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US (AR): Governor to use funds from MMJ for school lunches

The Republican governor of Arkansas has announced a new plan to use tax revenue from medical marijuana sales to provide public school students in the state with free breakfast and lunch.

During her State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) said her administration intends to "use medical marijuana money" to support both a state food benefit program for low-income residents as well as a free breakfast and lunch programs to make them "sustainable for years to come."

"We will also use those funds to make school breakfast in Arkansas completely free for any student that chooses to participate," she said.

This proposal is especially notable considering that Sanders, a former press secretary under the first Trump administration, has historically resisted cannabis policy reform.

Read more at Marijuana Moment

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