Posted on 08/04/2017 3:25:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
American Green Inc. announced Thursday it is buying all 80 acres of Nipton, which includes its Old West-style hotel, a handful of houses, an RV park and a coffee shop. It says it plans to transform the old Gold Rush town into what it calls "an energy-independent, cannabis-friendly hospitality destination."
The town's current owner, Roxanne Lang, said the sale is still in escrow, but confirmed American Green is the buyer. She declined to reveal the price before the sale closes, but noted she and her late husband, Gerald Freeman, listed the property at $5 million when they put it up for sale last year.
Asked what her husband would think of the buyers' plans to turn Nipton into the pot paradise of the California desert, she laughed heartily.
"I think he would find a lot of humor in that," she finally said, adding that as a Libertarian Freeman had no problem with people using marijuana, and as a proponent of green power he'd be all in favor of energy independence. Over the years he'd installed a solar farm himself that provides much of the tiny town's electricity.
American Green says it plans to expand that farm and also bottle and sell cannabis-infused water from Nipton's plentiful aquifer. The buyers are also reaching out to edibles manufacturers and other pot-industry businesses, hoping they'll be interested in relocating to Nipton and bringing jobs with them.
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I’m thinking about opening a Cheetos® and snack store there.
Something tells me that it already is.
So, if it’s in calibfornia, does that mean they can only ship to destinations in calibfornia? Just wondering since it is still illegal federally but not locally, so crossing state lines is a violation?
Hmm, makes it interesting. WA,OR and CA are marijuana zones so going from one legal state to another is illegal?
Town is going to Pot....
Cool.
We saw what happens when Nipton, CA becomes a decadent mecca of barbarian sin. Caeser’s Legions burn it to the ground. Ave!
Never heard of Nipton, so I looked it up. It’s FAR Eastern San Bernardino County. On the Nevada border.
The town is in the Mojave Desert not to far off I15 and the Nevada state line. I was wondering about the water but I see they have a lot of underground water. Also the UPRR runs through there. Oh, and Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight Nevada is not very far from there.
Nevada is now MJ friendly too but I believe it’s illegal to bring it across state lines. Any one?
How is Big Pot better than Big Tocacco?
So I was just wondering if bordering states that allowed MJ could transfer across state lines. I read that Nebraska/Kansas HWP would wait for people to enter the state from CO and pull them over to see if they have MJ ... not sure what probably cause they’d use to stop folks; car full of kids with a nice mom and dad up front?
Yikes. Don’t want to see any nips from out there.
Lol, my first thought at seeing Nipton, CA was this-— specifically killing Vulpes, which can be a tough fight at the low level you are when you get to Nipton.
Because it's out in the desert in the middle of nowhere, the pond attracts a lot of avian neotropical migrants in spring and fall. I've gotten some real rarities there on occasion.
Maybe the new potheads will be too stoned to ruin the place... We'll see.
That’s a great business idea! Add nachos, pizza. Doesn’t have to be great food.
Interesting...I guess it won’t be family friendly...
It gets you high, and smells better to some people? In other forms, it does have medicinal uses. If you smoke it, the carcinogens are as bad as tobacco.
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