Hawaii: Dispensary bill gets first House committee hearing — your support needed!
Published: March 9, 2010
Hawaii could become the seventh state to allow patients safe access to their medicine via dispensaries, but we need your help to keep the pressure on the state legislature to pass this important measure. On Thursday, March 11, S.B. 2213, a bill allowing counties to establish medical marijuana dispensaries, is scheduled for a joint hearing before the House Public Safety and Health Committees. S.B. 2213 passed the Senate last week, and now must make its way through the House before it can be sent to Gov. Lingle’s desk.
We urge you to attend the hearing and show your support for improving Hawaii's marijuana laws.
What: Committee hearing on marijuana dispensary legislation
Where: Conference Room 309, State Capitol, located at 415 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
When: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:45 a.m.
It is particularly important that the committee hear from registered patients who have had difficulty accessing their medicine.
Whether you are able to attend or not, please determine if your representative is on one of these committees, and if so, call and ask him or her to support improving Hawaii's marijuana laws. First, you will need to determine who your representative is, if you do not already know.
After you have located your representative, check to see if he or she is a member of one the committees:
If your representative is on one of the committees, please call and urge him or her to support improving Hawaii's marijuana laws. If your representative is not on one of the committees, please call the chair and vice chair of each committee instead. Click here for a summary of the bill, along with talking points to help guide you through your call.
You should also go here to submit written testimony in favor of the bill; testimony is due by 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday. If you decide to submit testimony, please consider using our talking points to craft your message, or you can simply click "support" to let committee members know you want them to vote "yes" on this important bill.
Thank you for supporting the Marijuana Policy Project and all of our allies. Please pass this alert along to others in Hawaii who might wish to see more sensible marijuana laws enacted this year.
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