Signatures for Arkansas Medical Marijuana Initiative Submitted

Three medical marijuana proposals are working to get onto the Arkansas ballot this November. Officials must view each petition and each signature to ensure that the signatures are legitimate prior to passing the decision onto voters.  A previous attempt in 2012 failed by a mere 2-percent.

Arkansans for Compassionate Care organizer Melissa Fults said, “Currently, 25 states in the U.S. have medical cannabis. There are countless clinical and pre-clinical studies evidencing that cannabis is a safer, more effective alternative to medication such as pain pills. The patients of Arkansas deserve a safer alternative.”

A total of almost 68,000 validate signatures are required for the initiatives to be present on the November ballot, WKNO reports.

Fults continued saying, “For two years hundreds of volunteers, patients and their families have braved Arkansas weather collecting signatures for medical cannabis. We stand here today submitting over 117,000 signatures.”

Current language in Fults’ initiative includes that patients residing 20 miles or more from a dispensary may grow their own medical marijuana. The other two proposals do not allow for personal growing to take place. Robert Reed’s proposal is a state constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana use.