A man told me his business has been going very well lately. There’d been a sharp uptick, specifically, since July 1. He wasn’t a stranger. He’s someone I’ve known for a while—a guy who has served real time, completely unrepentant about how he makes his living, and entirely comfortable moving in the shadows.

He sells pills, occasionally meth, and, as of his most recent arrest just earlier this year, fentanyl. Perhaps because he beat the case due to a faulty search warrant, he was feeling especially untouchable. Whatever the reason, he was perfectly willing to freely tell me, completely unprompted, that the best thing that happened to him this year has been “the new hemp laws. Well, after me beating that bitch ass case they hit me with,” he added sardonically.

He told me to stop complaining on Instagram about “this shit with these hemp laws” because the state’s crackdown had driven his own numbers up so sharply it was impossible not to notice. Although he said it with a smile and apparently in jest, there was an unmistakable menace to his comment and delivery.

“Man, you lucky I like you bro,” he said, his words hardening further, carrying an edge that was deeply disconcerting. “Anyone else who were to play with my money like that and what happens ain’t good.” As he said it, he ran his index finger repeatedly across his tattooed throat—the universal sign for decapitation—a broad, unsettling smile never leaving his face.

He drew the line himself: July 1, and business is booming. He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

What He Understood That the State Pretends Not To

Here is what that man grasped instantly—standing there giving me a threat wrapped in a quarterly update—that ten years of Hawaiʻi cannabis policy has been carefully constructed to deny:

People do not magically stop seeking relief just because you shutter the store where they used to buy it. They simply look somewhere else. And when you seal off every affordable, legal, or semi-legal avenue one by one, that “somewhere else” gets darker at every step, until the final open door left standing is his.

He is not competing with licensed medical dispensaries. He is competing with whatever a desperate person turns to when their legal options vanish. Every door the state closes upstream serves a new customer directly to his porch. It is his fundamental business model. The July 1 enforcement sweep was an unpaid marketing campaign run on his behalf by the state.

Follow the Person, Not Policy

Picture a patient—chronic pain, a valid card, a reliable routine, someone who meticulously followed every rule this system ever wrote. Look at what the last decade actually did to her, executed step by step in her name.

First, the licensed dispensaries priced her out. The state’s own patient registry is actively shrinking—not because people healed, but because they can no longer afford to stay legal.

So she turned to a caregiver or a cooperative grow—patients pooling resources to raise sun-grown plants at a fraction of dispensary prices. But then the licensed operators went to the Legislature and got those options restricted, wrapping every limitation in the language of protection. (Just as we discussed in Part 5.)

Then came hemp. Cheaper, accessible, no card required—for a vast number of patients, it was simply the only relief they could afford. That is the door I stood behind. But eventually, along came Act 269 and the sudden June enforcement drive, and in eight days, that door was slammed shut too.

Now count the doors:

    •    Dispensary: Unaffordable.

    •    Cooperative: Restricted, for her “protection.”

    •    Caregiver grow: Restricted, for her “protection.”

    •    Hemp shop: Criminalized, for her “protection.”

Every affordable path to her own medicine has been sealed shut—and every seal was justified as an act of protection.

And standing at the very end of that long hallway, past every deadbolt, smiling, with his business up since July 1, is the man who sells fentanyl.

One Word

Every tier of this system was built on a single word. The licenses, the testing mandates, the seed-to-sale tracking, the criminal penalties, the enforcement that suddenly found its urgency in eight days—all of it was defended, session after session, in the name of protection.

It is the word invoked to gut caregivers, to restrict cooperatives, and to criminalize hemp shops. And here is what that word produced, measured not by noble intentions, but by hard outcomes on the ground: a patient systematically priced out of the legal market and escorted, one “protective” law at a time, toward the most lethal illicit market that has ever existed.

The man who profits from every closed door in this state looked at what the government did and saw a massive gift. If you want to understand who a policy truly serves, the people who quietly profit from it will always tell you more than the lobbyists testifying for it ever will.

Those lobbyists, the crooks they represent who run the dispensaries, the shameful government figures who capitulated to them, and the morally bankrupt officials at the DOH and AG’s Office all insist that this is just about protecting the people.

They are entirely right. They just failed to clarify that the people they were referring to are degenerate thugs like them, who profit from pain and couldn’t care less about anyone but themselves!

Since this all began—my lawsuit, these writings, the posts on social media--I am bombarded consistently with one question more than any other: Why isn’t this all over the news?!

