Bill Text: HI SB2461 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Medical Cannabis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-03 - Act 172, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). [SB2461 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2461-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
H.D. 1 |
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C.D. 1 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The purpose of this Act is to allow medical cannabis dispensaries to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from other dispensaries without any showing that such purchase is:
(1) Necessary for a qualifying patient's continuous access for medical use; or
(2) For medical, scientific, or other legitimate purposes.
SECTION 2. Section 329D-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (r) to read as follows:
"(r) A dispensary
may purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another
dispensary. The department [may]
shall authorize a dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured
cannabis products from another dispensary in a manner prescribed by the
department by rules adopted pursuant to section 329D-27; provided that:
[(1) The purchasing dispensary
establishes to the department's
satisfaction that:
(A) The purchase is necessary to ensure
that qualifying patients have continuous access to cannabis for medical use; or
(B) The cannabis and manufactured
cannabis products are for medical, scientific, or other legitimate purposes
approved by the State;
(2)] (1) The selling dispensary may transport [no]
not more than eight hundred ounces, or other amounts with prior approval
by the department, of cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to the
purchasing dispensary within a thirty-day period;
[(3)] (2) The cannabis and manufactured cannabis
products are transported between the dispensaries for medical[,] sales,
scientific[,] use, or other legitimate purposes approved by the
State; and
[(4)] (3) Nothing in this subsection shall
relieve any dispensary of its responsibilities and obligations under this
chapter and chapter 329."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
DOH; Medical Cannabis; Dispensaries
Description:
Authorizes medical cannabis dispensaries to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from other dispensaries without showing that such purchase is necessary for a qualifying patient's continuous access for medical use, or for medical, scientific, or other legitimate purposes. (CD1)
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