Tag: arkansas

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July 24, 2014
07/24/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.07.23)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.07.23)

Medical marijuana takes another step toward self-regulation, patients and supporters rally for a fired Arizona medical marijuana researcher, Illinois expands its medical marijuana program, and more. Let’s...
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May 15, 2014
05/15/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.05.14)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.05.14)

Initiative signature-gathering campaigns are underway in Arkansas and Ohio and about to get underway in Oklahoma, the future of San Jose dispensaries remains unsettled, Minnesota lawmakers meet...
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May 1, 2014
05/01/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.04.30)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.04.30)

Medical marijuana continues hot and heavy in state legislatures across the country, there’s a petition for a patient denied access to a liver transplant in California, two...
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April 17, 2014
04/17/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.04.16)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.04.16)

With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Maryland becomes the 21st medical marijuana state. Meanwhile, those CBD medical marijuana bills continue to move. And more. Let’s get...
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March 27, 2014
03/27/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.03.26)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.03.26)

Whew! Busy, busy, busy at the statehouse, with both traditional medical marijuana bills and newfangled CBD medical marijuana bills getting lots of attention. And more. Let’s get...
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March 20, 2014
03/20/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.03.19)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.03.19)

A federal agency has given the okay for researchers to buy marijuana from NIDA for a PTSD study, which is a first, those CBD medical marijuana bills...
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December 16, 2013
12/16/2013
10 States Most Addicted to Cigarette Smoking, Guess How Many Permit Cannabis Use

10 States Most Addicted to Cigarette Smoking, Guess How Many Permit Cannabis Use

Health.com recently used “government data on smoking (and quit) rates, smoking bans and restrictions, cigarette taxes and sales, and deaths attributable to smoking” to identify the top...
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December 5, 2013
12/05/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.12.04)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.12.04)

Arkansas Baptists reject medical marijuana, and so do some California communities. New Jersey’s governor mouths off, and Illinois and Massachusetts communities move to regulate soon-to-arrive medical marijuana...
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November 14, 2013
11/14/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.11.13)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.11.13)

Budweiser sponsors a medical marijuana campaign event in Arkansas, California localities continue to grapple with regulating the business, and there is action afoot in Utah. And that’s...
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November 8, 2013
11/08/2013
Arkansans for Compassionate Care Kicks Off With Music Fest

Arkansans for Compassionate Care Kicks Off With Music Fest

Medical marijuana advocates Arkansans for Compassionate Care (ACC) and Americans for Safe Access (ASA) have joined forces to put an initiative on the 2014 ballot. The Arkansas...
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October 10, 2013
10/10/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.10.09)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.10.09)

The feds back off in some Southern California asset forfeiture cases, an Iowa newspaper tells local authorities to back off from prosecuting a cancer patient, and several...
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October 7, 2013
10/07/2013
Arkansas: MMJ Proposal Cleared To Gather Signatures

Arkansas: MMJ Proposal Cleared To Gather Signatures

A new Arkansas MMJ proposal has been cleared to gather signatures by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. Supporters of the proposal will need to gather over 60,000 signatures...
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September 5, 2013
09/05/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.09.04)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.09.04)

Federal prosecutors speak out on how the Justice Department’s new stance on legalization will affect their medical marijuana prosecutions (not much), an initiative’s language gets rejected for...
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August 12, 2013
08/12/2013
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Initiatives Aim at 2014

Arkansas Medical Marijuana Initiatives Aim at 2014

Two separate medical marijuana initiative campaigns aimed at the November 2014 ballot are underway in Arkansas. A similar effort to legalize medical marijuana failed in 2012, but...
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July 23, 2013
07/23/2013
Arkansas AG Rejects Medical Marijuana for the Sixth Time

Arkansas AG Rejects Medical Marijuana for the Sixth Time

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has yet again rejected a proposal to put medical marijuana up for a vote in the state. For the sixth time, McDaniel...
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July 22, 2013
07/22/2013
Settlement Reached in Arkansas Marijuana Machine Lawsuit

Settlement Reached in Arkansas Marijuana Machine Lawsuit

Jerry Cox, president of an Arkansas conservative “family values” group that campaigned against legalizing medical marijuana, agreed not to refer in certain ways to Medicine Dispensing Systems...
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July 18, 2013
07/18/2013
Medical Marijuana Ballot Title Submitted in Arkansas, Again

Medical Marijuana Ballot Title Submitted in Arkansas, Again

Arkansans for Compassionate Care submitted a ballot title, the “Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act”, to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. McDaniel has already rejected medical marijuana legislation five times,...
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July 3, 2013
07/03/2013
Arkansas AG Rejects Medical Marijuana Proposal, Again

Arkansas AG Rejects Medical Marijuana Proposal, Again

For the fifth time, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has rejected a medical marijuana proposal that would put the issue on the ballot. McDaniel says the language is...
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April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.04.17)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.04.17)

There’s something rotten in the Salt Lake Valley and maybe in East Tennessee, too. Meanwhile, an Arkansas cop heads to prison for protecting dope loads and a...
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April 15, 2013
04/15/2013
Public Benefits Drug Testing Bills Move in Three States

Public Benefits Drug Testing Bills Move in Three States

Bills that would require recipients of public benefits, such as welfare or unemployment benefits, to submit to drug testing, have advanced in three states. On Monday, an...
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