The Hawaii Dispensary Alliance is extremely honored to join the State Department of Health, State Department of Public Safety, State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and the Hawaii State Bar Association in discussing the status and progress of the implementation of Act 241, relating to medical marijuana, the promulgation of interim rules and regulations pursuant to Act 241, and areas of further policy development related to medical marijuana dispensaries.
The informational briefing will take place on Monday, December 28, 2015 at 1:30 pm in Conference Room 325, at the Capitol, before the House Committee on Health and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health. The details can be found here.
As mentioned in our recent posts, the Department of Health released the interim rules for Hawaii’s new medical marijuana dispensary system and the application criteria for the dispensary license process. This informational briefing will be one of the only formal opportunity provided to the industry to give feedback on the interim rules to the Legislature prior to the upcoming legislative session, and will inform the legislative agenda for the industry in 2016.
As a representative of the industry and its business interests, we will be providing you with more information as it becomes available and we will solicit the opinions and views of our members on the draft rules for incorporation into our testimony. We look forward to giving voice to what each of you has to say about the interim rules over the next 10 days, in the lead-up to the hearing.
If you have any questions, or want to get involved in the drafting of the Alliance’s testimony, feel free to contact us anytime. We look forward to speaking with you in person, on Facebook or Twitter, and over the phone. You should also consider joining the Alliance today to receive the Alliance’s Hawai‘i specific newsletter and analysis of the new rules in our upcoming issue.