Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge rejected the name and popular title of a constitutional amendment that would authorize the cultivation, production, distribution, sale, possession and use of marijuana throughout the state.
Rutledge said "The Arkansas Cannabis Amendment" contains ambiguities in its text.
For example, the amendment provides that all persons "incarcerated or under supervision of the Arkansas Board of Correction and Community Punishment for nonviolent marijuana offenses shall be released," Rutledge said.
The Arkansas Board of Correction and Community Punishment is now called the Board of Corrections. It's unclear what would happen to people incarcerated by facilities not supervised or operated by the Board of Corrections, Rutledge said.
Among other issues, Rutledge said the measure, if approved, would require her to produce a "legal document" and send it to circuit court clerks ordering the destruction of civil records related to "nonviolent" marijuana offenses.
It's unclear how, under Arkansas law, they could be ordered to do that, Rutledge said.
Metro on 10/11/2015