STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3463

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.C.R. No. 48

       H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Higher Education, Health, and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 48, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CONVENING OF A TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGULATED STATEWIDE DISPENSARY SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the convening of a task force to develop recommendations for the establishment of a regulated statewide dispensary system for medical marijuana.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, University of Hawaii at Mānoa College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center, Hawaii Medical Association, Community Alliance on Prisons, Americans for Democratic Action Hawaii, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, The Drug Action Policy Group, Hawaiian Standards & Green Futures, and six individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Police Department and the Maui County Police Department.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Legislative Reference Bureau.

 

     Your Committees find that many of the State's 13,000 patients who qualify to use medical marijuana lack the ability to obtain medical marijuana.  A regulated statewide dispensary system for medical marijuana would benefit qualifying patients.  This measure would request that the task force examine, among other things, models of medical marijuana dispensary systems in other jurisdictions and make recommendations on the best course of action for the State in establishing its own medical marijuana dispensary system.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education, Health, and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 48, H.D. 2, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education, Health, and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

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JOSH GREEN, Chair

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair