LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — On Tuesday, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin approved the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2024, making the ballot measure available to collect signatures.
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2024 would allow more healthcare professionals to prescribe the drug and vastly expand the conditions that marijuana would be allowed to treat.
The measure would also recognize medical marijuana patients from other states and increase the expiration date of patients' cards from one year to three years.
Also in the proposal is a trigger law that would make marijuana recreational if the federal government removes the drug from the controlled substances list or if the federal crime of marijuana possession goes away.
Additionally, it would amend Article 5 of the state constitution to prevent the legislature from making changes to constitutional amendments unless the people of Arkansas vote on it.
Griffin rejected the first submission of the then-called Arkansas Medical Cannabis Amendment of 2024 in January due to what he called ambiguities and "misleading" language.
The group will now have until July 5 to collect 90,704 signatures from registered voters to get on the November ballot.