Major reforms to medical marijuana program become law

Big changes are coming to Hawaii’s troubled medical marijuana system to make it easier for patients to use cannabis for more conditions legally.

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  1. @XIII5XIII on August 31, 2025 at 3:50 pm

    The LoLoCrats are getting desperate, next they’ll want crackheads to stop buying from their dealers and come get a better deal at the station.

  2. @wasabiginger6993 on August 31, 2025 at 3:51 pm

    gov Green is afraid Trump will legalize it.

  3. @YungRedd on August 31, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    The simple fact is that the state would rather reform the mmj portion instead of just recreational. That tells me everything I need to know.
    If they actually cared, it would already be legalized. Considering Hawaii was one of the first states to allow mmj, you’d think it’d be one of the first to pass a recreational use bill. Shame on you, Gov. Green

  4. @S.V.TeFiti on August 31, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Sounds like that dispensary lobby money is being put to work. The dispensaries wanna be the head honcho boss you can’t buy weed on the island unless you buy it from us or else they don’t mention we can’t grow weed anymore in three years, even if you have a medical card

  5. @purplepidgin on August 31, 2025 at 3:53 pm

    The first time I bought from a dispensary in Hawaii it was a total ripoff and the weed was over a year old and stale, not to mention the price what a joke. 10 plants per person is a joke, it’s a plant grow up you greedy fu cks

  6. @paulkpkagawa7129 on August 31, 2025 at 3:56 pm

    State spent years on green harvesting… now dems and rhino wants kick backs in the form of permits and taxing of a level 1 drug…
    substance im was convicted for commercial growing in 94 then in 99 i had a medical license as a convicted felony… what changed politicians mind… power and control by the state of HEWA NEI… its called Traduced policy…

  7. @marcdavis6736 on August 31, 2025 at 3:56 pm

    Aloha, medical weed is so overpriced? Why? Does not Hawai’i electeds want to see people not suffer? Because, the prices at the dispenseries are so high. How can the poor participate? IT IS NOT FAIR!
    WHY DO THE ELECTEDS AND THE GOVERNOR NOT SHOW COMPASSION FOR THOSE SUFFERING? I HAVE SEVERE PAIN ALL THE THE TIME WITH ARTHRITIS. WEED HELPS ME HANDLE THE PAIN WELL!
    I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE ALOHA STATE?

  8. @auntienina3142 on August 31, 2025 at 3:57 pm

    Just legalize recreational cannabis! 🙄

  9. @kanakamokunui1039 on August 31, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    What’s funny is everyone complaining about it was the very same people who know or family’s members who use and give pakalolo and some are underage since the 60’s but now it’s a surprise?? CROOKS!!

  10. @SomeoneWatching-s9k on August 31, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Ok.

  11. @Bakanokotosuruna666 on August 31, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    People even can’t pay healthcare!
    How to you think they can pay for licensing and medical weed?
    Are you guys are real stupid!
    Make a real effort to make people life’s better!
    Don’t waste are time!

  12. @kanakamokunui1039 on August 31, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    And the erasing begins…I’ll jump on other threads dummies! Fake Hawaiians report fake news

  13. @garlife2585 on August 31, 2025 at 4:05 pm

    100$oz where

  14. @aquacommelina on August 31, 2025 at 4:06 pm

    It needs to be recreational in all of Hawaii. Even Montana has recreational. You would see more purchasers from dispensaries.

  15. @1JamesWilliamson1 on August 31, 2025 at 4:06 pm

    Too many european settlers in Hawaii now

  16. @Koonohi on August 31, 2025 at 4:09 pm

    Cost is high, pun intended, for licenses, etc in Hawaii so…

  17. @alwaysroma on August 31, 2025 at 4:09 pm

    We all need more natural medicine.

  18. @PorkChopSammie on August 31, 2025 at 4:10 pm

    Support your local cane-field legacy guerrilla grower. 🤙🏼🪻🌸

  19. @kanakamokunui1039 on August 31, 2025 at 4:10 pm

    Just know these guys move here,open dispensaries and than MAKE SURE NO HAWAIIAN BLOODED OPENS ONE UP! They will take to state and federal and pay them with handshakes to obtain the 1 million insured policy

  20. @kanakamokunui1039 on August 31, 2025 at 4:11 pm

    Let’s see how corrupt all news outlets in Hawaii..Now if You speak the truth,They will black ball You from all comments.This what happens when You have to bow down to the Mayor and governor or You won’t report news in this town again….CORRUPTION

  21. @Takolim-m8r on August 31, 2025 at 4:13 pm

    There only regulating weed so they can profit from it. This has nothing to do with what’s right.

