Marijuana dispensary licenses will be delayed at least two weeks
ASSOCIATED PRESS / FEB. 17
In this file photo, plants grow in Jeremy Nickle’s backyard in Honolulu. Nickel, who owns Hawaiian Holy Smokes and is applying for a dispensary, grows a variety of strains and has a medical marijuana card.
The Hawaii Health Department has pushed back the date for announcing the winners of the state’s medical marijuana dispensary licenses to April 29 at the earliest.
Originally the state had said the winners would be announced on Friday.
Director of Health Dr. Virginia Pressler said in a news release, “We will be pushing hard to complete our review and announce the licensees by Friday, April 29. While we regret the delay, we believe the priority is to do this the right way, and that includes being fair to the applicants by providing this additional time.”
Hawaii legalized medical marijuana in 2000 but did not provide a way for patients to obtain the drug. Act 241, adopted last year, authorizes the DOH to issue eight licenses to sell medical cannabis — three on Oahu, two each on Hawaii island and Maui, and one on Kauai. Each licensee will be allowed to operate up to two production centers and two retail centers for atotal of 16 dispensaries statewide starting July 15.
For more information about the dispensary program, go to health.hawaii.gov/medicalmarijuana.
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Nothing new here folks, move along and keep puffing and passing.
No problem; the time goes by fast enough anyway.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
So what’s the problem? How about some transparency to the process!
Still more “product testing” to be done… ?
Whoever’s calling the shots must be smoking something good.
Can’t these klowns do ANYTHING according to the law?
In a real job, in the real world, Pressler would have been fired today.
Translation: Those briefcases hold an awful lot of money and we owe it to the applicants to make sure each contribution is counted accurately.