Arkansas

In November 2016, Arkansas voters passed Issue 6 with a 53% vote allowing for medicinal cannabis (marijuana).  Little did future patients realize how badly the Arkansas program was set up.  After legislation was approved to provide administrative and legal structure to the program, problems quickly ensued.  Many patients went through the expense and effort of certification and received medical cannabis cards in 2018.  The license was essentially worthless since patients couldn’t purchase medicine from an industry still struggling to launch.  The licensing and implementation process took so long that the state had to reissue and extend cards to patients who […]

Getting a medical marijuana card in Arkansas can be a simple process. Arkansas has broad patient requirements and all you need is to meet with a doctor and submit the proper forms to the Arkansas Department of Health. Read on for more details about the Arkansas medical marijuana program. Can I Get a Medical Marijuana Card in Arkansas? Yes! Voters enacted Arkansas’s Medical Marijuana Program in November 2016, which now consists of five cultivators and 33 retail dispensaries to serve over 40,000 medical marijuana patients in the state.  Can You Possess Medical Marijuana in Arkansas? Yes, if you are a […]

Arkansas Cannabis Jobs and Marijuana Careers Arkansas cannabis jobs and marijuana careers are on the rise. The state’s medical pot program was slow to start. It is steadily growing. Join thousands of other weed employees working in the industry. Keep reading to find out the state requirements to get hired. We cover disqualifying conditions, which could prevent you from getting hired. Industry Snapshot: Arkansas State voters approved medical pot use in 2016. Regulatory obstacles prevented the program from starting until May 2019. Since the medical program’s start, state residents have spent $163 million on 25,337 pounds of weed (as of […]

News By MRR Staff Posted on October 7, 2020 There have been shortages across the state of specific strains Arkansas medical marijuana dispensaries are experiencing a shortage of the flower form of the product and a spokesman for Alcoholic Beverage Control said the agency is looking into the supply issue. The number of medical marijuana patients in the state has surged past 80,000. The state has only four cultivators in operation, and dispensaries report having trouble getting some strains entirely. The supply of other products, such as tinctures, vape cartridges and edibles, is sufficient, dispensary owners say.  “As of now, […]

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PRESS RELEASE–ExtractionTek Solutions and Pinnacle Stainless, two Colorado-based innovators in cannabis extraction technology, equipment design and fabrication, are have announced they are merging operations, effective Jan. 1, 2021. The company will operate under the name ExtractionTek Stainless, Powered by Pinnacle. The merger brings together expertise in closed-loop hydrocarbon and ethanol extraction methodologies, and allows the companies to centralize all equipment design with in-house fabrication, all of which will facilitate business expansion. As a result of this merger, the company projects combined revenues of $45 million in 2021. Company leadership plans to maintain current staffing levels. “As the […]

A new law in California will provide safe harbor for banking institutions doing business with cannabis companies. It also makes it far easier to start this process—for both the bank and the business—than ever before. Essentially, the law states that financial services and banking institutions are not acting criminally when engaging with a licensed cannabis business. By virtue of the license, that business is operating legally within the state of California. This clears up a fundamental issue that persists in the age of federal prohibition. Read the full text of the bill below. In order to get the ball rolling […]

Just two weeks ago, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that a 2020 ballot initiative to legalize medical cannabis violates the single subject rule as outlined in the state constitution and could not go before voters this November. Advocates who put forward the measure, gathered the required signatures and received approval from the Nebraska secretary of state have announced they are already working on a constitutional amendment for voters to decide on in 2022. Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana filed new petition language with Secretary of State Robert Evnen Sept. 28 that the committee intends to qualify for the November 2022 ballot […]

In 1971, philosopher John Rawls came up with the “Veil of Ignorance.” The concept is pretty simple: You start with the idea that you know nothing of your circumstances at birth—wealth, gender, education, etc.—and then ask yourself if you would be ok with the current social contract in which you live. Let’s conduct this thought experiment for the current cannabis industry: Imagine you do not know anything about your current situation—capital, abilities, partners, etc. Would you sign up to make a go of it in today’s cannabis industry with its poorly implemented regulations, federal illegality, non-experts peddling their expertise, and […]