Arkansas has passed medical marijuana, returns show. The
result is a good-luck win for reform, even after an internecine fight between
reform advocats put two measures on the ballot.
Once an impenetrable fortress of prohibition, the South is
slowly allowing medical marijuana a place at its tailgate. (Which is nice,
considering how many SEC football players use the stuff with no seeming ill
effect, aside from the hit to their draft position and draconian suspensions
when busted.)
And nowhere is friendlier than Arkansas, where a medical
marijuana measure in 2012 lost by a relatively close 12 percentage points, 44
percent for to 56 percent against.
This year, there were two medical marijuana measures on the
ballot—Issue 6 and Issue 7. The latter of which would have allowed patients to
grow their own cannabis, but was removed late last month by the state Supreme
Court. That hardly matters now that Arkansas is the new center of medical
marijuana in the greater South, with Issue 6 winning over voters.
This makes Arkansas the 28th state to allow medical
marijuana, including tonight’s winners Florida and North Dakota,officially
putting the U.S. past the halfway mark—at least in the number of states. More
than half the country’s residents had cannabis access a while ago.
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