Hawaii to start licensing medical marijuana dispensaries
Fifteen years after Hawaii legalized medical marijuana, the state plans to begin licensing pot dispensaries.
Until now, Hawaii’s 13,000 qualified patients had to grow their own marijuana or buy it on the black market.
Gov. David Ige signed the measure Tuesday, along with an accompanying bill that bans discrimination against medical marijuana patients. Both laws went into effect Wednesday, but it will take months for the state to draft rules to implement the licensing law.
“The bill sets a timeline,” Ige in a statement. “We will make a good-faith effort to create a fair process that will help the people most in need.”
The state’s Department of Health will develop administrative rules, including licensing application criteria and regulations, for a medical marijuana dispensary system. Applications will be accepted beginning early next year.
Hawaii will license eight dispensaries, which can begin selling medical marijuana to registered patients by November 2016,...
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