Arkansas Cannabis Sales Hit Annual Record
Arkansas cannabis sales hit a new high in 2022, topping $276.3 million, making it the biggest year of sales since sales began in 2019. read more >
Arkansas cannabis sales hit a new high in 2022, topping $276.3 million, making it the biggest year of sales since sales began in 2019. read more >
Storm Nolan argues that a ruling against River Valley Relief was flawed, and says $6 million worth of medical cannabis would go to waste if he's stripped of his license. read more >
A Pulaski County circuit judge rules that the Medical Marijuana Commission and others acted “unreasonably, unlawfully, and capriciously” by awarding a cultivation license to River Valley Relief Cultivation of Fort Smith. read more >
All told, marijuana legalization campaigns have raised about $23 million in five states, including Arkansas. read more >
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 >
A brief overview of the formation and early years of Arkansas' medical marijuana industry. read more >
Sworn depositions reveal that the original licensing process was questionable enough to spawn an FBI investigation. read more >
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 >
Here's how central Arkansas was an incubator at the beginning of marijuana fintech. read more >
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 >
The first two lists contained countywide counts that were hard to believe, to put it mildly. read more >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
Alex Gray, attorney and chief strategy officer for Good Day Farm, says Arkansans should be able to vote on recreational cannabis. read more >
Nearly 80,000 Arkansans now have medicinal marijuana cards. read more >
Who owns the medical marijuana business in Arkansas? As with most simple questions, finding the answer is more complicated than it seems. read more >
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 >
