We've Done the BBQ. We've Done the Infused Dinners. Now We're Building the Destination.
LVCIL is building a Las Vegas cannabis hospitality ecosystem from operating experience - not from an untested idea. The history includes three years operating a Portland BBQ food truck, 15 cannabis-infused BBQ dinners at two Portland consumption lounges, and later operating a BBQ restaurant in Las Vegas. Our immediate priorities are Barely Legal in Las Vegas and the Budsy's BBQ Food Truck relaunch, while we build toward The Green Room and the next generation of the Chef Budsy experience.
Build the Audience. Bring the BBQ Back to Market.
The Green Room is the destination we're building toward - not the business we're waiting on to get started.
Barely Legal in Las Vegas
The first objective is approximately $5,000 in founding sponsorships to activate the pilot and first episode. The show is designed to document the build, explore Nevada cannabis hospitality, create value for early sponsors and build an audience around the businesses and destination being developed.
Budsy's BBQ Food Truck
Bring Budsy's BBQ back to market in Las Vegas as a conventional, non-cannabis food business. This relaunch draws on three years of prior Portland food-truck operations and subsequent restaurant experience in Las Vegas. It creates an operating revenue business while rebuilding the food platform behind the larger vision.
This Isn't a Concept on a Whiteboard.
The next phase builds on prior food-service operations, cannabis dining events and product development.
Portland Food Truck
Uncle Budsy's BBQ operated as a Portland food truck for approximately three years before the move to Las Vegas.
Infused BBQ Dinners
Cannabis-infused BBQ dinner events produced at two Portland consumption lounges over approximately three years.
Guests Per Dinner
Historical attendance range for the infused dinner events, with historical ticket prices of approximately $75-$125 per person.
Restaurant Operations
After relocating, the BBQ business was operated as a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas implementation - not whether the underlying dinner experience can exist.
The work ahead is adapting prior operating experience to Nevada's current regulatory environment, relaunching the food business, developing partnerships and product economics, building an audience, and determining how the Chef Budsy experience can scale as part of a larger Las Vegas cannabis hospitality destination.
We're Not Building Another Smoking Lounge.
Las Vegas already understands beverage-centered hospitality. Bars, restaurants, casinos, clubs, shows and resorts are built around people gathering with a drink in their hands. The Green Room concept applies that familiar social behavior to cannabis - with food, infused beverages, edibles, entertainment and shared experiences at the center.
Cannabis consumption as the destination
- Experience centered heavily on inhaled cannabis
- Smoke-management and filtration become major facility considerations
- Hospitality can become secondary to the act of consumption
Hospitality as the destination
- Fast-acting infused beverages and edibles are planned as the primary cannabis experience
- Chef Budsy dining, conventional food and entertainment create reasons to visit beyond consumption
- Inhaled cannabis is envisioned as a smaller component, subject to final facility design and regulatory approval
Las Vegas Has a Drinking Culture. Cannabis Hospitality Needs a Drink.
Dr. Budsy's Medicated Hooch™ is being developed as a non-alcoholic cannabis-infused beverage intended to fit naturally into the social rhythm of Las Vegas hospitality - something a guest can order, hold, sip and enjoy as part of a dining and entertainment experience without making smoking the center of the evening.
Targeted Fast Onset
The formulation concept is designed around fast-acting cannabis delivery technology targeting an onset measured in minutes rather than the much longer delay associated with traditional edibles.
A Familiar Social Format
A beverage fits an established hospitality behavior: order a drink, socialize, dine and enjoy entertainment in a controlled adult environment.
Cannabis Hospitality
The concept is a cannabis-infused, non-alcoholic beverage - not an alcoholic cannabis cocktail - intended for compliant production and service within applicable regulations.
Product is in development. Onset, absorption and other performance characteristics are formulation-dependent and require appropriate testing, manufacturing validation, regulatory compliance and substantiation before being presented as final consumer claims.
Food came first. Cannabis dining was tested in the real world. Now the pieces can be assembled into a differentiated Las Vegas hospitality business.
Approximately three years of conventional BBQ food-truck operations.
15 dinner events at two consumption lounges, generally serving 70-120 guests at historical ticket prices of approximately $75-$125.
Prior development included conventional BBQ sauces and rubs as well as Dr. Budsy's cannabis-infused BBQ sauce concepts.
The BBQ operation continued as a brick-and-mortar Las Vegas restaurant after the move from Portland.
Build audience, sponsorship relationships and operating revenue before the larger cannabis hospitality buildout.
Bring food, beverages, regulated cannabis, entertainment and a proven infused-dinner heritage together in a differentiated Las Vegas destination.
Food. Cannabis. Hospitality. Media.
Budsy's BBQ
A return to an operating business with prior food-truck and restaurant experience behind it, beginning with a Las Vegas food-truck relaunch.
Barely Legal in Las Vegas
An MJ Media Productions property designed to document the build, create sponsor opportunities, develop audience and generate exposure for the businesses being built.
Dr. Budsy's™
Product development builds on earlier BBQ sauce, rub and cannabis-infused product work, including Medicated Hooch™ and Medicated BBQ Sauce™, with future regulated products intended for compliant licensed manufacturing channels.
Chef Budsy™
A Las Vegas evolution of a cannabis-infused BBQ dinner format previously produced 15 times in Portland, ultimately intended as a signature Green Room attraction.
The Green Room
A planned Las Vegas cannabis hospitality destination developed by LVCIL - designed around regulated cannabis consumption, food, infused beverages, entertainment, Dr. Budsy's products and the Chef Budsy dining experience.
The goal isn't to build a better place to smoke weed. It's to build a better cannabis hospitality experience.
The current concept envisions the large majority of the guest experience around non-inhaled formats - particularly fast-acting infused beverages, edibles, food and entertainment - with inhaled consumption as a smaller component. Final percentages, facility configuration and consumption areas will depend on product development, economics, Nevada law, local requirements and regulatory approval.
Advance the prospective lounge.
LVCIL was selected by the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board as a prospective independent cannabis consumption lounge license holder in the City of Las Vegas. Nevada's prospective licensing process includes evidence that an applicant controls $200,000 in liquid assets as part of proceeding through suitability.
Prospective status is not a final operational license and does not guarantee conditional or final licensure. LVCIL's immediate operating priorities remain Barely Legal in Las Vegas and the Budsy's BBQ Food Truck relaunch.
Help us build the next chapter.
We are currently interested in founding sponsors for Barely Legal in Las Vegas, strategic relationships around the Budsy's BBQ relaunch, product-development and manufacturing relationships, and partners who can help advance the broader LVCIL cannabis hospitality project.