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On November 8, 2016, Arkansas voters approved Issue 6, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, [9] to legalize the medical use of cannabis. [10] [11] A separate measure, the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act (Issue 7), [12] was disqualified from the ballot 12 days before the election by the Arkansas Supreme Court. [13] [14]
Legalizing marijuana would create tens of thousands of jobs that require no subsidy, no kind of guidance other than to rewrite the law and allow this business to flourish in Pennsylvania." [27] Also speaking at the press conference in support of legalization was State Senator Sharif Street. [28]
The sponsor of the act, Arkansans for Compassionate Care, submitted 117,469 petition signatures to the state authorities for verification in June 2016. [5] It was certified for the ballot on July 7. [6] The act had a provision to collect sales tax and apportion some of the revenue to subsidize medical cannabis for low-income patients. [7]
The information state police provide the public through its website, psp.pa.gov, reports “According to the U.S. DOJ (Department of Justice), possession of a valid Medical Marijuana Card and/or ...
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The legislation advancing in the Senate would make sweeping changes to the state’s 7-year-old medical marijuana program.
The first state to effectively legalize medical cannabis was California in 1996, when voters approved Proposition 215 by a 56–44 margin. Several states followed with successful ballot initiatives in 1998, and in 2000 Hawaii became the first to legalize through an act of state legislature. [3]
In 2016, Pennsylvania joined several other states in enacting legislation legalizing the use or possession of medical marijuana within its borders. Inherent in adopting this legislation is the ...