Hawaii senators have taken up a pair of bills to legalize marijuana—with one proposal contingent on federal reform or changes to the state Constitution and the other omitting provisions allowing for commercial sales.
Members of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Commerce and Consumer Protections Committee took up the measures—SB 2421 and SB 3275 from Sen. Joy San Buenaventura (D)—at a joint hearing on Tuesday.
The panels also discussed separate legislation allowing for the sale of certain hemp-derived cannabinoid products and permitting one-time medical cannabis sales for patients with pending registration applications.
The hearing comes after key House lawmakers signaled that legalization proposals that originated in that chamber would not be advancing in the 2026 session, citing a lack of sufficient support to get them crossed over and potentially enacted.
In the Senate, SB 2421 would create a Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Office within the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to oversee the regulation of a adult-use cannabis market if there’s a constitutional change at the state level or change in federal marijuana laws permitting such a reform.
“In addition to legalizing medical use cannabis, numerous states and jurisdictions, including Hawaii, have opted to decriminalize the
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