Senators want big changes in Hawaii’s medical marijuana laws

Big reforms may be in store for Hawaii’s medical marijuana program along with a crackdown on illicit cannabidiol (CBD) outlets.

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  1. @joycek6556 on June 3, 2025 at 11:34 am

    Wasting BS on things that are not so important in Hawaii – can’t they find anything of more important to want to change to better our state for all of the Hawaii’s residents?

  2. @durshi01 on June 3, 2025 at 11:37 am

    Hawaii is so far from the rest of the United States on this topic. They speak about illegal purchases but they continue to have more regulation and harder for patients to find relief from their ailments. So many states are legalizing it and reaping the benefits. Between this and gambling our state is just giving $$$$ away to illegal enterprises. So the question is WHY? Shoot, I’m still amazed that the Hawaiian community hasn’t opened a casino. I’m unclear on this versus what the native Americans are able to do on their land. Can you even imagine the benefits for the Hawaiian community to have this much $$$ coming into their bank account and shared throughout the Hawaiian community. Is the State of Hawaii blocking this or actually made it illegal. The Hawaiians also got their land taken away and no relief for them like the Native Americans. Anyway, getting of subject. They should just legalize it and bring in those taxes so our state can take care of the Hawaii population and residents. I drive ride share and hear all day how terrible our streets are and why once you get out of Waikiki the streets are so bad. I just shake my head; cause I really have no answer for that. I wonder the same. We are taxed; e.g. my street on Waiaka Road hasn’t been redone / paved for years now. We have so much traffic coming through our neighborhood do to it being a shortcut to get to University. Well slowly becoming a not short cut. So much traffic. But the road is just being neglected. Shoot our community is being neglected. Especially when they allow a tree contractor to stage their heavy vehicles under the freeway and they drive those heavy vehicles down our street as well as those heavy duty dump trucks and their shuttle vehicles. Every day. Just legalize it, no more worry for the police, no more worry for patients to get their relief (they could just go to a store), free up time for our police and prosecutors to focus on REAL crime and what is happening in our state right now. Like guns and e-bikes. Make our state safe again. I know I don’t feel as safe as I did when I was growing up here. This is ALL on our government and their failure to address our states needs and what the people want. I hear from so many locals that we are losing the Aloha here. I say well of course the culture is changing. We are allowing outside investors / contractors to come into Hawaii (free world I know) and slowly change our state. How you may ask, we are getting a lot of retirees moving to Hawaii with their retirement wealth and buying property and at least living here but they also bring with them their mainland values and thinking. I see whole neighborhoods changing cause of this. They will vote and bring in their type of politician that also wants their idea of what Hawaii should be. We gotta wake up Hawaii, We gotta wake up. Change is happening in front of us and we aren’t doing anything about it. sorry for rant. but this is so ridiculous that our lawmakers are still hashing this topic out. Waste of time and money………

  3. @TheKablue on June 3, 2025 at 11:39 am

    The legal dispensaries are too expensive for many patients.

  4. @Mannix-q9u on June 3, 2025 at 11:40 am

    NO 4get FAUCHI-jabbs cuz

  5. @Makaha-87B on June 3, 2025 at 11:43 am

    Legalize it ! You got meth, Fetanly and heroin killing people ! You can’t stop fireworks or e-bikes ..

  6. @markfisher3111 on June 3, 2025 at 11:43 am

    The real story is how come the first state to bring medical cannabis has failed so miserably compared to all the other states that have thrived in this industry. You know the revenue exists for the state, but we still don’t want that money. The only thing preventing this is control and corruption. Take a look at who really is benefiting from this industry not progressing. 🤙🏼

  7. @techshabbyver.C-137 on June 3, 2025 at 11:44 am

    Medical marijuanna 😉 nudge nudge wink wink

  8. @l82nite on June 3, 2025 at 11:47 am

    This is nothing but a joke. I’m sure less that 5% but from them. The rest buy on the street. I wonder how many elected are pot heard. Lots of cops are. Majority of city and state workers are. We all know most teachers are. I’m sure over half the state are pot heads. enforcement is a joke.

  9. @S.V.TeFiti on June 3, 2025 at 11:47 am

    Make the medical MJ better like making CBD stores illegal? CBD and hemp is great.. Undercutting the Dispensaries? Good they should be operating for medical use at a no profit…. Why tax medical users more?

