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No One Certified Yet To Receive Medical Marijuana
Posted by FoM on August 06, 2000 at 19:24:45 PT
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Source: SF Gate
Nearly two months have passed since Gov. Ben Cayetano signed a bill making Hawaii the eighth state to legalize possession of marijuana for medical treatment. But no one has been certified to get it because state narcotics enforcement officials are still writing procedures to allow doctors to register patients. The proposal will go to the attorney general's office, public hearings, and the governor before they are adopted, perhaps by the end of this year. 
But the new law doesn't say how or where patients can obtain marijuana, said Keith Kamita, chief of the state's narcotics enforcement division. ``That's one of the flaws in the law,'' he said. Besides making no provisions for distribution or sale of marijuana for medical purposes, or law doesn't even allow a patient to obtain seeds or plants to grow their own. In the meantime, a growing network of underground growers is said to be filling a demand for medical marijuana. They often give the marijuana to friends for medicinal use or sell it far below the market prices. The growers are well aware that federal law prohibits marijuana, even for medical purposes. Hawaii probably will have to follow the same pattern as other states in which somebody who forms a growers' club or buyers' club gets arrested, and the issues are aired in court, said Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Feedback:http://www.sfgate.com/select.feedback.htmlHonolulu (AP)Sunday, August 6, 2000 ©2000 Associated Press  Related Articles & Web Sites:NORMLhttp://www.norml.org/Drug Policy Forum Of Hawaiihttp://www.drugsense.org/dpfhi/Hawaii Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Billhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6060.shtmlHawaii Senate Approves Medical Marijuana Billhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread5510.shtml CannabisNews Search - Governor Ben Cayetano http://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=Gov.+Ben+Cayetano
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