West Little Rock’s first medical marijuana dispensary is scheduled to open on November 1 after the owners received approval from the state Medical Marijuana Commission Tuesday night.
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The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star team
The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, the 27th team the Times has honored, includes quiz bowl savants, budding novelists, future engineers and doctors and championship athletes. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers.
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Processors entering Arkansas medical marijuana market
They aim to create diverse product offerings.
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Marijuana commission shouldn’t have granted cultivator ownership change, lawsuit argues
The state Medical Marijuana Commission erred when it allowed a Newport cultivator to change ownership and move the facility to Pine Bluff, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by Little Rock attorney David Couch.
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Future of the former Majestic Hotel property in Hot Springs still cloudy
After the once-famous hotel was destroyed by fire seven years ago, the city of Hot Springs selected developers in 2020 to construct a large-scale, high-end resort hotel on the north end of the city’s historic Bathhouse Row where the Majestic once stood. The development would include a spa, dining, retail and public space as well as access to the city’s thermal waters, according to Hot Springs Deputy City Manager Lance Spicer. Despite these grand plans, the site shows no signs of any construction activity.
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Medical marijuana thrives but possession arrests continue by the thousands
Though the number of recorded marijuana offenses in Arkansas declined modestly from 2018 to 2019, arrests remain far higher than they were a decade ago. A bill in the state legislature aims to change that.
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A survey of Arkansas medical marijuana dispensaries’ compassionate care plans
Tammy Calder is never sure if she’s going to be able to get out of bed on time in the morning. Degenerative disc disease, severe arthritis and fibromyalgia leave her in constant pain and she hasn’t been able to work in more than eight years. Calder, who lives in Huntsville (Madison County) on a limited income, uses medical marijuana to help with her medical conditions. Thanks to discounts called compassionate care plans, she can afford it.
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Long before Bill Clinton, another future president called Arkansas home
As a young Army officer, president-to-be Zachary Taylor spent a couple of years at Arkansas’s Fort Smith. Apparently he didn’t have a very good time there.
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Medical marijuana commission declares dispensary application process expired, leaving two licenses unawarded
The state medical marijuana commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to expire dispensary applications effective Jan. 9, leaving two of the state’s 40 licenses unawarded.