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In 2000, Hawaiian governor Ben Cayetano signed into law Act 228, allowing medical marijuana cardholders to grow their own cannabis or appoint a caretaker to do so. In signing the law, Hawaii became the 8th state to legalize medical cannabis and the first to do so through an act of state legislature.
On January 11, Hawaii SB767 was introduced to legalize cannabis for adult personal use, possession, and sale. It was advanced by the Senate Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs on February 16, along with a bill raising existing limits for possession under state decriminalization.
The Federal administrative process that began with President Biden's directive in 2022, and in 2023 with a recommendation by the Department of Health and Human Services to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act was incomplete at the beginning of 2024. [1]
Jan. 1—New laws taking effect today include an increase in the state minimum wage to $14 an hour, gender-neutral language for birth and marriage certificates, and a requirement that Hawaii law ...
The Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) is a department within the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Hawaii.The department, which commenced operations on January 1, 2024, was created to merge several previously separate law enforcement functions among the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety into a single ...
The Wisconsin controlled substances board has authority to reschedule cannabis pursuant to the rule-making procedures of chapter 227. [146] Drafters planned to submit a petition to the Controlled Substances Board in early 2012. In 2018, Wisconsin voters approved non-binding referendums to legalize medical or recreational marijuana. [147]
About 30,000 of Hawaii’s 557,000 total housing units, or 5.5%, are short-term rentals, compared to cities like Las Vegas, where only 3% are short-term rentals, the report said.
Mar. 3—Part of the problem is that in order to comply with the law to obtain a state license, one must travel thousands of miles to be reeducated through expensive programs since no such ...