Hours after the order was issued, the state Medical Marijuana Commission postponed the hearing it had scheduled Wednesday to formally award the licenses. Arkansas voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 legalizing medical marijuana for patients with certain conditions. The lawsuit contends that the state “caused a complete distrust in the newly implemented medical marijuana industry, approved by Arkansas voters, to serve the medicinal needs of qualifying Arkansans “Arkansas is the first state in the South to legalize medical marijuana. Arkansas has approved 4,410 applications for patients to use medical marijuana, and will issue registry cards about a month before the drug is expected to be available legally. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order preventing the state from issuing permits to five companies that had qualified to grow marijuana.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state from awarding its first licenses for companies to grow medical marijuana in response to complaints about the state’s process for reviewing applications for the facilities.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order preventing the state from issuing permits to five companies that had qualified to grow marijuana. Hours after the order was issued, the state Medical Marijuana Commission postponed the hearing it had scheduled Wednesday to formally award the licenses.
Arkansas voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016...
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