Pubdate: Tue, 14 Jan 2014
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Copyright: 2014 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
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'POT' AMENDMENT REJECTED YET AGAIN

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on Monday rejected a proposed
constitutional amendment to repeal all laws limiting the production,
distribution, sale and use of cannabis.

McDaniel wrote in a letter to the proposal's author, Marjorie LeClair
of Shirley, that he could not certify the popular name and ballot
title of the measure because of ambiguities in the amendment's text.

LeClair's proposals have been rejected by the attorney general's
office on at least seven other occasions.

The proposed constitutional amendment would repeal all laws against
the drug and prevent the Legislature from enacting any more in the
future.

The proposal contains a reference to a law that would control taxation
of the drug, but the law does not exist on the state's books, McDaniel
wrote.

"I advised you that your prior submission, which contains a provision
identical to the one here at issue, apparently 'refers by the wrong
name to the chapter of the Code known as the "Arkansas Gross Receipts
Act [Not 'Laws'] of 1941.'" Unaccountably, in resubmitting your
proposal, you have ignored altogether my correction of your apparent
error," McDaniel wrote.

LeClair did not immediately return a phone message Monday afternoon.
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