A ballot initiative that would significantly expand Arkansas’ medical marijuana program is still alive after the state’s Supreme Court ordered a key government official to resume counting roughly 18,000 signatures that he allegedly declined to count.
Wednesday’s ruling by the high court comes two days after Secretary of State John Thurston announced that Arkansans for Patient Access had submitted only 88,040 valid signatures – 2,664 signatures shy of the 90,704 required.
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The following day, the group filed a lawsuit challenging Thurston’s decision and asking the Supreme Court to order Thurston to certify the MMJ initiative for the November ballot.
Thurston said some of the signatures obtained had to be disqualified because they were collected by paid canvassers and therefore could not be
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