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Growing cannabis at Noa Botanicals

By Jamm Aquino

April 7, 2019

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Video by Jamm Aquino / jaquino@staradvertiser.com
Noa Botanicals is one of eight licensees to open Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensaries. Here is a look inside its facility, one of the first cannabis factories to open in Hawaii since retail dispensaries debuted in the state in 2017. The Kunia facility has roughly 1,000 plants and can produce several thousand pounds of marijuana a year.
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Brian Goldstein, CEO of Noa Botanicals, explains the the meaning behind cannabis and marijuana. Noa Botanicals is one of eight licensees to open Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Noa Botanicals employees who wished not to be identified prepare to package medical cannabis on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Noa Botanicals CEO Brian Goldstein gestures as a machine heats raw CBD oil, which is to be boiled to burn off the ethanol, on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Noa Botanicals production employee Chandler Johnson extracts raw CBD oil, which is to be boiled to burn off the ethanol, on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia. Reflected in the instrument panel at left is Noa Botanicals CEO Brian Goldstein.
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Noa Botanicals production manager Eddie Pono trims cannabis on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Noa Botanicals employee Linda Angelucci holds a bucket of the Honey Banana strain of cannabis on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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The “Honey Banana” strain of cannabis is photographed on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis plants are seen in the growing room on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis plants are seen in the growing room on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Noa Botanicals employee Ralph Roibal checks on cannabis plants on Friday, April 5, 2019 in the Clone Room at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis oil bubbles as it burns off ethanol on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis is trimmed on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis is trimmed on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Brian Goldstein, CEO of Noa Botanicals, points to a bud on a cannabis plant on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis buds and plants are photographed in the “Veg room,” where plants are grown and nurtured in various stages, on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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Cannabis plants are seen on Friday, April 5, 2019 in the Clone Room at Noa Botanicals growing and production facilities in Kunia.
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