Hawaii Medical Cannabis Patient Numbers Up 33% in 2017

Month-over-month growth averaged 2%, consistent with data from previous years.

The strongest growth, 4.2%, occurred in May 2017.

Total registered patients surpassed 20,000 in January 2018 – well ahead of early estimates by Marijuana Business Daily.

That’s healthy growth for a market where MMJ has been legal since 2000.

Thanks to Dr. Clifton Otto’s petition to the department of health, Hawaii added amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) to the list of qualifying conditions in December 2017, bringing the number of conditions to 11.