Court takes Arkansas medical cannabis expansion out of voters’ hands

A voter initiative that would have expanded medical cannabis access in Arkansas has been disallowed by the state’s Supreme Court, which declared that a proposed constitutional amendment is “plainly misleading.”

The Monday ruling came roughly two weeks before Election Day and, thus, was too late to remove Arkansans for Patient Access’ measure from voters’ ballots.

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Instead, the high court ordered elections officials not to count any votes cast for the initiative.

‘Did not fully inform voters’

According to the majority opinion in the 4-3 ruling, the justices ruled that the measure’s authors “did not fully inform voters” that state lawmakers would no longer have the power to amend the 2016 law that legalized MMJ in the state.

The news is a blow to

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