It is the right question. We are talking about state-protected monopolies, incestuous political relationships, and staggering levels of malevolence and misconduct that strain credulity! That should be an investigative front-page blockbuster. So let us introduce Cure Oahu, explain how the game is actually played, and answer that question once and for all.

The Machine Behind the Brand

Cure Oahu operates through TCG Retro Market 1, LLC. It controls a massive North Shore cultivation facility and three high-traffic retail stores in Kapahulu, Kapolei, and Kailua. More importantly, Cure Oahu is, of course, one of the “Hateful Eight”—the handpicked companies awarded Hawaiʻi’s golden medical-cannabis licenses in 2016 from a pool of over 70-some applicants. The state then locked the door behind them and has kept the market frozen ever since.

Cure Oahu was bankrolled and developed by Tradewind Capital Group, whose president was Richard Lim (he has since taken on a much more reserved, less public role and scrubbed his name from the website, clearly wisening up to the damage of poor optics).

Before taking the wheel at a private investment firm, Lim served as director of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism under Governor Neil Abercrombie. That is not speculation. It is his résumé. The man who ran the state’s business and economic-development apparatus moved directly into leading the firm behind a state-protected cannabis monopoly.

The arrangement becomes even more convenient (and contemptible) from there. Cure Oahu’s government relations and daily operations are handled by Tan Yan Chen, who previously worked under Lim at the State Energy Office. So a key supervisor and his subordinate left state government and resurfaced together atop a multimillion-dollar private enterprise, preserving the same power structure while replacing government identification badges with corporate paychecks.

People politely call this a “revolving door.” That description is far too charitable. This looks more like a state unit that changed uniforms. When you helped operate the bureaucracy, you know who answers the phone, which agency can be bypassed, which approval matters, and how to move through the system while everyone else fills out forms and rots in administrative delay.

The Media Pipeline

Now follow the money to the printing press. Colbert MaKurisu, a Tradewindnolulu insider and Cure Oahu investor, sits on the board of Oahu Publications, Inc. Duane Kurisu, a Tradewind Capital director who controls PacificBasin Communications, also sits on that board.

Oahu Publications owns the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the largest and most influential daily newspaper in Hawaiʻi. In plain English, two essential figures connected to the financing and management of a state-sanctioned cannabis cartel enterprise hold seats on the corporate board of the state’s newspaper of record.

Or to put it more plainly: they control the fucking news!

A system like this does not require secret phone calls or written censorship orders. Concentrated power and overlapping interests can do the work quietly. Editors know the corporate structure. Investigations become “too complicated,” “insufficiently developed,” or somehow never quite editorially viable. Priorities shift. Leads die. Everyone involved can insist that nobody explicitly ordered anything.

You want to know why this series is appearing on Substack instead of the front page of the newspaper? Look at the board. Look at the money. There are your answers!

Protectionism Dressed as Public Safety

Cure Oahu exposed the racket during the 2025 legislative session when it opposed SB 1429, a bill that would have allowed caregivers and patient cooperatives to grow medicine for sick people. It hid behind “public safety” and “residential security,” but the real objection was far uglier: competition.

One of only eight state-licensed cannabis companies wanted poor and seriously ill patients kept legally dependent on dispensaries because every plant grown at home is one less overpriced product sold across its counter.

Then came the shameless part. In the very same testimony, Cure Oahu asked regulators to go easy on licensed dispensaries that exceeded plant limits or botched seed-to-sale tracking.

The demand was unmistakable: punish patients, forgive corporations.

That is not public safety. It is naked greed wrapped in government language—a protected monopoly demanding the state crush anyone who threatens its revenue.

The Asymmetry

This was never merely a story about one bad company. It is a story about a closed, corrupt, cartel system of eight licensees, built around former state officials, institutional capital, political access, aggressive lobbying, and media-board overlap. These companies repeatedly demand that the state crush smaller competitors while carving out softer rules for themselves.

They have the state licenses, the insider capital, the former cabinet officials, the expensive lobbyists, and seats in the corporate boardroom of the printing press. I have a hemp business, a federal lawsuit, and a mailing list.

That grotesque imbalance is the story. It is also precisely why I am never going to be silenced!

Those who have no respect for the law are outside of it. That’s why we call them outlaws.

On June 23, 2026, the Department of Health and the Attorney General announced statewide enforcement against Hawaiʻi’s hemp businesses.

The enforcement was to begin come July 1.

My hearing in federal court was July 2.

One day. The state gave us a deadline that fell one day before I got to stand in front of a judge and explain why the whole thing was unconstitutional.

