Photo: Fiddler’s Green Dispensary, located at 16150 Arkansas Highway 9 in Mountain View
As Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) prepares for its Wednesday morning meeting at 9 with a local medical marijuana dispensary on the agenda, the state is reporting cannabis sales have passed a quarter of a billion dollars.
The ABC agenda includes a hearing via a video conference for Fiddler’s Green Dispensary, located at 16150 Arkansas Highway 9 in Mountain View.
According to the agenda, the hearing is for the appeal of a violation order in Sept. 2020. At that time, the dispensary was cited for
– failure to properly label medical cannabis;
– failure by operator to cooperate with ABC Enforcement;
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed Tuesday (March 9) a bill that prohibits abortions except in cases involving the health of the mother. The pro-life measure does not have an allowance for abortions in the case of rape or incest.
The bill, SB 6 (now Act 309), sailed through the supermajority Republican state Legislature. With 78 Republicans in the House and 27 in the Senate, the bill met little resistance in either chamber.
Though litigation is expected over the law, without court intervention it would go into effect in Arkansas on Aug. 3, 2021.
Hutchinson had voiced concerns about the measure due to the lack of a provision for rape or incest. In signing the bill, he acknowledged that concern, but it did not stop him from making the bill state law.
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Arkansans are spending approximately $665,000 daily on medical marijuana purchases, according to a commission spokesperson.Scott Hardin, spokesperson for the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, says, since the first dispensary opened in mid-2019, Arkansans have spent $242 million to obtain 36,656 pounds of medical marijuana.
Locally, residents have purchased 2,592 pounds in Zone 2. Zone 2 serves Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren and Cleburne counties.
Hardin says there are 32 dispensaries in operation throughout Arkansas, with six working toward opening for business (38 dispensaries have been licensed).
The Arkansas Department of Health reports 66,638 active patient cards.
Below is the full report of total medical marijuana sales through Tuesday.