Arkansas A.G. Rejects Recreational Marijuana Proposal

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Last week Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge rejected yet another proposal to legalize recreational marijuana.

Like virtually every other recreational marijuana proposal, the measure would have let adults and companies grow, buy, sell, and use marijuana for any reason.

The A.G.’s office rejected it, saying that the proposal suffered from the same “fundamental shortcomings” that have caused the office to reject other recreational marijuana proposals.

Attorney General Rutledge rejected at least 17 similar measures last year. This is the third recreational marijuana proposal her office has rejected so far this year.

As we have said before, marijuana’s proponents aren’t content with “medical marijuana.” The endgame is — and always has been — full legalization.

You can read the A.G.’s entire opinion here.

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HHS Secretary: “No Such Thing as Medical Marijuana”

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Last week U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told news media in Ohio,

“There really is no such thing as medical marijuana. . . . There is no FDA approved use of marijuana, a botanical plant. I just want to be very clear about that.”

The statement echoes comments the DEA Chief made in 2015 saying that marijuana is not medicine and that medical marijuana is “a joke.”

Marijuana’s potency varies from plant to plant, depending on growing conditions.

Marijuana “doses” cannot be measured the way pills or cough syrups can. Studies have concluded that attempts to dose of marijuana are highly unpredictable.

What if you opened a bottle of Aspirin to find no two pills were the same size or contained the same levels of active ingredients? That would be unimaginable, but it happens with so-called “medical” marijuana.

We have said it for years: Marijuana may be many things, but medicine simply is not one of them.

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Commission Announces Locations for Marijuana Farms in Arkansas

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Yesterday the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission announced the five companies who will be authorized to grow marijuana in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette writes,

The winning bidders are:

-Natural State Medicinals Cultivation of Jefferson County

-Bold Team LLC (Woodruff County)

-Natural State Wellness Enterprises (Jefferson and Jackson counties)

-Osage Creek Cultivation (Carroll County)

-Delta Medical Cannabis Company Inc. (Jackson County)

Each group can only operate one growing center, so Natural State Wellness Enterprises must chose between its two winning proposals.

The Arkansas Constitution lets cities and counties vote to prohibit marijuana farms and stores by circulating petitions to place the issue on the ballot.

If you want to learn more about how your county can prohibit marijuana farms and stores, contact our office at (501) 375-7000.

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