Think about what that means, because it is not subtle. Whatever happened in that courtroom, whatever the judge decided, we were going to walk in there already gutted. And here I sit on July 23 — three weeks later — still waiting for the ruling.

What an announcement actually does

They never had to padlock a door. The moment a government says your inventory can be seized and you can be prosecuted for selling it, that inventory is dead. Customers stop coming. Employees start job hunting. Suppliers stop shipping. The landlord calls. The bank reads the news. The underwriter asks questions you cannot answer. A shelf full of product becomes a shelf full of liability overnight.

So we did exactly what the announcement was built to make us do. We pulled the disputed products. We closed temporarily to protect ourselves. We reopened with inventory conforming to the state’s demands.

Then we went to the hearing. Nine days after the announcement. One day after the deadline.

And no ruling in the world un-rings that bell! Money not spent is not spent. The customer who found somewhere else to go does not come back because a judge later agrees with me.

Say it out loud

I will not pretend to know what was in anyone’s head. I will give you the calendar and one question.

June 23: enforcement announced.

July 1: comply or face seizure and prosecution.

July 2: the hearing on whether any of it is even lawful.

July 23: still waiting.

Now the question. What is a favorable ruling worth to a business that was already forced to empty its shelves the day before the hearing?

That is the whole game. The state never has to answer it, because time answers it for them, every single day, in their favor.

There is a word for making sure the courtroom is empty before the judge speaks. “Public safety” is not it.

Excellent aim

Now hold that eight-day urgency next to the rest of the year.

Noa Botanicals’ licensed cultivation facility in this state was allegedly run down to four people managing two thousand plants. Broken dehumidifiers leaked onto the canopy. Pink mold spread through the rows. Micronized sulfur went onto flowering plants headed for patients, approved from a downtown executive office. Flower was processed bare-handed out of an open bucket. Genetics were stolen twice by thieves who knew exactly which plants to cut, and management shrugged.

The Department of Health has full authority over that facility. Inspection. Testing. Licensing. The power to walk in unannounced and shut it down.

What have you heard from them about any of it?

Then remember what you heard on June 23, about shops selling a product Congress legalized in 2018 — eight days’ notice, one day before my hearing.

That is not an agency that lacks urgency. That is an agency with excellent aim.

The kind of rot this is

Let me be precise, because I am not using the word loosely.

Nobody at that agency hates me. I doubt most of them know my name. Plenty of them are decent people who took a public health job to do public health work.

That is what makes it worse. This does not require a villain, and it never gets tired. It only looks like an agency that knows exactly which businesses it will inspect and which it will not — enforcement flowing in one direction, toward the market that is not represented in the building, and away from the eight companies that are. It looks like a state that commissioned a study to measure how much market the hemp shops had taken, and then came for the shops that took it.

None of that requires malice toward me personally. It only requires knowing whose calls get returned. That is the filth. Not cruelty in a moment, but a settled understanding of who the department is actually for.

Explain the one day

Explain the one day.

Explain why an agency that could not find its way to a licensed farm for nine months found the urgency to announce statewide enforcement with a deadline that landed the day before my hearing.

I have never gotten an explanation. I do not expect one. Agencies never explain timing, because timing is where intent lives.

But you can hold the calendar yourself. June 23. July 1. July 2. And today, July 23, still nothing.

Ask them about the one day!

Picture the greenhouse at night. Two thousand plants in the dark, the hum of whatever equipment still worked, and somewhere in that green maze, the most valuable plants on the property.

The mothers.

If you don’t grow, here is what a mother plant is: the genetic source stock. The plant an operation takes its cuttings from. Years of selection, every future harvest, the entire library of the company’s product line — standing in a row, alive. You could walk a stranger through that greenhouse for an hour and they could not find the mothers, and if you handed them shears anyway, they would not know where on the plant to cut to take the genetics clean.

Whoever came that night knew both.

The First Robbery

According to the account, the thieves did not ransack the place. They harvested it. They moved through the facility like they had a map, walked past everything else, went straight to the mother plants, and cut them exactly where a trained cultivator would cut them. No wandering, no wasted damage, no amateur mess. In, out, gone — with months of the crew’s work in their hands.

The workers were gutted. These were people who had raised those plants from cuttings, and they came to work to find the heart of the operation carved out with surgical precision.

Then it happened again!

The Second Robbery

Same method. Same precision. Same impossible fluency in the layout of the facility, the location of the genetics, and the correct way to take them. Two break-ins, and both times the thieves demonstrated knowledge that no outsider possesses.

