Drugs

...comparing the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 15 key metrics, ranging from arrest and overdose rates to opioid prescriptions and meth-lab incidents per capita....

“If there’s any silver lining to what law breakers are posting on social media, is that it’s caused significant public outrage."

...Presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH News....

Don’t worry: You can trust the Feds and Silicon Valley with your ‘medical’ marijuana records—unless you annoy them in some way....

“Deaths of despair” in midlife rose most dramatically for white non-Hispanic Americans with a high school degree or less and more on the Sister Isles than on Oahu....

Company Plans to Expand Customer Base Domestically and Internationally in New Cannabis Markets....

...this bill would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list - joining other industries such as alcohol and tobacco....

Farmers in SE Colorado started harvesting the plant in 2013, and farmers in Vermont began harvesting in 2014....

Senate Bill 548....

2008 conviction of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime....

...will give homeless who commit perpetual misdemeanor crimes the option to go before a judge to choose either jail or rehabilitation/taking of their meds/getting off drugs, or getting job training....

Limit opioid painkiller prescriptions to one week at a time....

... legislators are considering a special, higher GET rate for marijuana, but haven’t decided upon that rate yet ....

....paranoia will destroy ya....

MADD wants tougher Hawaii law for DUI with kids in car....

...consumers and purchasers have paid artificially high monopoly prices since late 2009, when generic alternatives of Suboxone might otherwise have become available. During that time, annual sales of Suboxone topped $1 billion....

In light of recent inquiries regarding physicians’ legal authority to prescribe the drug Suboxone for the purpose of opioid detoxification or maintenance treatment of opioid dependence....

Paper Scripts! Hawaii is the lowest ranked state for electronic prescription of controlled substances ....

The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department is barred from using federal funds to prosecute individuals in states where medical marijuana is legal and the individuals are in compliance with state law....

Rats’ blood vessels took at least three times longer to recover function after only a minute of breathing secondhand marijuana smoke....

There is a clear pattern....

...hemp-based electrodes for supercapacitors....

...DOH today released the scores and ranking of the applicants for Medical Marijuana Dispensary Licenses....

...filing an official rulemaking petition demanding that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)  remove industrial hemp from the federal drug schedules....

Licensees were selected based on the scoring of 13 merit criteria....

Keawe Ryder, a 37-year old Kona musician, was found dead in a South Kohala lava field in 2013. He had been shot and hit with a hammer....

... will Hawaii be next? ....

...two studies that serve as guides for legislators, the media, and the public as to the state of marijuana taxation today and the implications of taxing marijuana in the future....

...The rule goes into effect August 8, 2016....

...Senate Bill 2659 passed with a unanimous vote in both Chambers....

Which cronies get to sell marijuana? -- Click here to find out ....

... marijuana providers with high startup costs are not allowed to deduct any of them or any routine business expenses ....

The Hawaii State Department of Health is reviewing the criminal history records of applicants for the Medical Marijuana Dispensary licenses....

...one of the panel members was unable to fully participate in the selection, and his scoring will not be included....

Here's what we are reading today....

Hawaii has decided it’s time to figure out....

... Monday April 4, 2016 at 9:15am ....

... Drinking and driving can affect everyone but those most at risk are lawmakers ....

...If an applicant, representative of an applying entity, member of the media, legislator or other government official, member of the public, or any other person contacts a selection panel member to discuss an applicant or the selection process, or tries to influence their decisions in any way, the panel member is required to immediately report the contact to DOH....

...over 4,500 people in Maui, Hawaii have signed a petition supporting industrial hemp in Maui....

The Hawaii Department of Health’s medical marijuana registry program is now able to issue patient registration cards in a fraction of the time it took to process a year ago....

The following update was posted on the Hawaii DoH Marijuana Webpage Friday, Feb 12....

Section 6 removes the penalties for the unauthorized diversion (theft) from a dispensary or production center....

Now you know why Hawaii’s dispensaries are required to grow indoors....

A total of 66 applications were received....

The bill is unabashedly simple and seeks to reduce both possession of drugs and the distribution of drugs from felonies to civil violations....

To illustrate how the carrot-and-stick approach can work, Satel describes the success of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program....

...police disclosed his identity either directly or indirectly to persons being investigated....