Move Hawaii Medical Marijuana Registration from Department of Public Safety to Department of Health
- Target:
- Hawaii Legislature
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.honoluluasa.org
The registration database of medical marijuana patients in the State of Hawaii is currently located with the Department of Public Safety (DPS), Narcotics Enforcement Division. In July of 2008 the Department of Public Safety released the entire database contents including the names, addresses, grow locations, physicians, and medical condition to a Big Island reporter thereby proving itself unreliable in overseeing this confidential information.
Since medical marijuana is currently illegal under federal regulations and medical marijuana patients live in fear of federal prosecution, it does not make sense that the registration database is in the hands of any form of law enforcement.
Because of the confidential medical contents of the database, the Department of Health should be in charge of this registry.
We the undersigned, call on the Legislature of the State of Hawaii to protect the privacy of the medical marijuana patients of Hawaii by removing the medical marijuana registry from the Department of Public Safety, Narcotics Enforcement Division and place it with the Department of Health due to the confidential medical information that is contained within it.
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The Move Hawaii Medical Marijuana Registration from Department of Public Safety to Department of Health petition to Hawaii Legislature was written by HonoluluASA and is in the category Law Reform at GoPetition.