After some pandemic-related delays, cannabis advocates in Arkansas are garnering signatures for a recreational marijuana amendment on the 2022 ballot. Arkansas’s News Service Emily Scott Reports.
Additionally, under the amendment, anyone who is incarcerated for a marijuana-related offense would be released from prison and have their record expunged. According to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union, Black people in the state were almost two-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people based on 2018 data. Melissa Fults of Arkansas NORML says she thinks that racial disparity is one of the main reasons why recreational cannabis should be legal.
Arkansans voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2016 through a ballot initiative with a 53 percent vote. There are currently an estimated 70,000 medical marijuana patients in the state.
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