They are saying what occurs in Vegas stays in Vegas. Nonetheless, Maxine Fensom, a one-time Playboy Australia “Playmate of the Month” and serial entrepreneur, desires her purchasers to seek out endlessly love below the hashish vegetation of Sin Metropolis. “Hashish is such a gorgeous and magical herb that may actually assist individuals,” Fensom says. “Via Las Vegas Cannabis Weddings, I’ve seen first-hand the way it has helped so many {couples} get by way of some actually tough and traumatic occasions.”
With Las Vegas Hashish Weddings, canna-couples “tie the knot with pot” in a develop home or on the world’s largest dispensary, Planet 13, simply steps from the Las Vegas Strip. Lovers can select between a number of totally different marriage ceremony packages, together with the cannabis-themed marriage ceremony venue and add-ons resembling a inexperienced marriage ceremony cake, marijuana leaf bouquet, munchies, and even a helicopter trip. (So devour hashish responsibly since you do not need to get paranoid up within the air).
Earlier than coming into the hashish enterprise, Fensom labored within the grownup trade. In 2000, she established the Australian Grownup Business Awards. She later launched the nationwide Miss Erotica and Miss Dream Woman pageants to empower and promote recognition amongst feminine performers and equality for ladies inside the grownup trade. With the assistance of her shut pal and enterprise accomplice, the notorious Larry Flynt, the king of the Hustler model empire, Fensom opened the long-lasting Brunswick-based Maxine’s Gents’s Membership in 2007. A decade later, in 2017, she relocated to Las Vegas.
“My background within the grownup leisure trade gave me thicker pores and skin. I needed to develop a thick pores and skin to make it in that cut-throat trade, particularly as a lady! However, from that have, I discovered the right way to command respect and never permit individuals to bully me,” Fensom says. “The hashish trade is much like the grownup trade in that each are like boys’ golf equipment. Ladies aren’t taken significantly in both trade, and I needed to struggle and claw my solution to make any enterprise strikes inside the trade.”
Combat and claw, she did, and name Fensom the mistress of sin as a result of along with the pleasure derived from love and intercourse, and naturally, hashish, Fensom can be a foodie. “I knew I had a knack for hospitality and distinctive experiences, so I launched Sin Metropolis Foodie Excursions first. Sadly, the Covid-19 pandemic got here shortly after my launch. The well being and security restrictions related to the pandemic negatively impacted the restaurant trade and, in consequence, my Sin Metropolis Foodie Tour. I needed to pivot and discover a new enterprise if I used to be going to outlive as a businesswoman through the lockdown, and Las Vegas was the right place for that!” Fensom says. Enter Las Vegas Cannabis Tours, based within the fall of 2020 amid the darkest days of the pandemic. Whereas this was a demanding time for many entrepreneurs, she understands the facility of the pivot and the right way to discover the silver, or in her case, inexperienced, lining.
“I used to be already conversant in the canna-tourism trade, however one thing sparked the concept for Las Vegas Hashish Excursions. Steve Sisolak, Nevada’s governor, deemed the hashish trade as important. So, I assumed, why not launch a Sin Metropolis-style hashish tour? I used to be already a giant proponent of hashish, and I am well-known for my distinctive experiences, so it made sense.”
Certainly one of few women-operated hashish excursions in Las Vegas, it affords visits to famed dispensaries, a develop home, a hashish museum, glass dabber blowing, and extra. Nevada legalized marijuana in 2017, and the demand for leisure hashish has peaked from locals and vacationers ever since. It additionally gave Fensom an opportunity to hearken to suggestions from her purchasers.
Weddings turn out to be part of the tour as a result of easy demand. So in early 2022, she launched Las Vegas Hashish Weddings. “As I ran Las Vegas Hashish Excursions, a few tour company requested me the place they might get married with a hashish theme. So I began considering and realized there wasn’t wherever right here in Las Vegas that {couples} might get married with a hashish theme,” Fensom says. Understanding that that is unacceptable for Sin Metropolis, she turned an ordained minister and created Las Vegas Hashish Weddings as an extension of her present Las Vegas Hashish Excursions enterprise.
Weddings are all the time demanding, particularly in an period of masks and isolation. Nonetheless, individuals additionally crave intimacy and romance greater than earlier than, creating demand. By marrying weddings and hashish (if a marriage has a bar, why not a budtender too for individuals who desire the plant over alcohol?) Fensom discovered a romantic avenue to proceed her mission of destigmatizing pleasure. “I grew up within the shock jock period, and I’ve all the time beloved all issues taboo,” Fensom says. “I am proud to say that I take advantage of my excursions as a solution to demystify the legalized hashish trade for my company, hopefully serving to to destigmatize the usage of hashish one visitor at a time. As such, I have been dubbed the ‘First Girl of Hashish’ by all of my pals and colleagues,” she ceremoniously states.