Hawaii seeks to limit cash in medical marijuana dispensary sales

Hawaii regulators announced plans to be the first state to conduct marijuana sales without cash, saying they want to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting medical cannabis dispensaries.

All of Hawaii’s eight licensed dispensaries have agreed to go cashless by Oct. 1, the governor’s office said.

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Several factors led to Hawaii’s flawed medical marijuana launch

By Bart Schaneman

When Hawaii’s two operational medical marijuana dispensaries were forced to close just days after opening, a laboratory bottleneck was blamed for a supply disruption.

But participants in the fledgling MMJ program said the state’s only functioning lab isn’t at fault. Instead, they pointed to a number of other factors for their problems.