Hawaii lawmakers have 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.
At a joint hearing of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Commerce and Consumer Protections Committee on Wednesday, members approved the legislation from Sen. Angus McKelvey (D), with an amendment 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 the hearing 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 SB 3315 could have helped her family as they supported a terminally ill relative, “where we tried every possible prescriptive ability” and “really needed that one-time use.”
“So for those reasons, I’m going to be passing [the bill] with amendments” to reduce the purchase limit from two ounces to one ounce.
The measure’s approval comes as legislators also weigh proposals
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