Report Title:

Medical Marijuana; Adequate Supply

 

Description:

Increases the amount of medical marijuana a qualifying patient may possess to the number of marijuana plants capable of being cultivated in a ten foot by ten foot garden area and forty-eight ounces of dried useable marijuana.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2674

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 329-121, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "adequate supply" to read as follows:

     ""Adequate supply" means an amount of marijuana jointly possessed between the qualifying patient and the primary caregiver that is not more than is reasonably necessary to assure the uninterrupted availability of marijuana for the purpose of alleviating the symptoms or effects of a qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition; provided that an "adequate supply" shall not exceed [three mature marijuana plants, four immature marijuana plants,] the number of marijuana plants capable of being cultivated in a garden area not greater than ten feet by ten feet and [one ounce of usable marijuana per each mature plant.] forty-eight ounces of the useable portions of the marijuana plants, including dried leaves and flowers of the marijuana plant, and any mixture or preparation thereof; provided that it shall not include the seeds, stalks, and roots of the plant."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

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