Cannabis and Hemp: The Sleeping Giant Bigger Than AI
How Hemp and Cannabis—Legalized Under the 2018 Farm Bill—Threaten Centralized Power, Global Supply Chains, and Hawaii’s Agricultural Future
 • Lance Alyas
Hawaii Hemp Retailers Still Don’t Know the Grace Period — and That Uncertainty Has Consequences
As Hawaii’s new hemp registration law takes effect, retailers face unclear enforcement timelines, regulatory uncertainty, and growing risks to workers…
 • Lance Alyas
Hawaii and Federal Hemp Regulations Are Putting Jobs at Risk
An employee’s fear reveals how sudden cannabis and hemp enforcement — without a grace period — threatens livelihoods across the state and country
 • Lance Alyas
The Quiet Customers Who Need Us Most
A real story from Waikīkī highlighting how legal hemp products, small businesses, and community-based relief support vulnerable individuals in Hawaiʻi.
 • Lance Alyas
Hawaii Hemp at a Crossroads: Entering the New Year With a Federal Lawsuit and Everything on the Line
Why Hawaii hemp businesses are starting the year in federal court, what the lawsuit challenges, and how the future of the industry may be decided in…
 • Lance Alyas

December 2025

The Thin Line Between Order and Chaos: Why Good Laws Need Good Enforcement
How Hawaiʻi’s hemp regulations confuse enforcement, punish compliant businesses, and replace real public safety with regulatory theater driven by…
 • Lance Alyas
Why Big Cannabis Hates the Farm Bill (And Why You Should Care)
How Big Cannabis is lobbying to ban hemp, rewrite the Farm Bill, crush small businesses, and create a monopoly over THC products—putting consumer…
 • Lance Alyas
The Illusion of Regulation: Why Prohibition Creates the Very Chaos It Claims to Prevent
How banning hemp products fuels black market sales, endangers public safety, kills legal oversight, and undermines responsible businesses in Hawaiʻi and…
 • Lance Alyas
Our Responsibility to Our Community
How a Honolulu hemp business supports community safety by voluntarily cooperating with HPD, providing surveillance footage to help solve crimes and…
 • Lance Alyas
The Customer Who Changed How I Think About Risk
A Honolulu Hawaiʻi Hemp Store Owner on Why Banning Legal Hemp Products Hurts Veterans, Families, and Mental Health—The Human Cost Behind the 2025…
 • Lance Alyas
The Line I Won’t Let Anyone Cross
How Honolulu’s escalating homeless crisis is impacting businesses, endangering employees, and forcing owners like me at Oahu Dispensary and Provisions…
 • Lance Alyas
The Mirror Test: The Only Metric That Matters
Integrity in Hawaiʻi’s Hemp and Cannabis Market: How Real Standards Outperform Loopholes, Profit, and Uncertain Regulations
 • Lance Alyas
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