In 2000, Hawaiian governor Ben Cayetano signed into law Act 228, allowing medical marijuana cardholders to grow their own cannabis or appoint a caretaker to do so.
[2] To register, you must have a licensed physician certifying that the patient’s health condition can be benefited from medical marijuana.
[6] In February 2017, the Hawaii House of Representatives Agricultural Committee passed legislation to remove criminal or civil sanctions for the "planting, growing, harvesting, possessing, processing, selling, or buying" of industrial hemp.
[7] In February 2019, a bill was introduced to legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and over, however, it died in the House of Representatives the following month.
[8][9] On July 1, 2019, Governor David Ige announced that he would let a legislature-passed bill to decriminalize small amounts of cannabis become law without him actually signing it.