This is a perfect example of why MMJ is no good, and it just needs to be completely decriminalized and descheduled. Monopolies and corporate control are in no way an enhancement to personal freedom. Read the article below and see if you agree with me or not. I’m still waiting to find out where they finally fall on this.
Fee to grow medical marijuana in Arkansas: $100,000 a year
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A state commission has decided that Arkansas residents hoping to grow medical marijuana will have to pay an annual fee of $100,000 to operate a cultivation facility.
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission set the fee amount on Tuesday, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2iB9UsP ) reported. The commission also decided that people who apply must have a $1 million bond or assets worth $1 million and be able to show $500,000 in cash liquidity. The requirements are in addition to a $15,000 application fee the commission approved last week.
The commission was created by the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment passed by voters in November. The panel must create rules by June to govern how Arkansas residents can apply for cultivation and dispensary licenses.
Two commissioners, Dr. Carlos Roman and Travis Story, noted that potential growers would not be able to secure bank loans if they run out of cash because medical marijuana is still illegal under federal law.
Roman, who proposed a $15,000 license fee, argued that the fees for would-be growers should be kept as low as possible to receive the maximum number of applications.
“It’s an expensive endeavor, so it’s not something that someone could just go in with $10,000 and start a cultivation facility. The cost is very high,” Roman said. “So we want to respect the price point on it, but I’m just trying to fight at every level to make it accessible to as many people … to make it open to as many Arkansans as possible.”
Truth Farmer 
Aug 08, 2017 @ 09:51:25
This is great a new income stream for the criminal psychopaths that call themselves “government”!
First the state of Missouri can criminalize a right, such as having children. Then it can come back and “legalize” having children, but charge $100,000 for a license to have children.
They could also do the same for say “marriage”. First criminalize it and then legalize it. i.e. charge an arm and a leg to exercise that right.
Bottom line is that there is exactly zero difference between what I just suggested, and what the criminals in the legislatures are doing nationwide. In a just world violating my rights by a government official should result in a charge of treason. In a just world just about every legislator in the country would be hanged from the neck until dead for their “long train of abuses usurpations.”
Aug 08, 2017 @ 09:56:58
And who is going to pay the $100,000 fee? How about the same people that are now paying the $2,000,000,000 (yes 2 billion dollar) fee that many of the cell phone companies paid the government for their airwave licenses. Americans are pretty stupid when it comes to economics.