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Monday marks the final day the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) will be accepting applications to cultivate or sell medical marijuana in The Natural State.
Mindful that it’s crunch time in the South, a spokesman for the DFA noted, “everyone is bracing themselves for Monday knowing it’s going to be an extremely busy day,” according to the Associated Press.
To be considered for the Arkansas program, “a complete response to the state application must be hand-delivered to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission before 4:30 PM on September 18, 2017,” according to program’s request for application.
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission will issue five licenses to cultivate medicinal cannabis and 32 licenses to operate state-sanctioned dispensaries throughout eight regions of the state.
No small task to complete, the typical application is approximately 1,000 pages.
Once completed, it will be up to the five-member medical marijuana commission to judge the applicants based on their individual merit. After today’s deadline has passed, Arkansas’s MMJ
