HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii state senators are taking up a proposal to develop a system of medical marijuana dispensaries, which would give patients legal access to the drug nearly 15 years after it became legal in Hawaii.
A Senate panel heard the proposal on Friday.
Maria Eloisa Reyes attended the hearing with her son, who because of a medical condition has about of 14 seizures per month despite taking several medications, she said. The seizures last as long as a half hour. Reyes wants her son to try medical marijuana, and she has a degree in agriculture, but she doesn't believe she can grow the plant herself because she doesn't have legal access to the correct strain to help her son, she said.
