Status
Operational
Law Signed:
2016
QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
- ALS
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Cachexia or wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Chronic or debilitating disease
- Crohn’s disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C
- HIV/AIDS
- Intractable pain
- Multiple sclerosis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- PTSD
- Seizures
- Severe arthritis
- Severe nausea
- Severe and persistent muscle spasms
- Tourette’s syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis
- Any medical condition or its treatment approved by the Department of Health
PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS
Patients who possess a physician’s recommendation may legally possess and obtain medical cannabis provided by state licensed dispensaries. Patients under the age of 21 are not permitted to consume herbal forms of cannabis. Inhaling herbal cannabis is not permitted by adults in the presence of a pregnant woman or a child age 14 or under. Dispensaries may not provide cannabis-infused food or drink products with more than 10mg of THC. They may not provide cannabis-infused edible products that are “modeled after non-cannabis products primarily consumed by and marketed to children.”
HOME CULTIVATION
No
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES
Under the law, regulators will license up to 32 dispensary providers and up to five marijuana cultivators.
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES OPERATIONAL
Yes
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS
- 92,837
- Source: Arkansas Department of Health, as of March 2023
EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS FOR QUALIFYING PATIENTS
- Yes
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