Arkansas requires medical cannabis dispensaries and cultivation facilities to maintain 1,500-foot buffers from K-12 schools, churches, and daycares. Little Rock applies these buffers in zoning review and may add modest local separation rules.
Under Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission rules implementing Amendment 98, no licensed dispensary or cultivation facility may locate within 1,500 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school, church, or licensed daycare. Distances are measured property line to property line. Little Rock's Planning and Development Department applies these buffers during conditional use and building-permit review. The city has discretion to require additional separation between dispensaries themselves under its zoning code, helping prevent clustering in commercial corridors. Existing schools or churches that move in next to a licensed dispensary do not retroactively force closure.
Failure to satisfy state buffer requirements is grounds for license denial, revocation, and city refusal to issue a certificate of occupancy.
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