  10. @teresammmm6171 on June 3, 2025 at 11:47 am

    This is what should be addressed; when you live in a non-smoking building where are you supposed to medicate? The open air 5 story garage is "part of the building". Cant smoke in public, nor drive while medicated. So where do we go???

  11. @HawaiiSustainable on June 3, 2025 at 11:49 am

    Why would I want to wholesale to the low quality overpriced dispensary monopoly? No one except tourists shops there. Adding fines to patients is a deeply immoral act by these senators featured in this story.

  12. @808frontline on June 3, 2025 at 11:50 am

    JUST MAKE IT RECREATIONAL OR THE BLACK MARKET IT IS…

    IT IS SIMPLE!!! IT WILL BRING IN BILLIONS TO HAWAII …

  13. @Warrior4Keakua on June 3, 2025 at 11:51 am

    If you grow your own greedy democrats can’t tax it. Hence why they want you to buy from the dispensary. Lower quality for much higher prices.

  14. @fijiunlimited4503 on June 3, 2025 at 11:51 am

    The tradition of Hawaii lawmakers being obtuse and backwards continues on!

  15. @unclemikecruz on June 3, 2025 at 11:52 am

    It’s all about the money, nothing more. What about fentanyl? What about ice? When our precious legislature went after weed growers a whole lot of heavier drugs went on sale on the streets. What about those? Half ass measures don’t make it in my books. So where’s the priority on heavy drugs? Quit thinking people are stop in Hawai’i.

  16. @jonathanjoe2816 on June 3, 2025 at 11:55 am

    It’s illegal when the government doesn’t get their hands on the profit.

  17. @Jazzfestn on June 3, 2025 at 11:55 am

    More monitoring and CONTROL…LOCAL style. And MORE MONEY for DOCTORS!
    Why not GROW our OWN?! Because politicians cannot SKIM!

  18. @Ftmstyle23 on June 3, 2025 at 11:57 am

    We just gonna act like the water in that bong didnt come from the Ala Wai?

  19. @M.R.T.V.Videos on June 3, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Is this a coincidence? i doubt it 😂

  20. @808Motorrad on June 3, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Just like fireworks, blow, and meth.. Keeping it illegal will certainly stop people from getting it. 😂😂 The tools in the legislative are so convinced that every problem is solved with a law against it.

  21. @MsRoRo23 on June 3, 2025 at 11:59 am

    But that’s where it’s at stupids. Do any of you decision makers smoke weed? I bet not so you wouldn’t know. This is gonna be a problem and you want that. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

  22. @KookinHaole on June 3, 2025 at 11:59 am

    They already non existent.
    I smell it everywhere in ala moana

  23. @TimBergerPlus on June 3, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    Cracking down more on something that should be legal seems like the wrong direction. More money wasted senselessly.

  24. @BladeGorilla on June 3, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    Sounds to me like they aren’t getting enough cut from marijuana taxes, so they want to go greenharvest style again. The so called medical conditions to qualify for a med card have always been minimal. Stress, cant sleep, not hungry, easy.

  25. @Warrior4Keakua on June 3, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    Democrats only care about tax revenue. If they can’t tax it it’s illegal.

  26. @robertlee810 on June 3, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Couldn’t control illegal growers for decade what make you think you delusional democrats can control now?

  27. @ClarkKent-g3m on June 3, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Ban pot shops.

  28. @CurtisIopa on June 3, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    Get plenty all over plant your own hellow

  29. @QuantumOfSolace1 on June 3, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    Say no to weed

  30. @mokudawg7862 on June 3, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    Honestly crack down on the way some of these medical companies run their places. I’ve worked for one for 4 years and seen to much bad stuff happening when it shouldn’t it’s so simple

  31. @Larry-ww3 on June 3, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    Blah blah blah blah is all I hear.

  32. @StephenSternforPresident on June 3, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    When are we going to accept that every human being every animal experiences anxiety depression those are natural biochemical functions they’re not disabilities

  33. @ericmarshall8097 on June 3, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    The politicians griff is being taken away that why they are cracking down on CBD. It was never about medical use it was always about the griff that politicians ownership of regulated (pot) drug dealerships.

  34. @jasonsullivan1790 on June 3, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    This is the things we worried about ?

