Hawaii’s First Dispensary Sales in Two Decades Plagued by Regulatory and Operational Burdens

September 8, 2017
Kevin Whitton
Hawaii, Policy & Legal, Retail
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It’s been two years since the implementation of the medical cannabis dispensary program in the Aloha State. Finally, on August 8 and 9, two dispensary retail outlets opened for business - one on Maui and one on O‘ahu, respectively. For…

August 2, 2017
Kevin Whitton
Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, Policy & Legal
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In the year 2000, Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical cannabis through the state legislature. Act 228 created a medical cannabis registry program that allowed medical cannabis cardholders to grow their own cannabis or have a caretaker grow…

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