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Arkansas’s medical marijuana patients aren’t just blowing smoke: Many are using the wide variety of edible products created by the state’s cultivators and made available at the state’s 31 open dispensaries. From gummies to chocolates to hard candies, edible products provide an alternative for patients who don’t want to smoke.

Meet the future Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Stewart, engaged this weekend at Native Green Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary in Hensley.

As the number of medical marijuana patients in the state has surged past 80,000, dispensaries have reported difficulty obtaining flower from the state’s four operating cultivators, with some cannabis strains unavailable entirely.

In a 3-2 vote last night, the state Medical Marijuana Commission voted down a motion to license an additional dispensary.

Plus, more news on the pot Rx front.

Sleeplessness, PTSD, epilepsy all relieved by cannabis.

Medical marijuana dispensaries offer delivery, add new in-store safety measures.

We talk terpenes with a Little Rock budtender.

Harvest House of Cannabis arrives in Little Rock and takes weed upscale. But is that enough?

At a press conference Thursday morning, Sen. Cecile Bledsoe and several conservative state and faith leaders warned Arkansans about the dangers of marijuana and implored voters not to sign petitions in favor of legalizing the drug.

The state Medical Marijuana Commission has voted to issue a fifth dispensary license to Southeast Arkansas's Zone 7, in which only one of the zone's four licensed dispensaries has opened for business.

Dispensaries share how they price their products and their hopes for the growing industry.

Arkansas has 14 operating medical marijuana dispensaries, most of which have opened in more densely populated areas of the state. Northwest Arkansas’s Zone 1 is the only zone in the state in which all four dispensaries are open; none of the four dispensaries licensed to operate in Southwest Arkansas’s Zone 8 have opened.

Arkansas dispensaries share their best-selling strains and products.

The Commission approved change in ownership requests for four dispensaries, including the total sale of THC Rx in West Memphis. 

A Q&A with comedian and Little Rock native Matt Besser about his new stand-up special "Pot Humor," which explores stoner culture, pot semantics and parenthood.

New clinics help patients get certification that the state requires.

How Little Rock designer Korto Momolu brought a weed-inspired collection to New York Fashion Week.

As the medical marijuana industry grows, law enforcement agencies in Arkansas are faced with an unprecedented problem: identifying how much cannabis in a cardholder’s system renders them too impaired to drive. 

The state ABC Division has announced an eighth medical marijuana dispensary has been cleared to open. It's expected to open Thursday in Bentonville.