  35. @richardinman6822 on June 3, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    Always stifling freedom with harsher controls. Cannabis is not a medicine. It is recreationally smoked exactly like tobacco, and tobacco is recreational, and controlled by the ATF. NOT the DEA & DHHS. The real issue is the money, and this state and its government, no matter who gets voted in, wants it all for themselves, or they would just allow it, PERIOD..
    The main issue to me, as a Veteran, is that I enlisted on the notion I was protecting freedom, not protecting those who quash freedom.. Local Cannabis should be just that. Local. And for everyone, not just those who can afford to pay/play the game.
    I have the greatest idea of all…
    Lets do 2 things…
    1. Lets focus on getting hard drugs, like meth, fentanyl, and heroin out of Hawaii.
    2. Lets end the scourge of alcoholism, and the damage it does to people and society, and lets just put open market local cannabis, and ALL of its derivatives in place of alcohol.

  36. @leternadia on June 3, 2025 at 12:13 pm

    Piss me off to have my child smelling weed every time I take her to the playground, beach, etc. even her room gets stinky when the neighbors smokes. Any chance to make legal only weed pens or weed that doesn’t smells? Or maybe prohibit the use in public places and condominiums?

  37. @HawaiiSustainable on June 3, 2025 at 12:13 pm

    No one will go to the low quality overpriced dispensary monopoly. The dispensaries want to ban competition from patients and caregivers by adding $5000 fines. The federally legal hemp will continue to win.

  38. @kodiak536kodiak536 on June 3, 2025 at 12:13 pm

    Government need to stay up to date on use of pakalolo and not get caught up in DECADES old preconceived notions of users.

    I grew up on Oahu and seen too many DRUNKS causing problems vs guys that was high on pot.

  39. @OliveonLove on June 3, 2025 at 12:14 pm

    Cannabis is not a drug. It’s a plant.
    Fentanyl and meth are drugs.
    Anybody catch a clue out there? Hello. Anybody?
    Funny not funny! It’s criminal.

  40. @cpangws on June 3, 2025 at 12:14 pm

    It seems like Hawaii is positioning itself as the main distributor of marijuana, aiming to regulate its sale and potentially drive up prices. This could make it less accessible for those who genuinely need it, much like how big pharmaceutical companies often overprice essential medications. Unfortunately, if you can’t afford it, you’re left without options.

  41. @coraj.cardoso5929 on June 3, 2025 at 12:17 pm

    Just grow some in your backyard. I don’t see green harvest now. But I do work from Monday through Friday so I could be wrong.

  42. @jerrygomes116 on June 3, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    Medical marijuana is not real it’s more chemical related do I have to have real marijuana with no additive

  43. @HawaiiSustainable on June 3, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    SB 1429 and HB 302 were supposed to fix what the legislature said was an oversight of ending the caregivers program. Instead the dispensaries puppets added huge fines to patients and destroyed federally legal hemp.

  44. @XIII5XIII on June 3, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    Senators are the most useless people in Hawaii.

  45. @darrenshimazato4758 on June 3, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    Hawaii will continue to rely on tourism for its income. Unfortunately, you cannot fix stupid. The only solution is to make the right choice when voting next time. Steve Alm mentioned that no one goes to prison for marijuana. So why would people go the hard way obtain it? Hawaii has an opportunity to capitalize on this, but if it’s the right thing to do, they will avoid it.

  46. @Mannix-q9u on June 3, 2025 at 12:24 pm

    Sell on Fakebook cuz

  47. @stephenwong6838 on June 3, 2025 at 12:27 pm

    So stupid and ridiculous – “Pakalolo” has been such an ICONIC part in the fabric of the Hawaiian culture for over SIX-decades now – KAPUNA’s grandchildren are now rolling and smoking joints and our supposed learned leaders in the House and Senate are still proposing to still criminalize its possession and use – While the rest of the United States 🇺🇸 has “stopped” this archaic nonsense of locking citizens up for exercising their rights – There are “FAR WORSE / SERIOUS” drugs in the world that are actually killing people that should be the focus of Law Enforcement

  48. @senderbud31 on June 3, 2025 at 12:28 pm

    1. Make it legal
    2. Profit billions
    3. Use money for good programs that benefits everyone who lives here

  49. @Mannix-q9u on June 3, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    MS13 arrested in Virginia !!!

  50. @SeS-tm4lu on June 3, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    Adults telling other adults what they can or cannot do.

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