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'Arkansans United for Medical Marijuana'

UPDATE: No ruling today on marijuana lawsuit

No decisiion today in lawsuit challenging top scores in competition for medical marijuana cultivation permits.
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Arkansas's medical marijuana growers come to light

Four counties, five companies, lots of jobs in the cannabis business.
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Another delay in release of medical marijuana applications

The state isn't yet ready to release details on ownership of the five top-scoring applicants to grow medical marijuana in Arkansas, but we've rounded up a few details.

Medical marijuana madness unfolds Tuesday

The licensing of medical marijuana cultivation facilities begins Tuesday in Arkansas. Chaos, conspiracy theories and legal confusion seem certain to follow.
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Rutledge: AG's office will investigate drug makers over opioid addiction in Arkansas

Citing what she called "staggering statistics," including Arkansas's #2 ranking for overall opioid prescriptions, and top ranking in the number of teens abusing prescription painkillers, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announce today that her office will investigate the corporate manufacturers of opioid drugs, bringing on extra help from private firms, with an eye toward potential litigation or prosecutions.

Evolving story: The politics of medical marijuana in Arkansas

Inevitability, politics will play a role in medical marijuana in Arkansas. Example: a past alliance between a regulator and an application to be among the regulated.
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Marijuana and guns don't mix, or so the federal law says

The advent of medical marijuana in Arkansas presents a problem for users who also own guns. Or so the federal law says.

Rep. House: Sessions' repeal of hands-off policy on legal marijuana is 'inviting a disaster'

An state representative who has worked extensively with Arkansas banks in the search for financial institutions to provide banking for the state's burgeoning medical cannabis industry says that Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement that he will rescind Obama-era guidelines that direct the federal government to take a hands-off approach to marijuana in states that have legalized medical and recreational cannabis will spook banks from working with dispensaries and cultivators, potentially forcing cannabis-related businesses to deal solely in cash.
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Governor: Feds shouldn't target medical marijuana but recreational use is fair game

Hutchinson did not directly criticize Sessions' decision, suggesting that it would be appropriate to enforce federal laws against marijuana in states that have sanctioned the recreational (rather than medical) use of the drug.

UPDATE: Sessions rescinds memo that stopped crackdown on legal pot

According to the Associated Press, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will rescind an Obama-era Department of Justice memo that directed federal prosecutors not to go after marijuana convictions in states where it's been legalized.
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State tallies 323 applications to grow or sell medical marijuana

The state Department of Finance and Administration Department released this evening a tally of total applications to either cultivate (95) or dispense (228) marijuana under the new medical marijuana law.

Accountants cleared for medical marijuana business

The website Marijuana Business Daily reports that the accounting regulatory board in Arkansas has cleared accountants to provide professional services to people in the medical marijuana business.
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