The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission has decided to set license fee (and annual renewal) for cultivation facilities at $100,000, Benji Hardy reports. The decision was billed as a compromise, after commissioner Travis Story pushed for setting it at $185,000 and Carlos Ramon proposed $15,000.

That fee is in addition to the $15,000 application fee the commission previously set.

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The panel previously decided it would distribute licenses for five cultivation centers in the five geographic subdivisions drawn by the Department of Health.

Benji will have more later.

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