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Moving Medical Marijuana

It remains to be seen who and how Arkansas will transport
the medical marijuana business around the state

By Steve Brawner

Contributing Writer

Sometime next year, Arkansans
with a qualifying medical condition will
be eligible to use marijuana, and some-
one will have to transport the plants
from the facilities where they’re culti-
vated to the dispensaries where they are
sold.
If Arkansas’ experiences are like
other states, it probably won’t be trans-
ported by members of the Arkansas
Trucking Association.
The directors of trucking associa-
tions in Arizona, which legalized medi-
cal marijuana in 2010, and Michigan,
which did it in 2008, said that, to their
knowledge, none of their member firms
are involved in the business. The same
was true of Colorado, where marijuana
is legal not only for medical purposes
but also recreationally.
“I don’t know who’s transporting it.
None of our companies certainly are,”
said Tony Bradley, president and CEO
of the Arizona Trucking Association. He
said he suspected the drugs were being
transported by marijuana company
employees who do not hold commercial
driver’s licenses.
Abigail Potter, American Trucking
Associations manager of safety and “I DON’T KNOW WHO’S TRANSPORTING IT. NONE OF
occupational health policy, said she OUR COMPANIES CERTAINLY ARE.”
would be surprised if any major carriers
or members of the American Trucking —TONY BRADLEY, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE ARIZONA
Associations are involved in the mari-
juana trade. No carriers have asked her TRUCKING ASSOCIATION
about it.
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