Hawaii
Programs
- Medical Cannabis Patient Registry Program
- Medical Cannabis Dispensary Program
Dispensaries
- Kauai
- Green Aloha, 1 location
- Oahu
- Cure Oahu: 1 location
- Noa Botanicals: 3 locations
- Aloha Green Apothecary: 2 locations
- Maui
- Maui Grown Therapies: 1 location
- Pono Life Sciences Maui: 1 location
- Hawaii
- Big Island Grown Dispensaries: 3 locations
- Hawaiian Ethos: 3 locations
Geography
“Travel by any means, inter-island, to and from the mainland USA, and internationally means passing through federal airspace or jurisdiction. This may put medical cannabis patient or caregivers travelling [sic] with cannabis and/or cannabis infused products of any kind in jeopardy with the possibility of delay or arrest.”
Out of State Patient Application
Regulatory Agencies
State of Hawaii, Department of Health, Medical Cannabis Program
Sales Data
- Hawaii Compiled September 2021 Sales Data
- Contact Tami Whitney for monthly sales updates from Hawaii’s medical marijuana program.
- Tami Whitney, Program Coordinator, Medical Cannabis Registry Program, State of Hawaii Department of Health – Email: Tamara.Whitney@doh.hawaii.gov
Financial Institutions
- Banks: 8
- Note: all banks are headquartered in Honolulu
- Credit Unions: 51
Safe Harbor Private Banking and CanPay
- Release: Hawai’i Unveils First Cashless Payment System for Medical Cannabis (September 12, 2017)
- “The state has secured the services of Colorado-based Safe Harbor Private Banking that will provide limited and temporary financial services for Hawai‘i’s cannabis dispensaries. CanPay, a debit payment mobile application, will process sales transactions at retail dispensaries. Hawaii’s eight dispensary license holders have agreed implement cashless operations by a targeted date of October 1, 2017.”
Regulatory Agency
Banking Guidance
- Cannabis is legal in my state, why can’t I find a BANK?, Commissioner Iris Ikeda (September 2018)
- The audience of this document is CRBs
- How to open a MMD account, Commissioner Iris Ikeda (February 2017)
- This is a real how-to guide for financial institutions that want to bank cannabis businesses
- So, You Want to Open a MMJ Account, Commissioner Iris Ikeda (October 2016)
- Banking and Medical Marijuana, Commissioner Iris Ikeda (October 2015)
- Patient medical marijuana credentials are known as “329 Cards”.
- Inter-island transportation of medical marijuana is prohibited.
- Patient possession limit is 4 ounces.
- There is an “Out of State Patient” card available to those with a valid medical marijuana license issued by another state, the District of Columbia, or US territory.
- The OSP is available for a maximum of two, sixty-day terms per year.
State Cannabis Regulatory Authority
Address: Main Office:
Hawaii Department of Health
Kinau Hale
1250 Punchbowl Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
News Releases (for the entire Department of Health):
https://health.hawaii.gov/news/
News Releases (for the medical cannabis dispensary):
https://health.hawaii.gov/medicalcannabisdispensary/latest-updates-and-news/
Contact :
Phone: (808) 586-4400 General DPH Number
Questions can also be emailed to: https://health.hawaii.gov/about/contact/
State Banking Regulatory Authority
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs – Financial Institutions:
Address:
Division of Financial Institutions
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
King Kalakaua Building
335 Merchant Street, Rm. 221
Honolulu, HI 96813
Email: dfi@dcca.hawaii.gov
Phone: 808-586-2820
Fax: 808-586-2818
Residents on the neighbor islands may call the following numbers followed by 6-2820 or 7-8642 and the # sign:
Kauai 808-274-3141
Maui 808-984-2400
Hawaii 808-974-4000
Lanai & Molokai 1-800-468-4644 (toll free)
