Hawaii bill seeks to allow growing marijuana outdoors
ASSOCIATED PRESS / SEPT. 2015
In this file photo, marijuana plants are seen nearly ready for harvest at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill. Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill to allow medical marijuana business owners to grow plants in greenhouses, shade houses or outdoors in open air.
Some Hawaii lawmakers and advocates say medical marijuana dispensary applicants could be at a disadvantage because health department rules don’t allow greenhouses.
Lawmakers are considering a bill to allow medical marijuana business owners to grow plants in greenhouses, shade houses or outdoors in open air. Hawaii has some of the highest electricity costs in the nation, and potential business owners say they could save thousands of dollars in electricity costs growing marijuana with sunlight.
Right now, Hawaii Department of Health rules ban growing marijuana in greenhouses or outdoors.
Some lawmakers and advocates say some Hawaii residents may have been deterred from applying because it would have been so expensive to grow indoors. They question whether the health department should reopen the dispensary application process entirely if rules are changed.
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I don’t get it!! Can’t grow pot indoors or outdoors???? 60 years of domination weakens the mind from too much inbreeding!!!
Serious, growers must get approval from the Feds before thinking about growing marijuana indoors or outdoors. Marijuana remains an illegal drug, even if it’s identified as “Medical” marijuana. Why is Hawaii legislators worried about growing costs or, I’ll add contamination of the crops, yet no one can produce any crop of the Schedule I drug. Kinda kapakahi.
I thought Department of Health would do a better job than the Sheriffs’ Department, but no such luck. DoH has made one mistake after another. Find a DOH Director or staff personnel that can do what the law requires and not make a mess of things.