Lance Alyas

THE DISPENSARY WARS — PART 6: A FENTANYL DEALER THANKS THE HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ATTORNEY GENERAL
How Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Crackdown Is Driving Consumers From Legal Stores Toward the Illicit Drug Market
 • Lance Alyas
THE DISPENSARY WARS — PART 5: THE CARTEL AND THE PRESS
Inside Cure Oahu: How Hawaiʻi’s Medical Cannabis Monopoly, Political Ties, and Media Power Raise Questions About Competition, Regulation, and Who…
 • Lance Alyas
THE DISPENSARY WARS — PART 4: OUTLAWS
Hawaiʻi Hemp Enforcement: Why the Department of Health and Attorney General Gave Businesses a July 1 Deadline—One Day Before a Federal Court Hearing on…
 • Lance Alyas
THE DISPENSARY WARS — PART 3: FIRST CAME THE MOLD. THEN CAME THE THIEVES.
A former Noa Botanicals employee describes two precision thefts of valuable cannabis genetics from a licensed Hawaiʻi cultivation facility — raising new…
 • Lance Alyas
THE DISPENSARY WARS — PART 2: SOMEBODY WAS WATCHING
Former Noa Botanicals Employee Alleges Moldy Medical Cannabis Was Sprayed With Sulfur and Sold While Hawaii’s Department of Health Looked Elsewhere
 • Lance Alyas

July 2026

THE DISPENSARY WARS — PART 1: THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Inside Hawaiʻi’s Cannabis War: How Eight Licensed Dispensary Companies, Act 269, Political Influence, and a Crackdown on Hemp Businesses Reshaped the…
 • Lance Alyas
The Devastation at My Doorstep
Inside Hawaii’s Hemp Crackdown: The Cancer Patients, Veterans, Families, and Recovering Addicts Living With the Human Cost of July 1 Enforcement
 • Lance Alyas
Don’t Ever Bake Cookies With the Hawaii Department of Health!
How Hawaii’s Department of Health Uses Heat to Turn Legal Hemp Into “Illegal” THC—and Why the State’s THCA Rules Are Being Challenged in Federal Court
 • Lance Alyas
Hawaii’s Hemp Crackdown Tests Federal Law After Supreme Court Rebukes Anne Lopez
Congress legalized hemp in 2018. Hawaii rewrote the rules, criminalized federally compliant products, and now the same attorney general just rebuked by…
 • Lance Alyas

June 2026

The Calendar Doesn’t Lie, Even When the State Does - Hawaii News Now Covers Our Story!
Hawaii hemp retailer Oʻahu Dispensary and Provisions responds to Hawaii News Now coverage, challenging the Department of Health’s “always illegal…
 • Lance Alyas
ODP Is Suspending Operations July 1. Here's Exactly Why — and What It Proves.
Oʻahu Dispensary suspends core hemp retail operations ahead of a July 2 federal court hearing challenging Hawaii’s sudden enforcement crackdown on Farm…
 • Lance Alyas
Yahoo News and Reason Magazine Cover Lance Alyas’ Hawaiʻi Hemp Lawsuit Against Harsh State Regulations
After Reason Magazine reported on Lance Alyas’ federal lawsuit challenging Hawaiʻi’s hemp regulations, Yahoo News picked up the story — bringing…
 • Lance Alyas
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