Another Hawaii Senate committee has approved a bill to allow patients to immediately access medical cannabis once their registrations are submitted, instead of having to wait until their cards are delivered as is the case under current law.
About a month after clearing a joint House and Senate panel with an amendment, the legislation from Sen. Angus McKelvey (D) moved through the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The panel also adopted a defective date, March 22, 2075, as a procedural step to flag the bill as needing further discussion before it can be enacted.
At its prior committee stop, members adopted a revision to SB 3315, lowering the one-time purchase limit to one ounce of cannabis instead of the two ounces that would have been covered by the measure as introduced.
Sen. Joy San Buenaventura (D), chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, said at that panel’s hearing last month that she believes regulators are equipped to track those interim sales “using administrative rules as required,” and she said her support it partly informed by personal experience.
The chairwoman said the bill could have helped her family as they supported a terminally ill relative, “where we tried every possible
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