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Justices OK ‘pot’ measure for state ballot

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By Sarah D. Wire

Posted: September 28, 2012 at 2:31 a.m.

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Jerry Cox, head of the Arkansas Family Council, holds a copy of a proposed ballot measure that, if successful, would legalize medical marijuana. Cox spoke Thursday to reporters at the state Capitol in Little Rock.

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a proposed initiated act to legalize the medical use of marijuana is sufficient to appear on Arkansas’ Nov. 6 ballot.

Medical-marijuana ballot challenger speaks after court ruling

Family Council President Jerry Cox of Little Rock, an executive director of the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values, speaks Thursday on the Arkansas Supreme Court's ruling that the proposed Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act ballot is sufficient. The coalition had challenged the ballot. (By Sarah D. Wire)
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