Everyone on that farm understood what they were looking at. This was not a smash-and-grab by lucky strangers — twice. Someone connected to that facility either did it or drew the map.

The Shrug

And now the detail that should stop you cold. When the shaken crew looked to their cultivation manager, Brandon Fenske gave them, in front of the staff, a response the source never forgot:

“Not the first time someone steals my weed, and it won’t be the last.”

That was it. That was the entire corporate response the workers ever saw. No visible investigation, no lockdown, no urgency, no follow-up. The manager of a state-licensed medical cannabis facility watched his genetic library walk out the door twice and reacted like a man reporting the weather.

So Much for Seed-to-Sale

Here is why this matters far beyond one farm’s bad security.

The entire premise of Hawaiʻi’s licensed system — the premise the Attorney General carried into federal court — is control. Seed-to-sale tracking. Chain of custody. Every plant tagged, every gram accounted for from cutting to counter. That control is the sacred difference, we are told, between the eight licensed companies and the hemp shops the state is now threatening with handcuffs and forfeiture.

So answer one question: where did the mother plants go?

They existed. They were tracked — supposedly. Then somebody who knew exactly what they were doing cut them down, and they vanished into the night on an island. Twice. Into whose market? Cloned by whom? Grown out where, processed by whom, and sold to whom?

There are only two possibilities, and both of them destroy the state’s story. Either the vaunted tracking system recorded the most valuable plants in the facility disappearing and nobody acted, or the system never really tracked them at all. Pick whichever answer frightens you less!

And remember the context from Part 2: this is the same period when the crew was cut to a skeleton, the dehumidifiers leaked, the mold spread, and the sulfur came out. A facility coming apart at every seam — physical, sanitary, and now criminal — while the executives downtown made one or two appearances and the Department of Health apparently made none.

The Market Nobody Mentions

For two years, the licensed industry and its allies at the Capitol have told a story about a dangerous “unregulated market” that must be stamped out to protect the public. That story built Act 269. That story justified criminal penalties, seizure, and forfeiture aimed at hemp shops operating openly, in daylight, under a federal law.

Meanwhile, at a licensed facility, genetics worth a fortune were cut loose by someone with inside knowledge and released into — what, exactly? Not the licensed market. Not the hemp shops. The actual illicit market, fed from inside the licensed system itself, while management shrugged.

The unregulated market they warned you about was leaving through their own damn back door!

Lance Alyas

Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

That is the story a former Noa Botanicals employee brought us, with photographs, from inside the company’s licensed cultivation operation — the same company whose chief executive “developed” a bill with a committee chairman in Part 1. Remember the state’s entire justification for criminalizing hemp shops: licensed cannabis is safe because somebody is watching.

Here is what the watching looked like.

The Before

The early photographs show a real medical facility: lab coats, hairnets, gloves, full sanitary protocol. The crew believed in the place. Hold onto that image and cherish it, because it does not survive this story.

The Collapse

While every other business languishes for years just to get a simple permit from the Department of Planning and Permitting’s Building Division, Noa Botanicals was opening up new locations faster than Tony Montana’s money counter in the Scarface montage. And just like Tony’s empire, things started to go south. The company’s new Waikīkī dispensary was failing, so somebody downtown decided the farm would pay for it. Adam, a well-liked manager who held the operation together, was fired first, then cultivators after him, until a skeleton crew — at points as few as four people — was responsible for roughly two thousand living plants. That is five hundred plants per person, in a tropical greenhouse, every single day.

As luck would have it, it was at this juncture that the dehumidifiers broke and leaked water straight onto the canopy. Nobody fixed them, because there was nobody left and no budget. The mold arrived exactly on schedule — pink, and spreading through the rows.

A licensed cultivator facing a mold outbreak has clear duties: cull the crop, eat the loss, fix the machines. Every one of those options costs money, but that is supposed to be irrelevant because every one protects the patient, and the patients are supposed to matter far, far, far more than the money!

The “Fix”

According to the account, the patients were the last thing cultivation manager Brandon Fenske had a cheaper idea: micronized sulfur, sprayed on the plants, pitched upstairs as a cure-all. And it was approved from the downtown Honolulu office — by an executive the farm workers knew as “Kar”: Karlyn Laulusa, the chief executive of Noa Botanicals. Yes, the same Karlyn Laulusa from the committee chairman’s email in Part 1.

So they sprayed sulfur directly onto flowering cannabis headed for dispensary shelves.

