(a) A person commits diversion from a dispensary or production center if the person is a licensee, operator, or employee of a dispensary or production center and intentionally or knowingly diverts to the person’s own use or other unauthorized or illegal use, or takes, makes away with, or secretes, with intent to divert to the person’s own use or other unauthorized or illegal use, any medical cannabis, manufactured cannabis product, or cannabis concentrate under the person’s possession, care, or custody as a licensee, operator, or employee of a medical cannabis dispensary or production center licensed by the department.

Attorney's Note

Under the Hawaii Revised Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class C felonyup to 5 yearsup to $10,000
For details, see Haw. Rev. Stat. § 706-660
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-18

  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • dispensary: means a person licensed by the State pursuant to this chapter to own, operate, or subcontract no more than three production centers and up to two retail dispensing locations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • Manufactured cannabis product: means :

    (1) Any capsule, lozenge, oil or oil extract, tincture, ointment or skin lotion, pill, transdermal patch, or pre-filled and sealed container used to aerosolize and deliver cannabis orally or by inhalation, such as an inhaler , nebulizer, or device that provides safe pulmonary administration, that has been manufactured using cannabis;
    (2) Edible cannabis products;
    (3) Pre-rolled cannabis flower products; or
    (4) Any other products as specified by the department pursuant to section 329D-10(a)(11). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, or any form of business or legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • Production: includes the manufacture of medical cannabis products pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • production center: means a farm or series of structures located within the same secured perimeter fence-line wholly owned, operated, or subcontracted by a person licensed by the State pursuant to this chapter as a medical cannabis dispensary that produces cannabis and manufactured cannabis products to supply cannabis and manufactured cannabis products to one or more of the retail dispensing locations of any licensed medical cannabis dispensary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
(b) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a class C felony.

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