Customers just need to show a valid ID to prove they’re over 21. Whether on the Strip, in Henderson or throughout the suburbs, a dispensary is now a short drive away. Dispensaries finally opened in 2015, and after voters gave recreational marijuana the thumbs up in 2016 it was just a matter of how to handle the floodgates. So for more than a decade, the most feasible law-abiding way to light up was by growing your own plants. Nevada voters approved marijuana for legal medical use way back in 2000, but dispensaries to actually sell the stuff weren’t approved by the state legislature until 2013. Buying legal weed in Las Vegas has suddenly become ridiculously easy after being frustratingly difficult for years-often in ways that are hard to explain.