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Rep. Gabbard joins effort to allow research of using marijuana for pain management

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) and a bipartisan coalition of 20 Members of Congress called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider medical marijuana as a pain management alternative to opioids. In a letter to Acting Secretary of HHS Eric D. Hargan, the lawmakers pushed for research on the use, uptake, and […]

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Gov. David Ige and state Financial Institutions Commissioner Iris Ikeda announced a “banking solution” that allows Hawai‘i’s medical cannabis dispensaries to access financial services and use a cashless payment system.
 
The solution makes Hawai‘i the first in the nation to have a cashless dispensary system.

Hawai‘i unveils first cashless payment system for medical cannabis

Gov. David Ige and state Financial Institutions Commissioner Iris Ikeda announced a “banking solution” that allows Hawai‘i’s medical cannabis dispensaries to access financial services and use a cashless payment system. The solution makes Hawai‘i the first in the nation to have a cashless dispensary system.

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Kona Judiciary Complex, medical marijuana dispensaries among session accomplishments

House adjourns 2015 regular session

Kona Judiciary Complex, medical marijuana dispensaries among session accomplishments

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Legislature 2015: House update (Feb. 17-March 10)

MEDIA RELEASE As the Thursday crossover deadline approaches, the House passed bills: modifying the state’s excise tax surcharge for rail, authorizing the creation of medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii, requiring health insurers with greater than 20 percent of the state’s small group insurance market to offer qualified health plans under the Hawaii Health Connector, and […]

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Rep. Belatti advocates benefits of medical marijuana dispensaries with story of stricken child

Jari Sugano was desperate to find relief for her active five-year-old daughter, Maile Jen Hope Kaneshiro, who suffers from Dravet syndrome, a rare and intractable form of epilepsy. Her mother did research on the Internet and found that it was specifically a high CBD, low THC marijuana oil that stopped Charlotte Figi’s seizures.

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Advocates hail measure to modernize medical marijuana law

MEDIA RELEASE Patient advocates celebrated the signing of two bills to improve Hawaii’s 13-year-old medical marijuana program – the first updates to pass the legislature since the program began. Approved Tuesday were measures to move program oversight away from the Department of Public Safety Narcotics Enforcement Division (NED) and to the Department of Health (DOH), […]

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