Medical cannabis clinic to open soon in Honolulu
HONOLULU (AP) Oahu’s first medical marijuana clinic is scheduled to open in Honolulu in about three weeks.
The Hemp and Cannabis Founditon based in Portland, Oregon, will operate the clinic which will open September 7th in a building on Kapiolani Boulevard near Ala Moana Center.
Foundation executive director Paul Stanford says the decision to open a clinic in Honolulu was prompted by the belief that Hawaii’s medical cannabis program is underused.
Only about 300 of the 27-hundred patients certified to use cannabis for medical purposes live on Oahu. More than half are on the Big Island.
Stanford says the foundation’s goal is to help certify two-thousand patients in the first year and four-thousand to five-thousand in the second year.
Sanford says about 50 appointments are lined up for the Honolulu clinic’s opening days.
