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Arkansas Attorney General Rejects 2014 Medical Marijuana Proposal

July 23rd

LITTLE ROCK, AR — The Arkansas Attorney General has rejected the language of a proposed 2014 ballot initiative, The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, that would legalize the medical use of marijuana.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel rejected the wording Monday for “confusing and ambiguous points” contained within the language of the proposal.

In his decision, McDaniel’s says the proposed initiative isn’t clear enough about whether patients could grow their own marijuana at home:

Proposed section 20-65-103(a) would allow a qualifying patient to engage in the “medical use” of marijuana, subject to a possession limit. Proposed section 20-65-102(8) would define “medical use” to include the “manufacture” and “preparation” of marijuana. While one may not normally consider the growing of a plant to be its “manufacture,” it is difficult to see what other meaning the word may have in this context, particularly given that it must be presumed to mean something other than “preparation,” else that word would be surplusage. Your proposed ballot title implies that a qualifying patient’s only source of marijuana will be a nonprofit dispensary. I accordingly assume that you intend for at-home growing by patients to be disallowed, but the proposal’s language does not clearly achieve that result. The proposal’s position on this issue is undoubtedly a significant matter for a voter’s consideration. But without clarifica. . . . . READ MORE

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