Arkansas Attorney General Rejects Marijuana Amendment

[Robert Celt]

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana in Arkansas.

The proposal by Mary Berry of Summit seeks to legalize the cultivation, production, sale, possession and use of the cannabis plant and all products produced by the cannabis plant including marijuana.

Rutledge said in her rejection Tuesday that the ballot title is ambiguous. She writes that without clarifications on several structural issues and issues of intent, she cannot suggest any specific changes to make the proposed amendment acceptable for the ballot.

This is the fourth time the Attorney General has rejected the proposal in the last three months citing issues of ambiguities.

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[Radogast]

This is the recreational cannabis ammendment in Arkansas.

The "Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act" is certified to be on the balllot.


The wording problems are minor according to a website which will not be named.

The "Arkansas Cannabis Amendment" will have to be resubmitted, Rutledge said.

"Any person eighteen (18) years of age and older" was one of the phrases cited by Rutledge as problematic. A person can't be both 18 and older. "And" should have been "or."

And yet there is no rational way to misinterpret the meaning... so seems trivial to me

Marry Berry, a resident of Summit, Arkansas and the author of the amendment, wants full legalization of the plant, genus cannabis. From the seed to the manufacturing to the sale, "all products derived from the cannabis plant" would no longer be criminal. However, even that phrase didn't pass. Rutledge noted its ambiguity and said such products could also include other ingredients, potentially creating a loophole in other laws.

Hardly likely to be an issue in court. I can't see "My Oxycodone was in a baggie with cannabis" as an efffective defense in court.

"State laws as it pertains to marijuana" and "number of license" were other cited grammatical errors, which Rutledge said incorrectly mixed singular and plural nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

Again, incorrect grammar but no rational way to misinterpret the meaning.

-- These examples look grammatically flawed, but are hardly ambiguous. And it all doesn't matter since recreational marijuana does not seem to have enough support in Arkansas this year.