Woody Harrelson’s Bid to Open Hawaii Medical Pot Dispensary Denied

Woody Harrelson’s Bid to Open Hawaii Medical Pot Dispensary Denied

by Kipp Jones 30 Apr 2016Honolulu, HI

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/30/woody-harrelsons-bid-open-hawaii-medical-pot-dispensary-denied/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Pink#Gaza_activities

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.