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Expand Hawaii state profile: cultivation table, medical and culture sections

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Hawaii countries/us/hi.yaml

segments › cultivation

Illegal outside the medical programme; registered patients may grow a limited number of plants.

segments › consumption

Illegal without a medical card.[@1]

segments › access

Medical dispensaries for card holders, including visiting patients.[@1] [Hawaii established its medical law in 2000.](/history/us-hawaii-medical-cannabis-2000/)

sources

Honolulu Advertiser — Chasing Smoke, A Certain Mystique (2 April 2000) Honolulu Advertiser — Chasing Smoke, Secret Crackdown (2 April 2000) Hawaii Department of Health — Medical Cannabis Registry Program, laws and rules (Act 228 SLH 2000) 5 unchanged

segments › cultivation › text

Illegal outside the medical programme; registered patients may grow a limited number of plants.[@1]

segments › cultivation › currency

USD

segments › cultivation › penalties

label 25 to 50 plants · treatment criminal · term Felony · prison 5 years · fine 10000 · note Fifty or more plants bring longer terms; growing on another's property is punished harder

context › medical › text

Act 228 (2000) started Hawaii's medical framework; licensed dispensaries came later with the 2015 dispensary law.[@8] [Hawaii established its medical law in 2000.](/history/us-hawaii-medical-cannabis-2000/)

context › medical › sources

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context › culture › text

Hawaiʻi has its own word for cannabis: pakalōlō, "numbing tobacco" in Hawaiian and Pidgin.[@6] [Pakalōlō means numbing tobacco.](/culture/language/pakalolo/) Police and National Guard helicopters have hunted outdoor grows since Operation Green Harvest began in 1976.[@7] [Operation Green Harvest began in 1976.](/history/us-hawaii-green-harvest-1976/)

context › culture › sources

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Code, design and documents 1 file

docs/research/expansion-2026-10-28-usa-8.md +7 −1
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 - Audit 0/0; review page verified.
 
-## hi — pending
+## hi (Hawaii) — committed
+- Cultivation table (25–50 plants felony 5yr/$10k, NORML-verified), cites on consumption/access,
+  new `medical` (Act 228 2000 + 2015 dispensary law via verified DOH page) and `culture`
+  (pakalōlō + Green Harvest 1976, atlas-linked, sources from the checked atlas entry).
+- Possession pinned by test #161, untouched. Review blocked once by another agent's full build;
+  waited out the lock and reran clean.
+- Audit 0/0; review page verified.

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