Medical Cannabis

Dark Horse Cannabis recently relocated to northwest Arkansas. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis spoke with a representative from the company and the state to discover the significance of this event.

A blooming new hemp industry in Arkansas that grows raw cannabidiol-rich flowers to supply the CBD market is withering. We visit a state-licensed Ozarks hemp farm, one of the few still operating in Arkansas to learn why.

A significant portion of tax revenue collected from medical marijuana sales in Arkansas is granted each year to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute in Little Rock. The tax funding is being spent on facilities expansion, research and development, and hiring new key staff in a quest to be certified as a National Cancer Institute — the first in Arkansas.

The third annual Arkansas Medical Marijuana and CBD Wellness Expo was staged over the weekend at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale. Friday was an industry event for owners and operators of cannabis dispensaries, cultivation and processing facilities, legal and security firms, medical clinics and political interest groups. Saturday was open to the general public.

The Arkansas Supreme Court is allowing a voter initiated question to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use to appear on the November ballot – conditionally. The measure is sponsored Responsible Growth Arkansas.

Co-owner and expert staff at River Valley Relief provide a rare inside tour of their new medical cannabis cultivation facility — one of eight licensed in…

Despite nearly 80,000 registered medical marijuana users in Arkansas, little is known about how they are consuming the packaged drug and to what effect.…

When hemp, the non-intoxicating cousin of marijuana, was legalized by USDA several years ago, industrial hemp farming flowered in northwest Arkansas,…

Medical marijuana registry cards are typically good for a year, but the Arkansas Department of Health suspended expiration dates earlier this year due to…