Update from Melissa Fults with DPEG from today’s legislative committee meetings: – HB1298 – natural person language – passed committee – HB1371 – natural person language – passed committee – SB254 – dispensary no grow – passed committee with ‘may’ clause where MMC could allow up to 50 plants Next committee meeting to hear MMJ...

Representative Douglas House, normally an ally to the industry, promised a fellow lawmaker yesterday that he’d sponsor a bill to eliminate advertising for the medical marijuana industry. This is not good for Arkansas medical marijuana patients, the MMJ industry, or free speech. No other legal medicine manufacturers or pharmacies are banned from advertising their product....