Arkansas’ new medical marijuana industry completed its first year this week with a tsunami of sales, with the year of revenue topping $75 million, a startling 40 percent of that coming since March 1. read more >
As consumers rushed to buy necessities and stock up on medication for the weeks of expected general isolation over the coronavirus outbreak, Arkansans were also stocking up on medical marijuana, a sales surge suggests. 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 >
Feminine hands are everywhere in the medical marijuana and hemp industries, up and running in the state for less than a year. Their roles range from co-owning $10 million cultivation centers to staffing dispensary counters as budtenders. read more >
The state of Arkansas has joined the long-running lawsuit against online travel companies over the taxes paid on the price of a hotel room. read more >
A company rejected for an Arkansas medical marijuana dispensary license is suing to clear the air over the state’s process of selecting replacement retail outlets when the original licensees fail to open for business. read more >
Pulaski County’s three medical cannabis dispensaries are on the cusp of opening, pending inspections, and a state spokesman announced Friday that the Medical Marijuana Commission has also cleared the way for an additional dispensary license in Pine Bluff. read more >
Knowing your customer is a business commandment, and for casinos, it may be the most crucial card game. read more >
Putting in a medical marijuana dispensary in Arkansas is a game of inches, or at least feet. read more >
Northeast Arkansas will get its first medical marijuana dispensary when NEA Full Spectrum opens at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Brookland, about five miles northeast of Jonesboro. read more >
Legal medical marijuana has yet to creep up on Little Rock. read more >
Herbology, the first Little Rock medical marijuana dispensary to seek state inspection, didn’t make its Nov. 7 goal for opening, disappointing local patients still waiting to inhale. 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 >
With only 10 Arkansas medical marijuana dispensaries running and the state pressing the other 22 licensed companies to move quickly, dispensaries in Little Rock and Sherwood plan to open late next month or in early December. read more >
A medical marijuana dispensary set to open Friday in Conway will be the state's 10th legal outlet for cannabis, state officials said Wednesday, a day after an Alcoholic Beverage Control leader lamented the slow rollout of dispensaries. 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 >
Gallery B Inc., led by John Magee, reaped a purchase price of $200,000 for the ramshackle 2,512-SF building that housed Gallery 360 and will house Natural State Wellness Dispensary. read more >
Even with Bold Team of Cotton Plant producing more than 5,000 gummies a day, the demand for the $5 marijuana edibles is outweighing the supply. 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 >
