The state medical marijuana industry directly employs more than 3,000 people, according to data and estimates from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division.
The ABC has issued 3,229 Registry Identification Cards, commonly known as RIC cards, that allow employees and owners access to the state’s dispensaries, cultivation facilities and processing facilities. The figures include some duplication, but ABC spokesman Scott Hardin estimated duplicate cards account for less than 5% of the total.
Duplication would occur, for instance, if an owner has a stake in more than one cannabis business or if a security guard worked at more than one facility, Hardin said. Despite that wrinkle, Hardin said the figures, which were compiled in mid-January, represent a “good snapshot” of the industry’s direct employment.
Good Day Farm Cultivation in Pine Bluff has the most active cards of any cannabis business in the state with 366. BOLD Team of Cotton Plant has the next-highest number at 211.
Suite 443, the Hot Springs dispensary that has been the state’s top-seller in recent months, is the top dispensary with 176 active cards. The Source dispensary in Rogers is next with 112 cards.
In addition to its cultivation facility, Good Day Farm operates six dispensaries across the state, which collectively account for 334 cards. Its West Little Rock dispensary alone has 105.
New Day Laboratories, the processing arm of Garland County cultivator Leafology, has 29 cards. (Cultivators are allowed to process cannabis without holding a separate processing license, but Leafology’s processing facility is in a separate building from its grow operations, requiring a processing permit.) High Speed Extracts of Garland County was the next-highest processor with 23 active cards.
In total, the state’s 38 dispensaries have 1,958 active cards, the state’s eight cultivators have 1,170 and the state’s seven active processors have 101 cards.
Here’s the full list:
DISPENSARIES
The Hill Dispensary – 82 active cards
Purspirit Cannabis Co. – 64 active cards
The Source – 112 active cards
The Releaf Center – 111 active cards
Osage Creek Dispensary, LLC – 25 active cards
Fiddler’s Green Medical Marijuana Dispensary – 25 active cards
Plant Family Therapeutics – 21 active cards
Arkansas Natural Products – 44 active cards
Enlightened Cannabis Heber Springs – 47 active cards
Spring River Dispensary – 38 active cards
Greenlight West Memphis – 36 active cards
Delta Cannabis Co. – 56 active cards
Body and Mind (BAM) – 32 active cards
NEA Full Spectrum – 42 active cards
CROP – 33 active cards
The Greenery – 29 active cards
Enlightened Cannabis Morrilton – 36 active cards
420 Dispensary – 27 active cards
Enlightened Cannabis Clarksville – 36 active cards
Good Day Farm Van Buren – 42 active cards
Harvest Cannabis Dispensary – 59 active cards
Greenlight Dispensary Little Rock – 68 active cards
Berner’s by Good Day Farm – 105 active cards
Natural Relief Dispensary – 62 active cards
Good Day Farm Cantrell – 46 active cards
Suite 443 – 176 active cards
Green Springs Medical – 30 active cards
Good Day Farm Hensley – 55 active cards
Custom Cannabis – 43 active cards
High Bank Cannabis Co. – 110 active cards
Greenlight Helena – 33 active cards
Hash & Co. – 22 active cards
Good Day Farm Monticello – 40 active cards
The Treatment Dispensary – 39 active cards
Zen Leaf – 29 active cards
Superfarm – 35 active cards
Good Day Farm Texarkana – 46 active cards
Enlightened Arkadelphia – 22 active cards
CULTIVATORS
Revolution – 80 active cards
BOLD Team – 211 active cards
River Valley Relief – 71 active card
Leafology – 83 active cards
Osage Creek Cultivation – 141 cards
Natural State Medicinals – 136 active cards
Carpenter Medical Group – 82 active cards
Good Day Farm – 366 active cards
PROCESSORS
Shake Extractions – 7 active cards
New Day Laboratories – 29 active cards
Dark Horse Medicinals – 21 active cards
Pure Pharma Labs – 10 active cards
Mink and Kimball Extracts -5 active cards
High Speed Extracts – 23 active cards
M&M Cannabis Ventures 6 active cards
Happy Turtle Processing – 0 active cards
Morph Cannabis Co. – 0 active cards
Morph and Happy Turtle have not begun operations, so they do not have any RIC cards.