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UPDATE: Supreme Court names special masters to consider ballot challenges

The Arkansas Supreme Court issued a flurry of orders late this afternoon to get procedures in place to hear efforts to disqualify three proposed constitutional amendments and one initiated act otherwise certified for the Nov. 8 ballot.
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Medical marijuana? Yes.

Proponents of competing medical marijuana proposals have begun sniping at each other. Private cultivation and methods of dispensation are among the arguments.
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Lawsuit challenges marijuana amendment

Now three lawsuits are pending over two competing medical marijuana initiatives.

Medical marijuana: a partisan divide over a simple choice

John Lyon of the Arkansas News Bureau highlights the emerging difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party on marijuana. This issue is simpler than it looks from where I sit.
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Democrats back medical marijuana, sort of

An AP Twitter caught my attention with this headline: "Eldridge, Arkansas Democrats back medical marijuana." The full story is more nuanced in the current Arkansas context.

Medical marijuana foes sue over ballot title

The newly formed group that opposes medical marijuana filed a court challenge today of the initiated act approved for the ballot on the ground that the ballot title approved by the attorney general is misleading.
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That time Asa Hutchinson sort of endorsed medical marijuana

Advocates of medical marijuana are circulating a YouTube video of a 2011 debate at the University of Arkansas between Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, and Asa Hutchinson, not then governor but speaking as a former DEA Administrator and congressman. Hutchinson seemed open to medical use of marijuana.

Group forms to fight medical marijuana

A coalition of powerful lobbying groups filed papers with the Arkansas Ethics Commission Tuesday to fight medical marijuana issues headed for the November ballot.
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Surgeon general ready to fight medical marijuana

Arkansas Surgeon General Gregory Bledsoe has taken to social media to seek speaking engagements to oppose medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana group emphasizes positive in emergence of competitor

The first group to qualify a medical marijuana measure for the November ballot issued a statement Friday expressing equanimity with a competing measure that submitted sufficient signatures Friday to qualify for the ballot.
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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.

Marijuana amendment backers get more time to collect signatures

The Associated Press reports that the Secretary of State's office verified 72,309 signatures on petitions for the November ballot submitted by Arkansans United for Medical Marijuana, short of the 84,859 required. But because the number is at least 75 percent of the required number, the office will extend the deadline to Aug. 29 for backers to reach the required number.
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