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Illegal outside the medical programme; registered patients may grow a limited number of plants.
Illegal without a medical card.[@1]
Medical dispensaries for card holders, including visiting patients.[@1] [Hawaii established its medical law in 2000.](/history/us-hawaii-medical-cannabis-2000/)
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
Illegal outside the medical programme; registered patients may grow a limited number of plants.[@1]
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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
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/)
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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/)
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