By Monterey Bud
Medical marijuana cultivators in Hawaii have been given the proverbial “green light” to start cultivating their first crop of state-sanctioned medicinal cannabis and could begin germinating their first crop of seeds — or planting their clones — as early as next week.
On your mark, get set, grow!
According to Hawaii News Now, the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) is preparing to launch its online tracking system BioTrackTHC on Feb. 1, 2017. The seed-to-sale tracking system will monitor the movement of medical marijuana as it flows through the state’s MMJ system from growers to customers.
While Hawaii’s DOH still needs to integrate its BioTrackTHC system with the state registry of patients and their yet-to-be-certified testing labs, Tina Sprague, a Hawaiian medical marijuana patient who’s been dealing with serious health issues has been frustrated by the lengthy delay:
“I just want to know when I can get my medicine and when my family can get their medicine. I have a background in IT development. It should not take this long.”
The medical marijuana program had approximately 15,300 registered patients as of Dec. 31, 2016, per Hawaii’s DOH. Of the eight authorized dispensaries, four have signaled they are ready, willing, and anxious to schedule their final inspections.
Seeds or Clones?
The old axiom that time equals money rings particularly true for Hawaii’s growers. As licensees contemplate cultivating from either seeds or clones, in a rush to hit full maturation, dispensaries are permitted to cultivate no more than 3,000 marijuana plants per cycle.
Projected to harvest over $20 million in total revenue for the first 12 months of operations, the HDA (Hawaii Dispensary Alliance) broke their projections down by the state’s individual counties: Kauai: $1,519,992 – $4,559,976 – Maui: $1,456,659 – $4,369,977 – Honolulu: $1,013,328 – $3,039,984 – Hawaii: $2,596,653 – $7,789,959.
Medical marijuana cultivators in Hawaii have been given the proverbial “green light” to start cultivating their first crop of state-sanctioned medicinal cannabis and could begin germinating their first crop of seeds — or planting their clones — as early as next week.
On your mark, get set, grow!
According to Hawaii News Now, the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) is preparing to launch its online tracking system BioTrackTHC on Feb. 1, 2017. The seed-to-sale tracking system will monitor the movement of medical marijuana as it flows through the state’s MMJ system from growers to customers.
While Hawaii’s DOH still needs to integrate its BioTrackTHC system with the state registry of patients and their yet-to-be-certified testing labs, Tina Sprague, a Hawaiian medical marijuana patient who’s been dealing with serious health issues has been frustrated by the lengthy delay:
“I just want to know when I can get my medicine and when my family can get their medicine. I have a background in IT development. It should not take this long.”
The medical marijuana program had approximately 15,300 registered patients as of Dec. 31, 2016, per Hawaii’s DOH. Of the eight authorized dispensaries, four have signaled they are ready, willing, and anxious to schedule their final inspections.
Seeds or Clones?
The old axiom that time equals money rings particularly true for Hawaii’s growers. As licensees contemplate cultivating from either seeds or clones, in a rush to hit full maturation, dispensaries are permitted to cultivate no more than 3,000 marijuana plants per cycle.
Projected to harvest over $20 million in total revenue for the first 12 months of operations, the HDA (Hawaii Dispensary Alliance) broke their projections down by the state’s individual counties: Kauai: $1,519,992 – $4,559,976 – Maui: $1,456,659 – $4,369,977 – Honolulu: $1,013,328 – $3,039,984 – Hawaii: $2,596,653 – $7,789,959.
