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Senate Committee Advances Bill To Legalize Recreational Marijuana - Honolulu Civil Beat
Another bill approved by the committee would decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of cannabis. Reading time: 4 minutes.
Hawaii would join the 15 other states that have legalized recreational use of marijuana under a bill advanced by a state Senate committee on Tuesday, but the measure still has a very long way to go before it can win final passage.
In what appears to be a nod to the long odds faced by the legalization proposal, the same Senate committee also gave preliminary approval to a measure to decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana.