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ABC board ponders medical marijuana rules on advertising, 'edibles,' transport and more

The rules endorsed by the ABC board on Tuesday restrict but do not prohibit TV, radio and print advertising for medical marijuana. The first draft presented Monday would have prohibited almost all such ads.
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Public hearing on Health Department's marijuana rules to be held March 10

The health department's rules only concern patient registration and the testing and labeling of marijuana. Regulation of the production, distribution and sale of the product, and the licensing of pot-related businesses, falls to Alcoholic Beverage Control and the Medical Marijuana Commission, respectively.
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Belaboring the obvious: Football and cancer

Belaboring the obvious about the cost of Razorback football coaches and fighting cigarette-related cancer.

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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Arkansas Health Department blasts medical marijuana

It's unsurprising that an agency under the control of Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson has come out against legalization of medical marijuana. But the Arkansas Health Department has done so.

UPDATED: Couple with court order gets birth certificate; others turned away

A same-sex couple that won a court order that their names should appear on their children's birth certificate went to the state Health Department today to get the birth certificate. That couple succeeded, but two other couples who were not plaintiffs in the case were not given birth certificates.
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Health Department phasing out home services program

State Health Department says money and private competition will lead to the end of its home health services program, a decision that will affect some 1,500 regular and contract employees.

State sued over refusal to put same-sex spouses on birth certificates

As promised last week, a lawsuit was filed in Pulaski Circuit Court today on behalf of three same-sex couples who've been unable to get the names of both parents on their children's birth certificates.
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Another Bledsoe for Arkansas health

Sen. Cecile Bledsoe, who chairs the Senate health committee, is the mother of the state's surgeon general, Dr. Gregory Bledsoe. Now the family is extending its influence into Arkansas health as the state Health Department seeks to hire her husband, Dr. James H. Bledsoe, as a part-time consultant for the department's Emergency Medical Services Section.

Vaccine exemptions in Arkansas: A CLARIFICATION

In 2003, the Arkansas legislature decided to add to existing exemptions for religious and medical reasons another exemption to immunization: philosophical grounds. That means if you don't want to immunize your child before sending him off to school, you don't have to. You do have to be granted an exemption from the state Department of Health.
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A cautionary word to Arkansas travelers about Ebola

UALR — and others — are following cautionary guidance from the Arkansas Health Department and urging people who've traveled recently to several African countries to check in with health offices as a precaution on account of the Ebola outbreak in Africa.

The coming hepatitis C 'tsunami'

There's a deadly virus infecting an estimated 38,000 Arkansans (only one in four of whom realize they have the disease) that is spread largely through IV drug use and sexual contact, but also medical procedures such as blood transfusions. It's not HIV, though — it's hepatitis C.
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