  22. @ShantelLiaga on August 31, 2025 at 4:14 pm

    🤘

  23. @govjoshflappinhol on August 31, 2025 at 4:15 pm

    This trench war fern needs moar snobby sluts fo sho

  24. @kanakamokunui1039 on August 31, 2025 at 4:15 pm

    NON HAWAIIANS THAT USED TO BE AGAINST MARIJUANA NOW OWN DISPENSARIES WITH THE GOVERNMENTS HELP…ALL
    ONE BIG SCAM FROM THESE OVERSEAS COMPANIES AND THE STATE OF HAWAII..CORRUPTION FROM ALL NEWS OUTLETS TO THE GOVERNMENT

  25. @yasssgawwwd5643 on August 31, 2025 at 4:15 pm

    How much he say for an ounce? $100? 1:32

  26. @Julianalikaromanrilveria on August 31, 2025 at 4:17 pm

    Dispensaries are to expensive to buy flowers id rather buy from the black market. For me being paralyzed…

  27. @pigspigs76 on August 31, 2025 at 4:18 pm

    Dispensaries suck .. bring in co-op’s and clubs – people should HELP growing their own

  28. @HumanGreedinc on August 31, 2025 at 4:19 pm

    🌲🏋️‍♂️🌾🌾🦬🌾🌾

  29. @David-fd9cr on August 31, 2025 at 4:19 pm

    Decades ago, there was a study that predicted that criminalizing Cannabis in Hawaii would lead to wider use of hard drugs, while decriminalization of Cannabis would reduce hard drug use.

    We know what path the state took, think of how many families suffered from the scourge of hard drugs that have plagued communities across Hawaii.

    And they still insist on the states roadblocks to shake down money under the guise of safety.

    If they cared about safety, cannabis would be legal.

  30. @jonthebru on August 31, 2025 at 4:24 pm

    From a comment below: "Politicians need to get out of the way." It’s dumb to continue micromanaging the culture. Criminalizing individuals who are not criminals shows how stupid and out of touch these elected clowns are. Fascist religions may have something to do with it of course.

  31. @yasssgawwwd5643 on August 31, 2025 at 4:25 pm

    I get more thru my friends illegally than going to the dispensary legally.

  32. @manifestationnation on August 31, 2025 at 4:26 pm

    changes intended to keep money funneled into the pockets of the 5-10 people who make money off medical mj in hawaii, and the lawmakers they’ve purchased

  33. @mikesmenagerie6392 on August 31, 2025 at 4:26 pm

    I dont trust qualty of dispensary products.
    You dont know what your getting.
    How lame can you get.
    Its still scedual 1.
    Criminal or patient, which one are we
    Cant have it both ways.

  34. @haroldwhitaker4558 on August 31, 2025 at 4:30 pm

    Politicians need to get out of the way. It was easy before government felt the need to get involved. If they want to promote something that can save agricultural land, then try hemp. More uses and potential for growth. Medical cannabis is a personal decision that doesn’t need government intervention. It’s unethical to think that this will be a money making business. It’s about compassionate care; something that government doesn’t do well.
    Try working on the many other areas like education, housing, safety and sustainability.

  35. @Underthehighwatermark on August 31, 2025 at 4:31 pm

    So long as it’s illegal on the federal level and you can still be criminally charged by the feds and lose some of your rights, I don’t see why anyone would go the " legal " route.

  36. @wasabiginger6993 on August 31, 2025 at 4:32 pm

    Huge cash cow … same old same old … but gov Green lines his pockets with it.

  37. @HawaiiSustainable on August 31, 2025 at 4:33 pm

    lol and the funniest part we could sell to the dispensaries that are greedy and overpriced so they could mark up our flower that puts there’s to shame but why would anyone do that as no one shops at the mids shops.

  38. @manlab66 on August 31, 2025 at 4:33 pm

    way cheaper to buy THCA online and have USPS be your dispensary – this DoH system is corrupt AF

  39. @alwaysroma on August 31, 2025 at 4:35 pm

    The state wants money. They want to keep them and their rich friends rich on over priced plants that God put on earth. Atleast they can grow their own.

  40. @adonijah7774 on August 31, 2025 at 4:35 pm

    who da lolo who stole mi pakalolo

  41. @minorityreporter9104 on August 31, 2025 at 4:37 pm

    State don’t care about medical patients they just want the tax money

  42. @bodyboardingchronicles602 on August 31, 2025 at 4:38 pm

    What about V.A. Honolulu? Veterans deserve? 🫡

  43. @johnstamos4629 on August 31, 2025 at 4:39 pm

    Support your local dealer until they can MEET or BEAT the street price! Also, they need to RELAX! Let me touch it, smell it or FORGET IT!

  44. @malaihiboi on August 31, 2025 at 4:42 pm

    If you want more money, change the laws. Work to take it off the schedule 1 list federally so more people with stricter jobs can be able to use it as the medicine God intended it to be. Why is alcohol seen as safer and legal when it’s not safer? Money again. Cancer rising… let us regulate our bodies cannabinoid systems so our lymph node systems can combat cancers and diseases how it is supposed to.

  45. @HawaiiSustainable on August 31, 2025 at 4:44 pm

    Ty Cheng and the other greedy owners of the 8 licenses mids dispensaries work with corrupt legislators like Jarrett here and greedy Green. Working to increase the profits of federally illegal rubbish. His flower competes with $200 lb not 100 oz. The new law adds huge fines and limits of 5 cards. With trying to outlaw federally legal hemp it’s outrageous levels of corruption. As a patient and farmer I’m over 329.

  46. @LesDabest-nv8nb on August 31, 2025 at 4:44 pm

    Just plant the seed and water it so simple

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