Responding to pressure from the news media and the public, the Hawaii Department of Health has agreed to release the names of the people who are on a review panel for applications to grow and sell medical marijuana.
The agency said in a statement that the selection committee members haven’t been chosen yet but that their names will be released “once the panel has been finalized.” The department did not say when that will occur.
Fifty-nine companies have applied for the eight licenses to cultivate and sell medical cannabis, which will be awarded April 15.
Civil Beat and other news media organizations had submitted public records requests seeking the names of members of the selection committee, but the agency and the governor’s office refused to release them.
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