Three counties account for one-third of state’s medical marijuana cardholders

Arkansas’s three most-populous counties are house to a 3rd of the state’s medical marijuana cardholders, down barely from the earlier yr, based on knowledge revealed by the state Division of Well being. 

The cardholder knowledge, published by the Department of Health late last year, exhibits males maintain the vast majority of the playing cards and that post-traumatic stress dysfunction is the commonest qualifying situation. 

The cardholder knowledge exhibits that Pulaski, Benton and Washington Counties contained 28,914 of the state’s 85,192 cardholders on the finish of the final fiscal yr, which ended on June 30, 2022. Pulaski County had probably the most cardholders with 10,843.

The three counties accounted for 36% of the state’s cardholders within the earlier fiscal yr with Benton County on prime with 11,519.

Calhoun County in south central Arkansas had the fewest variety of cardholders with 53. 

The overall variety of cardholders was all the way down to 85,192 on the finish of the final fiscal yr, about an 8% drop from the earlier yr. 

Invoice Paschall, government director of the Arkansas Hashish Trade Affiliation, ascribed the decline to the effort and price of renewing affected person playing cards and the anticipation final yr of Arkansas legalizing leisure marijuana.

The Arkansas Grownup Use Hashish Modification would have legalized marijuana use for adults 21 and older however failed on the poll field in November 56.25% to 43.75%.

The state Division of Well being reported 92,837 cardholders as of final week, exhibiting that the quantity has climbed again above the quantity within the 2021 report. 

In different knowledge, the state reported 53% of the cardholders are male and about 47% are feminine. That was a change from the prior yr when girls accounted for 51.8% of the cardholders. 

The age group knowledge was largely unchanged from the earlier fiscal yr. Folks aged 25 to 44 accounted for 41.6% of cardholders and folks 45 to 64 years previous accounted for 37.1% of the playing cards. 

The info additionally confirmed that 77.5% of the cardholders are white and eight% are Black, though 13.1% of cardholder race knowledge was unknown or the candidates didn’t reply. Arkansas’s inhabitants was 78.6% white and 15.7% through the 2020 U.S. Census

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