An organization called 'Arkansas True Grass' is gathering signatures to put recreational marijuana on the ballot for the 2022 election. Under the proposed amendment, recreational weed would be legal and regulated by the Arkansas Agriculture Depar...

July 25, 2021

Since the first dispensary opened in mid-2019 in Hot Springs, Arkansans have spent $330.4 million to obtain 48,914 pounds of medical marijuana. ARKANSAS, USA — Business is booming for Arkansas medical mar...

June 8, 2021

Arkansas medical marijuana approaching 50,000 pounds in sales Posted: Jun 8, 2021 / 09:34 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 8, 2021 / 09:34 PM CDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – Arkansas medical marijuana sales have recently...

June 8, 2021

On Friday, May 10, 2019, Suite 443 in Hot Springs (then known as Doctor's Orders) opened its doors as the state's first medical marijuana dispensary. It was the toke heard (well, taken) 'round the world, setting off an economic revolution in Arkan...

May 30, 2021

The steadily growing Arkansas medical marijuana program is offering new business opportunities: processor and transporter licenses. Scott Hardin, spokesman for the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, wrote in an email that the state's MMJ cons...

January 24, 2021

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. House of Representatives is preparing a for a floor vote on The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement Act, which would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by removing it from the Controlled Substances...

August 30, 2020

Multistate marijuana company Green Thumb Industries' division in Arkansas is suing the state for allowing a medical cannabis business there to receive a second MMJ dispensary license. According to Law360.com, GTI Arkansas contends the language of...

July 25, 2020

HOT SPRINGS -- The state revenue agency reported Arkansans spent $583,000 a day on medical marijuana during a two-week period covered by the sales report the agency issued Friday. Through Tuesday, the state's 68,069 medical marijuana patients, ac...

July 20, 2020

Five Arkansas companies with permits to grow medical cannabis are suing to stop three more cultivation licenses from being issued. The lawsuit claims the three licenses that were issued in June violate language in the law that stipulated new lice...

July 18, 2020

ARKANSAS, USA -- Overall sales of medical marijuana in Arkansas recently surpassed $85 million, with nearly 14,000 pounds being sold since dispensaries first opened a year ago. 22 dispensaries are now in operation in Arkansas, with daily statewid...

June 20, 2020

LITTLE ROCK -- Covid-19's spread through the Natural State now casts doubts on some of what and who Arkansans will vote for in November. The virus has stolen the primary canvassing period from independent candidates and ballot initiative groups w...

March 23, 2020

A recent surge in sales brought Arkansas' nearly-year-old medical marijuana industry over the $50 million threshold. The milestone comes after what local television station KATV described Monday as a "significant increase in sales last week." Sin...

March 22, 2020