Pubdate: Sat, 06 Aug 2011
Source: Maui News, The (HI)
Copyright: 2011 The Maui News
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Author: Mary Overbay

HAWAII MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW CONFUSES, CONTRADICTS

Does anyone know if medical marijuana in Hawaii is really legal or not?

The law is clear that medical marijuana is legal in Hawaii. However, 
the sale of all forms of marijuana is not legal in Hawaii, including 
seeds and sprouts.

How can legal cannabis patients grow plants with no seeds? What are 
they supposed to do, go to the Maui magic marijuana seed fairy?

Legitimate cannabis patients are confused. Official Hawaii police 
departments/Narcotics Enforcement Division brochures unequivocally 
state, "Marijuana is not medicine."

Perhaps you remember, in February, The Maui News published "Police 
pan pot proposals," which reported about the Maui Police Department's 
anti-medical marijuana lobbying efforts, at Walmart.

This police program seems to be illegal, public-funded lobbying to 
me, but what can we do? My inquiry to the Governor's Office in May 
has not yet generated a response.

I would deeply appreciate anyone, including any staff member of The 
Maui News, answering the decade-old question: Is there any procedure 
to "acquire" legal medical marijuana in Hawaii or not?

My husband was a disabled World War II veteran and a medical 
marijuana patient. He died of cancer in 2007, and I promised him I 
would continue his support of compassionate programs for medical 
cannabis patients.

Mary Overbay

Paia
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