{"id":15494,"date":"2023-07-13T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=15494"},"modified":"2023-07-13T06:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T11:46:27","slug":"medical-marijuana-sales-in-arkansas-could-set-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=15494","title":{"rendered":"Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas could set new record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) \u2014 Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas are on track to set a new record this year, state officials said.<br>From January through June, patients spent $141 million to buy a little more than 29,000 pounds of marijuana, according to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration.<br>That\u2019s up from $134 million in the first six months of 2022.<br>If the upswing continues, sales will pass $280 million in 2023. Arkansas\u2019 previous high for medical marijuana sales was $276 million last year.<br>The state\u2019s medical marijuana industry has \u201cflourished\u201d since its inception, said Scott Hardin, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration.<br>Arkansas voters in 2016 approved a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana. The first dispensary in the state opened in 2019. Medical marijuana sales have brought in a total of $105 million in tax revenue to the state.<br>Voters last year&nbsp;rejected a constitutional amendment&nbsp;that would have legalized recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/marijuana-sales-tax-record-arkansas-4feb82bb4e4326961f8bae3158ef2c8f\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) \u2014 Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas are on track to set a new record this year, state officials said.From January through June, patients spent $141 million to buy a little more than 29,000 pounds of marijuana, according to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration.That\u2019s up from $134 million in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2420,9792,3669,9793,9794,1465],"class_list":["post-15494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-arkansas","tag-executive-department","tag-finance","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-new-record","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15496,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions\/15496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}