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Election Night Watch Party roundup

Here’s hoping you’ll have cast your ballot for the candidate and initiatives of your choice by the evening of Nov. 8. We've rounded up a few places to watch the election coverage on the big screen and, depending on how you lean politically, to celebrate with champagne (or commiserate with a whiskey sour) with your fellow citizens.
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Signatures added for 2nd medical marijuana proposal

David Couch, a Little Rock lawyer leading a petition drive to put a medical marijuana measure on the November election ballot, said he'd turned in additional signatures today to the secretary of state and believed the campaign had topped the number needed to qualify for a vote.
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Compassionate Care wants competing medical marijuana proposal to stay off the ballot and join its effort

Two potential competing ballot initiatives involving medical marijuana could confuse voters, argued the group Arkansans for Compassionate Care in a press conference today. The group, which is pushing the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act (AMCA), made the case that the other group, Arkansans United for Medical Marijuana, should stand down and join their effort.

Medical marijuana backers: Health Department opposition 'disingenuous' and 'cruel'

Arkansans for Compassionate Care, the group behind the first medical marijuana initiative to qualify for the ballot, has responded sharply to yesterday's statement by the Arkansas Health Department that it opposes legal medical use of marijuana.
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Medical marijuana group claims sufficient signatures for ballot

Curt Lanning at KARK reports that one of the groups circulating a medical marijuna initiative plans to turn in some 110,000 signatures Monday to qualify their measure for the ballot.

David Couch confident on medical marijuana ballot title

Little Rock attorney David Couch says he has initial commitments of $1.5 million to back his efforts to get 85,000 signatures to put his proposal to legalize medical marijuana on the ballot this fall. And Couch is confident voters will approve, telling Talk Business: “I have polled it… I’m at near 70% of the voters. I’m 90% certain we’re going to win.”
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Attorney general approves form of medical marijuana proposal

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has approved the form of a proposal to legalize medical marijuana for consideration in 2016.

A watershed year for marijuana

The New York Times writes this morning that more than half the states may consider ballot measures this year to legalize use of marijuana in some fashion,
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Federal government won't try to interfere with state marijuana laws

The Obama administration said today it would not sue to interfere with laws in 20 states legalizing marijuana to varying degrees.

Marijuana fight will continue no matter how the vote goes

Even if Arkansas voters should approve of Issue 5, the Medical Marijuana Act, in the Nov. 6 election, therapeutic weed won't be accessible soon.
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Medical marijuana initiative qualifies for ballot

The secretary of state's office today said that Arkansans for Compassionate Care has turned in a sufficient number of signatures to qualify its proposal to allow Arkansans with qualifying medical conditions to purchase marijuana from non-profit dispensaries.

The medical marijuana surprise

One proposal was lost in the flurry of petition-gathering this summer for initiatives ranging from ethics reform to casinos. Advocates for the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act — which would make Arkansas the 18th state, and the first in the South, to legalize personal use of marijuana for the purposes of medical relief — got an early start, but have had little visibility over the past few months.
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