CCC - Medical Marijuana Initiative In Arkansas Gathers More Than Enough Signatures To Place It On Nov Ballot | Benzinga
Efforts to expand medical marijuana access in Arkansas seem to be paying off.
Cannabis activists in Arkansas managed to submit more than 111,000 petition signatures by the July 5 deadline to place the initiative on the November 2024 ballot.
The group, Arkansans for Patient Access (APA), said on Friday that they had collected more than enough for the measure to qualify – well above 90,704 signature threshold. The policy change would allow more healthcare professionals, including medical and osteopathic doctors, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants and pharmacists to prescribe marijuana to patients, reported 5 News Online.
The initiative also proposes adding additional medical conditions for which medical cannabis can be prescribed. More precisely, any condition that a “health care practitioner considers debilitating to a patient that might be alleviated by ...