A Google Street View image of Green Springs Medical Dispensary in Hot Springs (© Google)
The Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division on Thursday announced it had revoked the medical marijuana dispensary license for Green Springs Medical Dispensary in Hot Springs after the business racked up more than 50 regulatory violations in recent years.
It’s the first dispensary license to be revoked since the medical cannabis industry launched in Arkansas in 2019.
ABC cited violations including failure to maintain clean and sanitary processing areas; failure to maintain biannual inventory information; failure to certify scales; failure to maintain accurate personnel records; failure to maintain video surveillance; improper signage, and lack of commercial grade locks.
Most recently, Green Springs allegedly sold 1,800 expired products. The ABC said its enforcement agents conducted an undercover purchase of expired products in October following a verbal warning about the products. Altogether, the violations showed a “pattern of noncompliance,” said Trent Minner, head of the Department of Finance and Administration’s Regulatory Division, which includes ABC.
“A license to operate in the medical marijuana industry in Arkansas is a privilege not to be taken lightly,” he said. “When state law is consistently disregarded, ABC has a
