors, directors, and managing owners who have access to the seed-to-sale tracking system.

Each user or attendee is required to register through Metrc Learn.

All attendees must have a Metrc Learn account and have completed the New Business Metrc Training.

Employees who do not have access to Metrc and do not come into direct contact with cannabis or cannabis product may request an exemption by emailing [email protected].