Hawaii: Hundreds attend seminar on opening medical marijuana dispensaries

Medical marijuana is a multibillion dollar industry and hundreds of hungry entrepreneurs are ready to make it a reality in Hawaii.

It’s up to Gov. Ige to sign it into law, but in the meantime, hundreds attended a seminar on Oahu Saturday to learn about the risks and necessary steps needed to open a medical marijuana dispensary.

If medical marijuana becomes legal, Hawaii as a whole will have 16 dispensaries: six on Oahu, four on Maui, four on Hawaii Island and two on Kauai.

To open a dispensary, you must be a legal resident of Hawaii for at least five years, and an applicant must also have at least over $1 million in the bank.

Hundreds of interested entrepreneurs want it, but only eight will get a dispensary license. Each license would allow for two retail locations and two grow sites.

According to Myles Breiner, president of the Hawaii Association...

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