Post by Logan on Jun 21, 2016 19:34:02 GMT -6
Supporters of one of three marijuana-legalization proposals submitted more than 117,000 signatures Monday to Secretary of State Mark Martin, pleading that their efforts to legalize the drug will fail if multiple measures make the November ballot.
Immediately afterwards at the State Capitol, groups opposed to recreational and medical marijuana painted all three proposals as a "backdoor" for healthy people to smoke "pot."
Arkansans for Compassionate Care have drafted one of two proposals related to medical marijuana. The group's Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act would set up 38 no-profit dispensaries across the state regulated by the Department of Health, according to its website.
A "hardship" provision in the law would allow people living in rural areas far from the proposed dispensaries to grow up to five plants.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jun/20/medical-marijuana-backer-present-signatures-state-/?f=news-politics
Immediately afterwards at the State Capitol, groups opposed to recreational and medical marijuana painted all three proposals as a "backdoor" for healthy people to smoke "pot."
Arkansans for Compassionate Care have drafted one of two proposals related to medical marijuana. The group's Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act would set up 38 no-profit dispensaries across the state regulated by the Department of Health, according to its website.
A "hardship" provision in the law would allow people living in rural areas far from the proposed dispensaries to grow up to five plants.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jun/20/medical-marijuana-backer-present-signatures-state-/?f=news-politics