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 >
Booze and marijuana have been shelter-at-home staples since the coronavirus pandemic swept America, according to nationwide sales figures, and now Arkansas’ medical cannabis system is adapting to social distancing. read more >
State officials confirm a significant spike in medical marijuana sales, which has seen significantly bigger purchases by cannabis patients since the coronavirus outbreak. 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 >
Rogers couple Chelsie and Chris Miles have created CannaCook.com, a platform for patients who use medical marijuana. read more >
Both the supporters and the opponents of legalizing recreational marijuana in Arkansas say they’re thinking of the children. read more >
A North Little Rock enterprise, launched in the Little Rock Technology Park and given flight with venture capital from Colorado, keeps pioneering its way into the burgeoning billions of cannabis commerce. read more >
Overall sales in the legalized cannabis industry in the United States were expected to hit $13.6 billion in 2019, a 32% increase of the 2018 total of $10.3 billion, according to New Frontier Data of Washington, D.C., a data provider for the cannabis sector. read more >
Erika Gee has been actively representing clients in the emerging Arkansas medical marijuana industry. read more >
Hard on the heels of two medical marijuana dispensaries opening in Little Rock, the metro region will get its first cannabis outlet north of the Arkansas River within weeks in Sherwood, according to officials with Natural Relief Dispensary. read more >
The long-awaited Herbology medicinal marijuana dispensary on Kanis Road in Little Rock will open Wednesday, according to company officials with Grassroots Cannabis, that national company operating the outlet. read more >
Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen temporarily bars the state Medical Marijuana Commission from issuing dispensary licenses as part of a lawsuit over the state's process of selecting replacement dispensaries when the original licensees fail to open. 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 >
Harvest House of Cannabis, Little Rock’s first medical marijuana outlet, has opened at 900 Rodney Parham Road, culminating a three-year path to a retail cannabis market in Pulaski County. read more >
2019 was the end of the line for Atlanta investment firm Invesco’s ownership at Shackleford Crossings. After eight years, it decided to cut its losses and sell its remaining stake in the west Little Rock retail center. read more >
A Little Rock medical marijuana dispensary, Harvest House of Cannabis, has been cleared by the state to open, the Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration announces. read more >
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission rejected the sale of two medical marijuana dispensary licenses Tuesday, signaling frustration with licensees attempting to sell without having made significant progress toward opening their outlets. read more >
With medical marijuana expected to boom into a $100 million-a-year business in Arkansas within a year or two, medical clinics specializing in marijuana certifications are cropping up to handle the rush. read more >
Marijuana is one of the few growth industries we have right now. Of course, I'm referring to the new industry of legal marijuana. Weed has been a profitable enterprise for the most risk-tolerant entrepreneurs for decades. 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 >
