Hours after Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged law enforcement officials Wednesday to prepare for the debate on the legalization of recreational marijuana, as it would likely be on the Nov. 8 election ballot, the Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the amendment.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Wednesday afternoon that the board said the measure “did not clearly specify whether there would be a certain THC limit on edibles.”
“I just glanced at the actual wording of the initiative and the marijuana initiative, of course, is not medical marijuana, which we have, but is basically recreational use of marijuana,” Hutchinson said, while speaking at the Arkansas Municipal Police Association Convention at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hot Springs.
“It will allow for 100 new licenses to be issued for either growing or dispensing marijuana. Eight of those licenses will be for the cultivation of marijuana in unlimited quantities. In other words, the grow quantities will not be limited in eight of those,” he said.
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According to the secretary of state’s office, the Responsible Growth Arkansas committee turned in the required number of valid signatures of registered voters to qualify its proposed constitutional amendment, and Hutchinson noted Wednesday it had been certified, giving, what many thought would be, the go-ahead…
