LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Voters might make conservative Arkansas the first Southern state to legalize medical marijuana, which could signal a cultural tipping point suggesting it's just matter of time before patients nationwide will be able to access the drug to treat certain maladies.
Medical marijuana is already legal in half of the states and voters will decide Tuesday whether to allow or expand it in four others, including two in the South, Arkansas and Florida. Like several other Southern states, Florida already allows certain patients to use a version of the drug that is low in THC, the main psychoactive component in marijuana.
Arkansas voters narrowly defeated a similar measure four years ago, and this year's campaign has led to a last-minute flurry of ads from opponents and supporters and a series of court challenges that disqualified one of the two proposed medical marijuana ballot measures.
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Arkansas Medical Marijuana Campaign Could Signal Tipping Point
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