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Dug In: Big Island Grown’s Deep Cannabis Roots

March 27, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Hawaii, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Big Island Grown (BIG) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose reach now extends to several islands in the archipelago, with plans to develop more wholesale trade as the…

Adult-Use Bill Barely Passes Divided Hawaiian House

SB3335, a bill that would make Hawaii the last Democrat-controlled state to legalize adult-use cannabis, passed the full House on Friday by the slimmest of margins: 25-23. The legislation, which includes amendments from the Senate version, heads to the Finance…

State-regulated marijuana vape cartridges aren’t safe in Hawaii, doctor and whistleblower say

June 5, 2020
AggregatedNews
Hawaii, Science and Technology, Vaping Crisis
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A lack of proper controls over Hawaii’s medical marijuana dispensaries is putting patients’ health in danger, a doctor and state Department of Health whistleblower told Hawaii News Now during a months-long investigation. Medical cannabis is prescribed…

Arcadia Biosciences Receives Its First Industrial Hemp Program License in Hawaii

PRESS RELEASE The company’s new cannabis-dedicated operating unit, Arcadia Specialty Genomics, will commence research this April with a new 10-acre hemp cultivation facility. DAVIS, Calif. (March 4, 2019) – Building on last week’s launch of Arcadia Specialty GenomicsTM, a new…

Hawaii’s 17 Years of Missteps in Legalization Blamed on Ambivalence, Lack of Leadership

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…

Hawaiian Medical Marijuana Revenues To Top $30 Million In First Year

Less than three months after the state awarded its first medical marijuana dispensary licenses, advocates are forecasting huge growth for the industry. A new report by the Hawaii Dispensary Alliance predicts that revenues generated by the state's eight medical marijuana…

Loophole in Hawaii’s Legalization Law Is a Headache for Marijuana Dispensaries

There’s a “gray area” in Hawaii’s up-and-coming medical marijuana dispensary program that few are talking about: In order for dispensaries to procure their first batch of cannabis, someone’s going to have to break the law. The dispensary law does not…

8 Hawaii Companies Win Licenses to Grow and Sell Medical Marijuana

Former CEO of Maui Land & Pineapple David Cole’s Maui Wellness Group LLC is among eight companies that have been selected to receive licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana. Hawaii Department of Health’s Virginia Pressler announced the names of the winners…

Woody Harrelson Denied License to Open Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Hawaii

Woody Harrelson's application to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Hawaii was denied on Friday, according to a report from Reuters. However, the Oscar-nominated actor was not the only person to get denied, as the state reportedly only accepted eight…

Will Hawaii Residents Be Able to Buy Medical Marijuana This Summer?

Hawaii law says marijuana dispensaries can open as soon as July 15. But will the state’s medical marijuana patients actually see dispensaries by then? Some in the industry don’t think so. Last week, the state Department of Health said selections for Hawaii’s…

Hawaii Health Department Speeding Up Issuance of Medical Marijuana Cards

Patient registration cards within the Hawai’i Department of Health’s medical marijuana program are now being issued quicker. The department said Wednesday that the quicker processing is result of a new online registry, reducing the wait to three to five business…

Hawaii Lawmakers Considering Bill to Broaden Where Marijuana Can be Grown

HONOLULU - Some lawmakers and advocates say medical marijuana dispensary applicants could be at a disadvantage because state Health Department rules don't allow greenhouses. Lawmakers are considering a bill to allow medical marijuana business owners to grow plants in greenhouses,…

Hawaii’s Medical Marijuana License Procedures Shrouded in Secrecy

The state Health Department’s selection process for medical marijuana license applicants is layered in secrecy. The department won’t identify the people who are deciding who will get the coveted licenses, and it also won’t say who appointed those people to…

Woody Harrelson Has Applied to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Hawaii

Actor and marijuana advocate Woody Harrelson was one of nearly 60 applicants to apply to open one of Hawaii's first medical marijuana dispensaries. Harrelson, 54, applied for a license in Honolulu County under his company, Simple Organic Living. The Hawaii…

Hawaii Legislators Hurrying to Set Medical Marijuana Rules

HONOLULU — Hawaii lawmakers are considering dozens of proposals to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, as well as a couple that could legalize recreational marijuana. Nearly 16 years after Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical marijuana through the legislative…