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Arkansas pauses marijuana dispensary applications' review
Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:53 pm
Quality thread #93
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP/KATV) -- Arkansas officials have halted their evaluation of applications to sell medical marijuana after a judge struck down the state's licensing process for businesses that want to grow the drug.
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A spokesman for the Department of Finance and Administration on Wednesday said the Medical Marijuana Commission's review of dispensary applications has been put on hold in response to last month's ruling regarding cultivation facilities. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen ruled the state's licensing process for the cultivation facilities violated a 2016 voter-approved amendment legalizing medical marijuana.
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Posted on 4/11/18 at 7:34 pm to pioneerbasketball
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Judge Wendell Griffen
Shocker!
Posted on 4/13/18 at 12:20 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
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Maytheporkbewithyou
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Judge Wendell Griffen
Shocker!
Don't know much about him. Is he stuck in old beliefs or just a moron?
Posted on 4/14/18 at 7:22 am to boogiewoogie1978
He’s a racist judge
Posted on 4/14/18 at 11:47 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Don't know much about him. Is he stuck in old beliefs or just a moron?
I'm pretty sure he's saying thr current licensing process is not in accordance with the bill that created the licensing. Probably doesn't have to do with the fact that it's extremly unnecessarily expensive to start one, but I hope it is.It is illogically expensive to start up which gauranteed the big wigs here in Arkansas got the money from the medical marijuana business. GOBN making damn sure they're the ones controlling the dispensaries, and it shouldn't be allowed to happen.
Posted on 4/14/18 at 3:00 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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Don't know much about him. Is he stuck in old beliefs or just a moron
Do a Google search on him. He seems to always be caught up in grandstanding. He's also the same judge that took part in the anti death penalty demonstration and then blocked the state from using the drugs in some executions. He was censured and has been disqualified from hearing any other cases that involve the death penalty. He's had a long history if being an activist judge.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 12:27 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
Read his racist blogs
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:23 am to Pigfeet
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:33 am to Pigfeet
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Griffen found the commission's scoring of cultivations applications "null and void" on March 21. Primarily citing commissioners with conflicts of interest, he issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the commission from awarding licenses to the top-five applications.
Interesting tidbit of info I found on his ruling.
Didn't find any clarification but it sounds like he was trying to put a stop to some sort of kickbacks.
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Couch said the applications could be sent out for grading from an independent consultant; the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division staff could verify that each application complies with the commission's rules; or the commission could develop a recusal process if a commissioner has any perceived conflict of interest with an applicant.
This is probably best.
This post was edited on 4/18/18 at 11:34 am
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