North Las Vegas leaders on Wednesday introduced a draft medical marijuana measure set for City Council approval June 18, scheduling a final vote on city pot rules just two months after joining the green rush and only two weeks after their colleagues in Las Vegas.

North Las Vegas City Hall (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

North Las Vegas didn’t get off to the quickest start in the race to adopt a medical marijuana ordinance, but it’s catching up quick.

City leaders on Wednesday introduced a draft medical marijuana measure set for City Council approval June 18, scheduling a final vote on city pot rules two months after joining the green rush and two weeks after their colleagues in Las Vegas.

Officials north of Carey Avenue — working weeks behind their counterparts in Clark County and Las Vegas — borrowed from pot planning and licensing efforts in both jurisdictions to draft the ordinance, essentially copy-and-pasting bans on dispensary drive-thru windows and 24-hour pot shops.

Perhaps more important are the parts they left out, including oft-maligned proposals aimed at creating a pot permit application window and limiting access to medical marijuana edibles, moves that have earned Las Vegas planners an earful at a series of town hall meetings.

The result, said Community Development and Compliance Director Greg Blackburn, is a relatively nimble ordinance that will see North Las Vegas-bound pot entrepreneurs pay less to open their doors more quickly.

“We’re basically going full speed ahead on all nondispensary facilities,” Blackburn said Tuesday. “As soon as an applicant gets a state certificate, we can get them on the next (City Council) agenda and have them approved within three weeks of a state permit.”