Arkansas conservative group seeks to block medical pot vote

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – A conservative Arkansas group seeking to prevent the state from becoming the first in the U.S. South to allow medical marijuana filed a lawsuit on Friday to knock a pot-as-medicine proposal off the November election ballot. The lawsuit filed in the state Supreme Court by the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values argues the ballot’s title, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, is misleading and the act itself hard to understand at 8,000 words long. …