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Dispensary Cultivation Begins as Demand Builds For Medical MarijuanaLock Icon

After two months and $2 million in sales, Arkansas’ spanking new medical marijuana industry is poised to break a supply logjam. read more >
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Update: State Cannabis Sales Hit 107 Pounds ($700K); New Grow Site, Dispensaries in Play

The state's new medical marijuana industry is rolling ahead with a second grow center and a third dispensary — the first outside Hot Springs — poised to join the lineup. read more >
Medical marijunana vape cartridges will offer specific strains of cannabis in 500-milligram doses.
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Cannabis Edibles, Concentrates and Syringes on Way, Bold Team Says

Bold Team LLC, the cultivation center that brought in Arkansas’ first legal marijuana crop, will soon have something for medical marijuana patients to chew on — or vape, or rub into their sore spots. read more >
Robert Lercher of Bold Team provides some scale to some of the 1,600 or so medical marijuana plants that were growing last week at the state's first up-and-running medical marijuana cultivation center in Cotton Plant.
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Medical Cannabis Has $100,000 Opening; Gummies and Oils on Way

Legal marijuana sales finally arrived in Arkansas in a $100,000 opening weekend at the state's first two medical cannabis dispensaries, which had together sold about 15 pounds' worth by Monday night. read more >
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Hot Springs Dispensary Doctors Orders RX Gets State OK to Open

Arkansas' first medical marijuana dispensary will open in Hot Springs. The state Department of Finance and Administration says that Doctors Orders RX at 4893 Malvern Ave. passed state inspection, received final state approval and could open when ready. read more >
Robert Lercher, who couldn’t touch the plants without gloves, mimics peeling “sucker leaves” from immature plants
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Gummies Can Wait: Arkansas’ First Legal Pot Crop Is In, and It’s All Bud

Employees of Bold Team LLC of Cotton Plant, the first operating cultivator in the state's 29-month march to establishing a medical cannabis market, completed stripping hundreds of mature plants this week. The state expects the first dispensary to open in Hot Springs by mid-May. read more >
The 32 companies licensed in Arkansas to sell medical marijuana have sometimes faced challenges in finding commercial real estate zoned for a dispensary.
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Arkansas Pot Plots Proved Smokin’ HotLock Icon

Pinpointing legally permissible real estate for the state’s first medical cannabis enterprises after a 2016 legalization vote was like plunging into the haystack to find the perfect spot for a needle, those involved in the process say. read more >
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Medical Marijuana Patients Still Waiting to InhaleLock Icon

Twenty-eight months after Arkansans voted to legalize medical marijuana, the state’s 10,000 patients with cannabis cards can expect to wait a bit longer for their medicine to reach the market. read more >
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Third Medical Marijuana Cultivator Approved to Start Growing

A third medical marijuana cultivation facility has been approved to start growing, leaving just two facilities waiting for state inspection. read more >
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2nd Medical Marijuana Cultivation Company Gets State Clearance

Osage Creek Cultivation in Berryville is now the second company growing medical marijuana in Arkansas, joining Bold Team of Cotton Plant as the second of five cannabis cultivation sites cleared by the state. read more >
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Medical Marijuana Put on Back BurnerLock Icon

Impatient patients will have to wait at least until the end of April to buy legal medical marijuana in Arkansas. read more >
Don Sears, Frankie Sears and Todd Sears were each awarded a license to operate medical marijuana dispensaries in Arkansas.
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Marijuana Dispensary Trio Failed to Mention Family TieLock Icon

A Mayflower family that failed to acknowledge their relationship is at the center of an investigation and a lawsuit over the granting of licenses for three medical marijuana dispensaries in Arkansas. read more >
Bold Team’s Robert Lercher says medical cannabis will be harvested soon.
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Feds Seize Cannabis Seeds Heading to Bold Team FacilityLock Icon

Federal authorities seized cannabis seeds in transit to the state’s first marijuana business operating legally, the cultivator Bold Team LLC of Cotton Plant. read more >
Grow Tech Eric Pruitt helps a valuable little plant get off to a good start.
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The Secret Life of Marijuana PlantsLock Icon

The town is Cotton Plant, but since Bold Team LLC opened the state’s first operating medical marijuana cultivation center, the municipality stands to reap a windfall from the cannabis plant. read more >
Robert Lercher of Bold Team with immature plants that will likely be among the first to reach the state’s new medical marijuana market. The cultivator may sell to any or all of 32 dispensary sites.
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Bold Team Provides Peek at Arkansas’ First Legal Pot OperationLock Icon

Bold Team LLC is growing the state’s first legal marijuana in Cotton Plant. Arkansas Business took a tour of the company’s $6 million operation. read more >
The leadership Bold Team, from left, are Director of Human Resources Misty Drennan, her husband and COO Mark Drennan, Director of Customer Relations Robert Lercher, Director of Inventory and Quality Control Cayne Orman, and CEO Danny W. Brown, shown inset.
Agriculture & Poultry / Health Care

For Bold Team, Here Are the Players

Bold Team LLC, the state's first operating medical marijuana cultivator, owes its name to four of its owners and executives: Brown, Orman, Lercher and Drennan. read more >
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Who Owns Dispensaries? Documents Show Who’ll Sell Medical Cannabis

A complete list of who owns the companies in line to get licenses to operate the 32 medical marijuana dispensary sites approved by state regulators. read more >
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Bold Team Is First Arkansas Facility OK’d to Grow Medical Marijuana

An eastern Arkansas facility has become the first to get approval to begin growing medical marijuana to provide to dispensaries. read more >
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Arkansas Medical Marijuana Growers Say Drug Ready by Spring

Two of the businesses licensed by Arkansas to grow medical marijuana say they expect to have the drug available for dispensaries as soon as April. read more >
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Forward Motion (Editorial)

It’s too late to wonder why the MMC didn’t use the same time-tested approach used by the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to distribute package store licenses when a county goes wet: set a deadline for applications, determine whether each applicant meets all legal requirements and then draw randomly from among the qualified applicants. read more >