{"id":6404,"date":"2010-04-06T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:15:54","slug":"hawaii-kills-medical-marijuana-dispensary-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/04\/hawaii-kills-medical-marijuana-dispensary-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii kills medical marijuana dispensary measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">A proposal to create medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii has gone up in smoke.<br \/>\nThe idea is dead because the House Judiciary Committee refused to consider the measure before a legislative deadline Thursday.<br \/>\nCommittee Chairman Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu says he was worried that marijuana dispensaries would fuel illegal sales of the drug. He&#8217;s also concerned about the state running up against federal drug laws.<br \/>\nMedical marijuana patients argue that Hawaii needs to reform its decade-old law allowing them to smoke and even grow the drug, but prohibiting them from buying it.<br \/>\nThe bill passed the Senate and two House committees before stalling.  Medical marijuana dispensaries will likely be considered again during next year&#8217;s legislative session.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:  www.omaha.com,  1st April 2010<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to create medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii has gone up in smoke. The idea is dead because the House Judiciary Committee refused to consider the measure before a legislative deadline Thursday. Committee Chairman Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu says he was worried that marijuana dispensaries would fuel illegal sales of the drug. He&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}