Officials with the state of Hawaii Department of Health announced that Maui Wellness Group and Pono Life Sciences Maui are their choices to run medical marijuana dispensaries in Maui County, Health Department Director Virginia Pressler announced today at a news conference (which I got to watch live thanks to a livestream from Honolulu Civil Beat, which filed this story on the announcement).
Records with the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) show that Maui Wellness Group is based in Wailuku and run by Maui Wellness Management, which is run by Gregory Park, MD and David C. Cole (who used to run the Maui Land & Pineapple Co). Pono Life Sciences Maui only has a Honolulu address and is run by William Mitchell and Robert Wong.
Companies that included various celebrities (Maui Medical Marijuana Dispensary LLC, Shep Gordon and Simple Organic Living LLC, Woody Harrelson) or public officials (Hawaii Medicinal Options, Sen. J. Kalani English) didn’t make the cut. Nor did Grateful Meds, LLC, which is run by longtime marijuana eradicator Donald Shearer (click here for our March 9, 2016 story on him).
Keep in mind these are merely the state’s selections–the state will issue dispensary licenses after the selected companies send in their $75,000 application fees. Patients should be able to buy from dispensaries in July, officials announced.
Anyway, here’s the whole list of selections, as announced by Pressler at today’s press conference:
CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU
Aloha Green Holdings, Inc.
Manoa Botanicals LLC
TCG Retro Market 1 LLC
COUNTY OF HAWAII
Hawaiian Ethos LLC
Lau Ola LLC
COUNTY OF MAUI
Maui Wellness Group LLC
Pono Life Sciences LLC
COUNTY OF KAUAI
Green Aloha, Ltd.
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