Hawaii: Upcoming hearing on three medical marijuana reform bills
Published: February 3, 2010
This year, a number of medical marijuana-related bills are pending in the Hawaii state legislature. On Thursday, February 4, three of these bills are scheduled for a joint hearing before the Senate Public Safety and Military Affairs and Health Committees: SB 2213, which would allow counties to establish medical marijuana dispensaries; SB 2141, a bill that would address several problematic aspects of Hawaii’s current medical marijuana law; and SB 2212, which would allow probationers and parolees who qualify as medical marijuana patients to use their medicine. All three bills were introduced by Sen. William Espero (D – 20), chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs.
We urge you to attend and show your support for improving Hawaii's marijuana laws.
What: Committee hearing on marijuana legislation
Where: Conference Room 229, State Capitol, located at 415 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
When: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 1:15 p.m.
If you are unable to attend, 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 and his or her telephone number, check to see if he or she is a member of one of the committees:
* Public Safety and Military Affairs Committee
* Health Committee
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 each of the six bills that are being heard on Thursday, along with talking points to help guide you through your call.
Thank you for supporting the Marijuana Policy Project and all of our allies, including Pamela Lichty and Jeanne Ohta of the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii and Matthew Rifkin of the Peaceful Sky Alliance. Please pass this alert along to others in Hawaii who might wish to see more sensible marijuana laws enacted this year.
|
|
|
|
