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Attention Maui Medical Patients: Are you having trouble growing for yourself?

As a group of over 1000 medical marijuana patients, Patients Without Time can help. Together we can overcome theft, bugs, mold, reliance on the black-market and lacking proper knowledge and resources.

During the 2007 session, with the help of our testimonies, House Concurrent Resolution 10 (HCR 10) passed the State of Hawai'i House of Representatives Health committee. After being adopted by the entire House of Representatives, the Judiciary committee deferred to vote on the resolution. This year, HCR 10 was crafted shaped and introduced into a bill - HB 2675, calling upon Maui County's "family farmers" to supply the medical needs of the community. The County of Maui will control medical marijuana by taxing and regulating individual patient's leased plots on the "family farmer's" secured agriculturally-zoned land, allowing patients to grow collectively and always have safe access to their medicine.

We know we are not alone. Last year, the State of New Mexico passed legislation creating a state-operated medical marijuana distribution system and the State of California Board of Equalization levied a 7.25% sales tax on medical marijuana sales.

Be part of the change and part of the solution!

Please contact your Representative as well as the members of the House Judiciary Committee and tell them how important it is that they address the needs of Maui patients registered with the state to possess and use medicinal cannabis. For your convenience, contact information for the Committee is available here.

Three of the members of the judiciary committee are from Maui.
Kyle Yamashita, Maui's upcountry representative, actually voted against the resolution.

Lahaina to Kihei: Representative Angus McKelvey
(808) 586-6160
Wailuku:Representative Joe Souki
(808) 586-9444
Upcountry: Kyle Yamashita
(808) 586-6330


The other Judicial Committee Members:

Chair: Representative Tommy Waters (D-Oahu)
Vice Chair: Representative Blake K. Oshiro (D-Oahu)

Representative Kirk Caldwell(D-Oahu) Representative Cindy Evans (D- Big Island) Representative Josh Green(D-Big Island) Representative Ken Ito(D-Oahu) Representative Sylvia Luke (D-Oahu) Representative Hermina M. Morita (D-Kaua'i)

Representative Alex M. Sonson (D-Oahu) Representative Clift Tsuji (D-Big Island) Representative Ryan I. Yamane (D-Oahu) Representative Barbara C. Marumoto (R-Oahu) Representative Kymberly Marcos Pine (R-Oahu) Representative Cynthia Thielen (R-Oahu)

Read Written Testimony from Paul Armentano, NORML's senior policy analyst