Medical Marijuana Licensing Under Fire
Sworn depositions reveal that the original licensing process was questionable enough to spawn an FBI investigation. read more >
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Arkansas Medical Marijuana Licensing: A Timeline
A brief overview of the formation and early years of Arkansas' medical marijuana industry. read more >
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An Updated Look at Medical Marijuana Ownership in Arkansas
In conjunction with this week’s feature on the controversial history of medical marijuana business licensing in Arkansas, Arkansas Business sought out an update on the precise ownership of the state’s eight cannabis cultivation licensees. read more >
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Good Day Farm Excited for the Possibility of Recreational Marijuana, Says CEO Ryan Herget
In less than two years, the Good Day Farm has grown from a local cannabis company to the largest cannabis company in the South. read more >
Neobanking: Abaca Reads Smoke Signals
Here's how central Arkansas was an incubator at the beginning of marijuana fintech. read more >
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Racial Bias Alleged In Dispensary Denial
A Little Rock Black-owned business that sued the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission also has a case alleging racial discrimination against the firm that scored the applications for medical marijuana dispensary licenses. read more >
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Cannabis Cultivators in Fight Over Ouster From Company
The majority owners of Natural State Medicinals Cultivation of White Hall voted in September to expel a married couple from the company. The problem is, the pair don’t want to go. read more >
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Good Day Farm’s Alex Gray Tells the Rest of the Story About Legal Marijuana
Alex Gray, attorney and chief strategy officer for Good Day Farm, says Arkansans should be able to vote on recreational cannabis. read more >
The Question That Must Not Be Asked (Gwen Moritz Commentary)
Let me tell you, there are some questions one simply must not ask. One of them is whether there’s any real evidence that legalizing marijuana reduces abuse of opioids. read more >
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Medical Marijuana Cards Prized in North-Central Arkansas
Data from the second fiscal year of medical marijuana sales in Arkansas confirms a trend spotted after 2020: Residents in north-central Arkansas are most likely to seek out the ID cards allowing them to buy the stuff. read more >
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Original Cannabis Card Counts Showed High Numbers
The first two lists contained countywide counts that were hard to believe, to put it mildly. read more >
Adult Marijuana Use No Threat to Licensees
A potential vote this year on legalizing recreational marijuana in Arkansas could cripple sales in the state’s fledgling quarter-billion-dollar-a-year medicinal cannabis industry, but industry players are more than fine with that. read more >
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The Wisdom of Humility (Editorial)
This week’s Whispers include a report on the difficulty in obtaining accurate data on the number of medical marijuana cards in the state from the Arkansas Department of Health. read more >
Medical Cannabis, as Expected, Sets Sales Record in 2021
Nearly 80,000 Arkansans now have medicinal marijuana cards. read more >
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For the Record (Lance Turner Editor’s Note)
Who owns the medical marijuana business in Arkansas? As with most simple questions, finding the answer is more complicated than it seems. read more >
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Cannabis Firm Ownership Tricky to Track
The state faces stiff headwinds providing public transparency in the medical marijuana dispensary industry, where lawsuits and charges of deception have been a constant for nearly five years. read more >
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Fort Smith Cannabis Cultivator Gets Growing
Arkansas has a new legal marijuana grower, and he’s hoping to supply the medical cannabis market with enough product to bring down prices. read more >
Cannabis Dispensary Move to Russellville Quashed
In sharp contrast to a string of cannabis dispensary location moves that breezed through the Arkansas medical marijuana system, 3J Investments Inc. hit a wall in its Aug. 5 application to transfer its dispensary site. read more >
Medical Marijuana Licensing Tests Scales of Justice
As Arkansas’ fledgling medical marijuana industry passed $300 million in cumulative sales, its licensing system for cannabis businesses was taking fire in court, not least for granting a cultivation license to a company that didn’t legally exist. read more >
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Cannabis Processor Scores License
After a long drought, Arkansas has its first cannabis processing licensee, Shake Extractions LLC of Johnson. read more >
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