Ohana - Your needs

I am delighted to announce that I have just gotten the go ahead from my firm to practice family and trusts and estates law. As you may know, I practiced in these areas in New York City, and am delighted to practice here in Hawaii. If you need help, just give me a call. I will still be conducting my business and real estate practice, along with my devotion to Cannabis Law, but I am just expanding a little and thought everyone should know.

Top Ten Pot Smoking States

Salon magazine offer a list.Top Ten. Hawaii did not make the cut - maybe next year.

The Notorious RBG

One of our all time favorite justices has a praying mantis named after her reports Slate. You go on with your bad self RBG.

Medical Marijuana Dispensary Winners Announced

List of medical marijuana dispensary winners.

Hawaii Women's Fund Tea & Champagne 2016

Come join us May 16.

Hawaii Medical Marijuana Dispensary Licenses Announced Today

Despite last minute challenges, Civil Beat reports that Medical Marijuana Dispensary Licenses will be announced today.

Why Is Marijuana a Schedule 1 Drug?

The complicated history of illegal drugs, including cannabis, The Real Reason Certain Drugs Are Illegal from Salon.

Fannie Mae Makes Mortgages More Accessible

Hawaii is slightly under the national average with respect to home ownership largely owing income disparity. Lower and middle class residents own fewer homes. In 2015, Fannie Mae created  HomeReady a federal program that has  a lower mortgage insurance requirement. The mortgage insurance is cancelable when the loan reaches 80 percent loan-to-value, a factor that is unique to the product. The program also requires a three percent down payment, meaning one can finance up to 97%.

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Delayed a Fortnight

Pacific Business News reports that the announcement date for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Hawaii will be delayed for two weeks. Everyone is on tenterhooks as it is. We will just have to inhale and wait a couple of weeks.

Cannabis Omnibus

It was our honor to have Senator Will Espero on  on Life in the Law  (Wednesdays 1-2 on ThinkTechHawaii.com) to discuss current and pending cannabis legislation. We also discussed a future space station for space tourism. WOW.

HWL Awards Dinner

Do not forget, April 22 is the Hawaii Women Lawyers Awards Dinner - buy a table or a ticket. It's the place to be!

79 cents to the Dollar

Today is National Equal Pay Day which is the Day a women's annual salary equals that of a man's. In other words, if a man earned $50,000 in 2015 it would take a women another 3 1/2 months to attain an equal amount. Income disparity affects all of us, and we all should be working towards parity every day.

Waiting on the judgment day

The Honolulu Star Advertiser is reporting that background checks may delay the issuance of the Medical Marijuana Dispensary licenses.

States of Women's Minds

This handy little map showing women in state legislatures is  featured in Civil Beat's Female Lawmakers, State by State. We need a little more oomph.

Monday, Monday

The Department of Health is supposed to announce the licensees for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries here in Hawaii on Friday, April 15 -- but smart money puts it a little closer to the following Monday.

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Another hiatus - but I have been busy - a few webcasts from ThinkTechHawaii.

Sorry for the Hiatus - Busy with Medical Marijuana Dispensary Business!

Here is an editorial from today's Star Advertiser calling for a reopening of the Hawaii Medical Marijuana application process: Reopen! Are there opinions out there? There are numerous new bills concerning a wide variety of marijuana related subjects. Should we wait until they pass? Also, should there be  transparency in the disclosure of the panel?