Arkansas A.G. Pushes Back Against Pro-Marijuana Group
The Arkansas Attorney General has asked the state supreme court to dismiss a pro-marijuana group’s lawsuit against state officials.
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Group Asks to Intervene Against Marijuana in State Supreme Court
On Wednesday the group Save Arkansas From Epidemic (SAFE) filed documents opposing marijuana legalization before the Arkansas Supreme Court.
SAFE’s motion is part of the ongoing lawsuit over a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize so-called “recreational” marijuana in Arkansas.
Responsible Growth Arkansas has been working for months to place an amendment legalizing marijuana on the ballot.
In August the group filed a lawsuit against state officials after the Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners unanimously voted not to certify the group’s proposed marijuana amendment for the November ballot.
The Arkansas Attorney General’s office has asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to dismiss the lawsuit altogether. Dismissing the case would mean the marijuana amendment would not appear on the ballot.
Now Save Arkansas From Epidemic has asked the state supreme court to let them intervene in the lawsuit and oppose the marijuana amendment as well.
On Tuesday Save Arkansas From Epidemic filed affidavits from Dr. Kevin A. Sabet, Ph. D., and veteran law enforcement official David Burnett in court.
Dr. Sabet’s affidavit focuses on how THC levels in marijuana have skyrocketed over the years. He points out that the proposed marijuana amendment removes THC limits in Amendment 98 to the Arkansas Constitution and would prevent the State of Arkansas from limiting THC levels in marijuana in the future.
Mr. Burnett’s affidavit argues that marijuana legalization would force the State of Arkansas to spend at least $500,000 on new drug interdiction training for law enforcement.
As we have said before, the proposed amendment makes sweeping changes to Arkansas’ laws regarding marijuana.
It repeals, replaces, and rewrites several parts of Arkansas’ medical marijuana amendment that voters passed in 2016, it adds new language to other parts of the Arkansas Constitution, and it drastically expands marijuana in every community in Arkansas.
It is unclear just how far-reaching some of these changes may be.
U.K. Transgender Clinic Forced to Close
According to the BBC, the U.K.’s “only dedicated gender identity clinic” for youth has been ordered to shut down. The reason is not a lack of demand. In fact, referrals for “treatment” are 20 times higher than 10 years ago.
Rather, the clinic has received wide criticism from an independent report of their practices. Former patient Kiera Bell, now 25, was prescribed puberty blockers at age 16. She underwent a double mastectomy at age 20. She has now changed her mind about the procedures and says that doctors “should have challenged” her thinking, especially at such a young age.
A former consultant psychiatrist to the center agrees: “Some children have got the double problem of living with the wrong treatment, and the original problems weren’t addressed—with complex problems like trauma, depression, large instances of autism.”
While countries like the U.K. are questioning these wrongly named “gender affirmation” treatments, clinics, academics, and the executive branch of the government in the U.S. have only doubled down. We should stop now. The rising tide of those who are expressing regret is quickly becoming an ocean.
Copyright 2025 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.