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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas regulators have stopped reviewing applications from businesses that want to sell medical marijuana, weeks after a judge struck down the state's licensing process for growing the drug.

A spokesman for the Department of Finance and Administration said Wednesday the Medical Marijuana Commission's review of dispensary applications was halted in response to a judge preventing Arkansas from licensing businesses to grow medical marijuana. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen last month ruled that the state's licensing process for the cultivation facilities vi...