State regulators Thursday approved a rule change that will allow issuance of the remaining two medical marijuana dispensary licenses permitted under the Arkansas Constitution.
The rule change, which provides that the remaining licenses be issued to companies that previously applied for them and are next in line based on their scores, is set to go before the Arkansas Legislative Council in February. The licenses will likely be issued in March, Medical Marijuana Commission spokesman Scott Hardin said.
Arkansas voters approved the constitutional amendment legalizing cannabis for medical use in the state in 2016.
The panel initially issued 32 dispensary licenses spread evenly across eight geographic zones in January 2019 and has granted six more since then.
Then in July, the commission decided that it would issue the remaining two licenses. Members noted at the time that there were fewer dispensaries in the southwestern portion of the state relative to the number of patients in that region.
The two licenses will be in Zone 6, which covers Scott, Polk, Montgomery, Garland, Perry, Saline, Hot Spring and Grant counties; and Zone 8, which includes Howard, Sevier, Little River, Hempstead, Miller, Nevada, Lafayette, Columbia, Union, Ouachita, Calhoun, Clark and Dallas counties.
The Zone 6 license will be awarded to Green Remedies Group, which plans to open a dispensary in…
State regulators Thursday approved a rule change that will allow issuance of the remaining two medical marijuana dispensary licenses permitted under the Arkansas Constitution.
The rule change, which provides that the remaining licenses be issued to companies that previously applied for them and are next in line based on their scores, is set to go before the Arkansas Legislative Council in February. The licenses will likely be issued in March, Medical Marijuana Commission spokesman Scott Hardin said.
Arkansas voters approved the constitutional amendment legalizing cannabis for medical use in the state in 2016.
The panel initially issued 32 dispensary licenses spread evenly across eight geographic zones in January 2019 and has granted six more since then.
Then in July, the commission decided that it would issue the remaining two licenses. Members noted at the time that there were fewer dispensaries in the southwestern portion of the state relative to the number of patients in that region.
The two licenses will be in Zone 6, which covers Scott, Polk, Montgomery, Garland, Perry, Saline, Hot Spring and Grant counties; and Zone 8, which includes Howard, Sevier, Little River, Hempstead, Miller, Nevada, Lafayette, Columbia, Union, Ouachita, Calhoun, Clark and Dallas counties.
The Zone 6 license will be awarded to Green Remedies Group, which plans to open a dispensary in…
