A national policy group wants to tackle your questions.
The group is called Project SAM which stands for Smart Approaches to Marijuana.
Project SAM started a Hawaii chapter with a goal of educating and engaging the community about marijuana use and legalization.
"We are actually here to say there is a lot of science that needs to be discussed. There’s a lot of issues in Hawaii – tourism, business etc. That have to be discussed before we make any of these rash decision," said Project Sam Chair Patrick Kennedy.
In Hawaii, marijuana possession is a petty misdemeanor crime, but there is discussion in the state capitol to decriminalize marijuana.
Project SAM, has four main goals:
• To prevent the establishment of "Big Marijuana" – and a 21st-Century tobacco industry that would market marijuana to children.
• To promote research of marijuana’s medical properties and produce, non-smoked, non-psychoactive pharmacy-attainable medications.
• To inform public policy with the science of today’s marijuana.
• To have an adult conversation about reducing the unintended consequences of current marijuana policies, such as lifelong stigma due to arrest.
Project SAM is holding community meetings across the state.
Oahu
• March 18 at Kapolei High School, 6-7:30 p.m.
• March 19 at Queen Liliuokalani Children’s Center in Kaneohe, 6-7:30 p.m.
Big Island
• March 20 at Kanu O Ka Aina Charter in Waimea, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lana’i
• March 21 at Koele Lodge, 1-3 p.m.
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