Marijuana Business Magazine

Florida The Office of Medical Marijuana Use is dealing with a major patient backlog, which some stakeholders say is forcing patients to wait longer than the mandated 30 days to receive their MMJ cards. The state health depart- ment is “flooded” with MMJ registration applications, up to 3,000 pending at any given time, with staffers receiv- ing about 1,300 calls a day from prospective patients. One physician who’s recommending MMJ for patients estimated the wait time is up to about seven weeks instead of 30 days. Hawaii Hawaii said it will be the first state to require marijuana sales to be handled without cash because it wants to avoid robberies and other crimes involving dispensaries. Beginning Oct. 1, Hawaii planned to quit allowing medi- cal marijuana dispensaries to accept cash and to require people to use a debit payment app instead. The app is already an option for marijuana transactions in six states, including California and Colorado.