Woody Harrelson’s
Bid to Open Hawaii Medical Pot Dispensary Denied
by Kipp Jones 30 Apr 2016Honolulu, HI
Actor Woody Harrelson
has been denied a license to sell medical marijuana in Hawaii.
The Associated Press reported
Saturday, April 30 that Harrelson was among nearly 60 Hawaii residents who
applied earlier this year to open one of the state’s first medical marijuana
dispensaries. Of the eight companies granted licenses, Harrelson’s was not
among them.
The Hawaii Department of Health said in a press
release:
After receiving more than 60 applications in January, the
department conducted a rigorous review and selection process. A four-member
selection panel reviewed and scored applications based on thirteen merit
criteria, some of which include the ability to operate a business, a plan and
timeline for operations, proof of financial stability, ability to comply with
security requirements, and capacity to meet patient needs.
The applicants’ scores will be made public within two
weeks.
Harrelson, who is a marijuana advocate, applied for a
license in February in Honolulu County under his Simple Organic Living company.
According to the AP, applicants were required to have $1
million cash and $100,000 for each dispensary location. Each company selected
is permitted to operate two locations.
The eight companies selected are required to pay a
$75,000 licensing fee to the Department of Health within seven days.
Those dispensaries can open beginning July 15, after they
are inspected by the Health Department.
A representative for Harrelson declined to comment on the
application denial.
Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical
marijuana in 2000.
Legislation signed into law in July 2015 recognized that
while medical marijuana for “seriously ill” individuals in the state was already
legal, people seeking to legally use the drug were “unable to grow their own
supply of medical marijuana.”
Act 241
found that as a result, a regulated statewide dispensary system for medical
marijuana was “urgently needed by qualifying patients in the state.”
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson
is an actor, and an honorary
director at the Rainforest Action
Network.
Note: Jodie Evans is a
director at the Rainforest Action
Network, a co-founder for Codepink,
a director at the Drug Policy Alliance,
and a trustee at the Institute for
Policy Studies.
Code Pink
Gaza activities
Code Pink has organized more than seven delegations to Gaza.
Critics have since accused Code Pink of working "closely with terrorist
organizations and states sponsors of terrorism" in Gaza
and Iran.[16]
Prior to the Gaza Freedom March, Code Pink endorsed the “Cairo Declaration to
End Israeli Apartheid", which calls for comprehensive boycott of Israel.[17]
During the Gaza Freedom March, Code Pink co-founder Medea
Benjamin coordinated the organization's stay with the Hamas terrorist group. Members resided in the Commodore, a Hamas-owned hotel
in Gaza City.
Hamas security officials accompanied activists as they visited Palestinian
homes and Gaza-based NGOs.[18]
Prior to the march, Benjamin said the Hamas government had "pledged to
ensure our safety."[19]
However, Code Pink leaders claimed Hamas had hijacked the initiative from the
onset after imposing prohibitions on the organization's movements around Gaza. Amira Hass
referred to the event as "an opportunity for Hamas cabinet ministers to
get decent media coverage in the company of Western demonstrators."[18]
Code Pink helped to organize
an International Women's Day Delegation to Gaza in March 2014. Upon arrival at
the Cairo airport on March 3, 2014, Medea Benjamin was detained and assaulted
by Egyptian authorities. She was deported to Turkey after the authorities had
dislocated her shoulder.[20]
Other members of the international delegation, including American, French,
Belgian, and British citizens, who arrived the next day were also deported.
Some members made it into Cairo, although no one from the delegation made it to
Gaza.
Medea Benjamin
is a co-founder for Codepink.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Drug Policy Alliance.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman of the Open Society Foundations, a director at the Drug Policy Alliance, Jonathan
Soros’s father, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute.
Jonathan Soros is
a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute, and George Soros’s
son.
Katrina
vanden Heuvel is a director at the Roosevelt
Institute, a director at the Institute
for Policy Studies, an editor & publisher for The Nation, and married to Stephen
F. Cohen.
Stephen F. Cohen
is married to Katrina vanden Heuvel,
a contributing editor for The Nation,
and a friend of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is a friend of Stephen F. Cohen, an advisory
board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, was a general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, and the chair for the Roosevelt
Institute.
Jonathan Soros is
a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute, and George Soros’s
son.
Katrina
vanden Heuvel is a director at the Roosevelt
Institute, an editor & publisher for The Nation, married to Stephen
F. Cohen, and a director at the Institute
for Policy Studies.
Jodie
Evans is a trustee at the Institute
for Policy Studies, a co-founder for Codepink,
a director at the Drug Policy Alliance,
and a director at the Rainforest Action
Network.
Woody Harrelson
is an honorary director at the Rainforest
Action Network, and an actor.
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