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An effort to add 40 more conditions that would qualify patients to use medical marijuana in Arkansas has failed before a legislative committee. read more >

Arkansas' Republican-dominated House has approved a proposal that would levy an extra 4 percent tax on marijuana. read more >

The Arkansas House voted Tuesday to delay the launch of the state's voter-approved medical marijuana program and ease a restriction on doctors who certify a patient is eligible to use the drug. read more >

Arkansas House members endorsed a bill Thursday allowing different drugs to be used in lethal injections, in a measure aimed at helping restart executions in the state that an attorney for some death row inmates warned would lead to more litigation. read more >

Ticket scalpers are merely selling a luxury item for which demand has outstripped limited supply. No children need go hungry; no parents are trapped in a spiral of inescapable debt; no employment is threatened by lack of transportation. read more >

The Arkansas House has rejected a proposal to legalize the scalping of concert tickets in the state. read more >