Arkansas Medical Marijuana 2026: Cards, Dispensaries, Prices and Delivery

Overview

Arkansas legalized medical cannabis when voters approved Amendment 98 in November 2016, and the first legal sale in the state happened in Hot Springs on May 10, 2019. Three agencies split the work: the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, housed inside the Department of Finance and Administration, awards cultivation and dispensary licenses; the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division enforces the rules and registers the agents who work behind the counter; and the Department of Health runs the patient registry and issues the cards.

The retail footprint is capped by the amendment itself at forty dispensary licenses and eight cultivation licenses. The state's own fiscal 2025 report counted thirty-seven licensed dispensaries with thirty-six of them in operation, and the DFA counted thirty-six licensed through June 2026, down from thirty-seven a year earlier, with a Texarkana license still on the books whose location has closed. Patients bought $140.3 million worth of product in the first half of 2026, down 2.6 percent year over year, on an average purchase of $75.14. Active patient cards kept climbing anyway, reaching 119,074 in July 2026.

At the register the bill carries three layers of tax: the general state sales rate of 6.5 percent, a medical marijuana privilege charge of 4 percent, and whatever local rate the city and county set, which usually totals somewhere between 11 and 13 percent. Cards cost $50 through the Department of Health, run up to a year, and require a written certification from an Arkansas-licensed physician.

Two things changed the ground under this program recently. The Eighth Circuit cleared the way for Arkansas to enforce its intoxicating-hemp ban in June 2025, which pulled delta-8 gummies and hemp THC vapes off gas station shelves and pushed those buyers toward licensed dispensaries. Then in December 2025 the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that the General Assembly can amend a voter-approved constitutional amendment, which means the rules governing Amendment 98 can now be rewritten in the Capitol rather than at the ballot box.

Legal Snapshot

What People Actually Pay

The DFA puts the average Arkansas dispensary purchase at $75.14 through June 2026. Eighths generally run $25 to $45; sale-tier flower drops under $20 and top-shelf indoor pushes $50. Ounces appear between $90 and $180 depending on grade and promotion. Half-gram carts sit near $25 to $40, concentrate grams $20 to $50, gummy packs $15 to $30. Stacked state and local tax adds roughly eleven to thirteen percent unless the store quotes tax-included pricing, which a few do.

How Access & Delivery Work

Delivery in Arkansas is real but small. State rules let a licensed dispensary send its own registered agents to a qualifying patient or a designated caregiver; there are no third-party courier apps, no out-of-state services, and nothing left at a door unattended. The person who ordered has to be there with a card and a photo ID when the vehicle arrives.

In practice each store sets its own terms. The Greenery in Fort Smith runs deliveries on Friday and Saturday afternoons inside Sebastian County with a $100 minimum, a $15 fee, and cash only. The Jonesboro counter on Visions Avenue has run midweek routes out to Paragould and Brookland, though its operator no longer advertises the service. Plenty of counters skip delivery entirely and push online ordering with in-store pickup instead, which is why calling ahead beats assuming. Drive-through service is still off the table: HB 1889 would have authorized both drive-through windows and looser delivery rules in 2025, and Governor Sanders vetoed it.

Product Guides

Flower

Smokable flower is legal here and it is what most Arkansas patients buy, sold in eighths, quarters, halves and ounces that all draw down the same 2.5-ounce fourteen-day balance. Arkansas-grown material dominates the shelves because the amendment caps cultivation at eight licensed facilities.

Vapes

Cartridges, disposables and live-resin pens are stocked at every licensed dispensary and are the fastest-moving category after flower. Hemp-derived THC vapes sold outside the program are banned statewide under Act 629 and Act 934, so a licensed counter is the only lawful source.

Pre Rolls

Singles, infused rolls and multi-packs are standard, and their flower weight counts toward the fourteen-day limit like anything else. Pre-rolls are the usual entry point for new cardholders who do not want to buy a grinder yet.

Edibles

Gummies, chocolates, mints and beverages are widely available and clearly dose-labeled. Arkansas has no separate edible allotment; the product's flower-equivalent weight is what the state tracking system deducts from a patient's balance.

Concentrates

Wax, shatter, badder, live resin, rosin and cartridges are all sold, and several Arkansas cultivators compete hard in this category. Concentrate weight counts toward the same limit, so a heavy dab patient hits the ceiling faster than a flower patient.

Tinctures

Sublingual tinctures and oil syringes stay on the menu for patients who want measured dosing without smoke, and they show up most in the counters serving older patient populations around Hot Springs, Mountain Home and Hot Springs Village.

Topicals

Balms, lotions, transdermal patches and bath products are stocked for localized pain without much intoxication. They are the least-purchased category statewide and inventory tends to be thin outside the larger Pulaski County and Northwest Arkansas stores.

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