Pubdate: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI) Copyright: 2014 Star Advertiser Contact: http://www.staradvertiser.com/info/Star-Advertiser_Letter_to_the_Editor.html Website: http://www.staradvertiser.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5154 Page: A11 STILL WAITING FOR DISPENSARIES Fourteen years after Hawaii legalized the use of medical marijuana, the state still lacks a dispensary system allowing eligible patients to obtain the drug easily and lawfully. Patients are left to grow pot themselves, or buy it on the black market. A new report by the Legislative Reference Bureau highlights the challenges patients face in Hawaii, and describes how medical-marijuana programs operate in the other 22 states that have them. We've said it before, but we'll say it again: Hawaii needs a dispensary system to match the 2000 law. We hope this latest report will be the springboard to establishing one. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom