Arkansans spent $181 million on more than 28,000 pounds of medical marijuana in 2020, the first full year of legal cannabis sales in the state, according to data from the state Department of Finance & Administration. read more >
The coronavirus pandemic has correlated with an increase in legal marijuana purchases both statewide and nationally. read more >
Arkansas medical marijuana retailers have generated $190 million in sales since May 2019. Accounting for them is a challenge and an opportunity, professionals say. read more >
Hot Springs dispensary owner Dragan Vicentic's penchant for paying for cannabis in cash, disdaining electronic payments, gives marijuana cultivator reason for blacklisting. read more >
The state’s largest medical marijuana merchant says Arkansas cultivators have blackballed his business, and he’s planning to sue, alleging they cut off sales after he lobbied for the state to license more growers. read more >
As Arkansas’ medical marijuana industry blossoms, cultivators are pushing back against a narrative that short wholesale supplies have kept prices too high for some patients to buy. read more >
The early bird may get the worm, but being the first legal medical marijuana dispensary to open in Arkansas was not enough to keep Suite 443 of Hot Springs ahead of the rush of competitors. read more >
Little Rock's first cannabis dispensary has set a tentative opening date of Nov. 7, ahead of state plans to punish medical marijuana outlets it sees as dragging their feet on starting operations. read more >
As Arkansas crossed the thousand-pound landmark in medical marijuana sales the Hot Springs dispensary that sold the state's first legal cannabis became the first retail outlet to grow, harvest and prepare to sell self-grown product. read more >
After two months and $2 million in sales, Arkansas’ spanking new medical marijuana industry is poised to break a supply logjam. read more >
Just a month after the state’s first medical marijuana dispensaries opened, Arkansas’ new legal cannabis industry is already a million-dollar affair. read more >
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 >
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 >
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 >
Qualifying patients could begin buying medical marijuana Saturday when the state's first dispensary opened, though the celebratory mood was dampened by confusion about operating hours and fears the dispensary wouldn't be able to serve all the patients by closing time. read more >
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 >
