Election Day is finally over. The votes have been (mostly) counted, and the results are (mostly) in. Cannabis legalization was a hot topic during the midterm election. Five states had adult-use legalization measures on the ballot, along with more than …
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Arkansas Pauses Marijuana Dispensary Applications’ Review
By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas regulators have stopped reviewing applications from businesses that want to sell medical marijuana, weeks after a judge struck down the state’s licensing process for growing the drug. A spokesman for the …
Read More »Analysis: Ruling Upends Arkansas Medical Marijuana Program Launch
By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas judge who put the brakes on the state’s medical marijuana program didn’t do so because of an objection to legalizing pot’s use for certain patients. In fact, he was downright …
Read More »A Dying Southern Town Needed a Miracle. Marijuana Came Calling.
COTTON PLANT, Ark. — Mayor Willard C. Ryland looked everywhere for salvation for his dying town. He tried luring a vegetable packing company. An Asian carp processor. A Dollar General store. But he struck out again and again. Then came …
Read More »Arkansas Appeals Judge’s Order Halting Marijuana Grow Licenses
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ attorney general said Friday she’s appealing a judge’s decision to prevent the state from issuing its first licenses to grow medical marijuana after ruling the process for permitting the facilities was unconstitutional. Attorney General …
Read More »Arkansas Circuit Judge Rules State’s Cultivation License Process Unconstitutional
By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge has struck down the state’s decision to issue its first licenses to grow medical marijuana, ruling that the process for awarding the permits and the rankings of applicants were …
Read More »Arkansas Judge Considers Effort to Halt Marijuana Licenses
By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge said Friday he’ll rule by the middle of next week on whether to allow the state to issue its first licenses for companies to grow medical marijuana after hearing …
Read More »Arkansas Judge Blocks Regulators from Granting Medical Marijuana Cultivation Licenses – News
Dailyjournal.net/2018/03/14/ar-medical-marijuana-arkansas-the-latest/”>put on hold by a local judge, delaying the rollout of the state’s new MMJ program for the foreseeable future. State regulators were planning to formally award the first five cannabis cultivation licenses, but two applicants who failed to make …
Read More »Lawsuits Piling up against Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission
The first lawsuit against Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission (MMC) was filed on Tuesday by Naturalis Health Continue reading at theweedblog.com
Read More »Arkansas Judge Blocks State From Licensing Cannabis Cultivators
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge has temporarily blocked the state from issuing licenses to five companies to grow medical marijuana in response to complaints about the state’s process for reviewing applications for the facilities. Pulaski County Circuit …
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