Dispensary Cultivation Begins as Demand Builds For Medical Marijuana
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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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Arkansas Pot Plots Proved Smokin’ Hot
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 Inhale
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 >
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 Burner
Impatient patients will have to wait at least until the end of April to buy legal medical marijuana in Arkansas. read more >
Marijuana Dispensary Trio Failed to Mention Family Tie
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 >
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Feds Seize Cannabis Seeds Heading to Bold Team Facility
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 >
The Secret Life of Marijuana Plants
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 >
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Bold Team Provides Peek at Arkansas’ First Legal Pot Operation
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 >
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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 >