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The owner of a medical marijuana grow operation that lost one of eight cultivation licenses allowed by the state has appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court in a bid to get a new trial to decide the matter.

The director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration, Doralee Chandler, issued an order Monday revoking the license for medical marijuana cultivator River Valley Relief, LLC.

The director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration, Doralee Chandler, issued an order Monday revoking the license for medical marijuana cultivator River Valley Relief, LLC.

A Fort Smith medical marijuana grower whose cultivation license was invalidated at court order earlier this month has been rejected again from joining the litigation that challenged the legitimacy of the award process.

State medical-marijuana regulators are flouting a judges order to revoke the license of an illegally certified Northwest Arkansas cannabis grower by refusing to immediately strip the company of the license like they were told to do, lawyers for the Little Rock company that claims its rightfully entitled to the license assert in an emergency motion on Tuesday. They warn that regulators are trying "to pull the wool over the courts eyes" and have "misled" the judge.

Arkansas medical marijuana regulators broke their own rules and made up new ones -- violating the state constitution -- to give a cultivation license to an obviously unqualified candidate, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright found. He ordered that the license, the last of eight available, be rescinded and re-awarded using proper procedures.

State medical marijuana regulators accused in a lawsuit of improperly awarding the last of Arkansas eight cultivation licenses might have their differences about how to proceed with the litigation but the latest court filings show they are united in opposing a lawsuit over the license.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright said he expects to decide by the end of the week whether to strip a Fort Smith medical marijuana grower of its cultivation license, the final one to be awarded, over accusations that state regulators wrongly awarded the license two years ago.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright said he expects to decide by the end of the week whether to strip a Fort Smith medical marijuana grower of its cultivation license, the final one to be awarded, over accusations that state regulators wrongly awarded the license two years ago.

Litigation to strip a Fort Smith medical marijuana cultivation facility of its growers license is on the fast track to be decided by a Pulaski County Circuit judge amid accusations that state regulators, their lawyers included, have deliberately lied or engaged in other unethical practices.