Arkansas: Ballot Initiatives: No for Medical Marijuana, Yes for Expanded Alcohol, Minimum Wage Hike

Tue, Jul 8 2014 — Source: Arkansas Business

A group pushing for legalizing medical marijuana in Arkansas says it won’t have enough signatures to put its proposal before voters this fall.

Arkansans for Compassionate Care said Monday it wouldn’t turn in signatures to place its proposed initiated act on the November ballot. Monday is the deadline for ballot measure campaigns to submit petitions.

Meanwhile, supporters of measures to expand alcohol sales in Arkansas and raise the state’s minimum wage submitted enough signatures to be placed on the November ballot, pending Secretary of State confirmation.

Melissa Fults, campaign director for Arkansans for Compassionate Care, said it had collected roughly between 51,000 and 52,000 signatures, but a few thousand had to be thrown out because they weren’t valid. They needed at least 62,507 signatures from registered voters.

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