Understand what that means. Sulfur is only used early in a plant’s life, and every serious grower knows why: residue left on flower converts to sulfur dioxide when the flower is lit. The patient inhales the remediation! Sulfur dioxide is a respiratory irritant, and a medical cannabis patient is, by definition, someone already unwell.

That is the charitable reading, in which the sulfur was an honest attempt to fight the mold. The uncharitable reading is simpler: you cannot sell moldy cannabis, but you can sell cannabis that has been sprayed.

The After

The later photographs show the same facility with every standard gone. One shows a worker processing cannabis bare-handed, in casual clothes, with an open bucket of flower in their lap. No gloves, no lab coat, no protocol — not relaxed, but extinct.

By the end of the period described, day-to-day operations at the farm were effectively being run by a member of the security staff, because she was one of the only steady figures left on the property. Security, managing cultivation at a state-licensed medical operation. You could not write satire this sharp if you tried.

The rest of the leadership — CFO Jacob, executives Belinda and Ty — visited the farm once or twice across the entire period. Their whole product line was molding, sulfured, and running on a skeleton crew, and they made one or two appearances.

Laulusa was the exception. After the cuts, she began showing up at the farm regularly — and what she talked about over lunch was not dehumidifiers. That conversation connects this farm directly to the documents in Part 1, and it gets its own installment.

The Question

The source carries real guilt over the product that went out the door, and came to us because, in their words, it is their way of doing what’s right. Be clear about who the workers are in this story: they were handed buckets and told to work. The people who cut the crew, approved the sulfur, and stayed downtown own every bit of what happened at that farm.

Now ask the only question that matters. The Department of Health held every inspection power it needed over this facility. Either nobody looked, or somebody looked and did nothing — while the state spent that same stretch at the Capitol, arming Act 269 with criminal penalties, seizure, and forfeiture aimed at the hemp shops down the street.

Somebody was watching, all right. They were watching the market share!

An investigation into how Hawaiʻi’s licensed cannabis industry responded when competition began taking its customers—and what its own workers are now revealing about the system those companies were defending.

There is a version of the past two years in which nature simply took its course and Hawaiʻi’s licensed cannabis companies lost fair and square.

Eight companies hold every dispensary license the state had issued. In this version, just as in reality, they had the regulators, the patient registry, the political access, and an entire legal structure built around them, yet customers still left for hemp stores that stayed open later, required no doctor or state card, and sold products Congress made federally lawful in 2018.

In December 2025, a report commissioned by the Department of Health quantified the loss: hemp retailers had captured approximately 31 percent of Hawaiʻi’s combined cannabis and hemp market. Experts assert that the number is even much higher in reality!

That is the version in which the licensed companies accepted the verdict of the marketplace and learned how to compete.

But unlike reality, that is unfortunately not what happened. These entities could not accept things as they were and chose not to react as they morally, lawfully, and ethically should!

Where the War Reached Me

I built Oʻahu Dispensary and Provisions openly. We paid taxes, obtained insurance, employed local workers, and operated under the federal hemp framework Congress created through the 2018 Farm Bill.

Then Hawaiʻi enacted Act 269, attaching criminal penalties to the state’s hemp regulations, including potential prosecution, seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of inventory.

Congress had removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. Hawaiʻi responded by applying a different standard and placing the threat of handcuffs behind it. The same product could be lawful elsewhere and treated as contraband in Honolulu.

So I sued. In Alyas v. Lopez, a federal judge is now deciding whether Hawaiʻi can criminalize what Congress legalized. Before the court ruled, the state announced that enforcement would begin on July 1, 2026.

The state did not need to padlock our doors to inflict damage. Once the government declares that products may be seized and their sellers prosecuted, inventory becomes commercially toxic. Customers retreat, employees fear for their jobs, suppliers hesitate, and banks and landlords begin treating the business as though it may not survive.

We removed the disputed products, closed temporarily as a protective measure, and later reopened with inventory compliant with the state’s demands.

That was where the war reached me.

The Eight

Eight licensees do not constitute an open industry. They constitute a state-protected market.

When hemp businesses captured nearly one-third of that market, the licensed companies faced a choice. They could lower prices, improve access, extend their hours, and compete.

Or they could change the law.

This series follows the documentary record of which option was chosen.

On February 27, 2025, Rep. Scot Matayoshi, the chairman of the Hawaiʻi House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee emailed Karlyn Laulusa, the chief executive of Noa Botanicals, one of the eight licensed companies, about pending legislation:

“The bill I developed with you is still moving.”

That sentence is not rumor. It is a public record produced by the government under Hawaiʻi’s open-records law. It is also not the language of a legislator merely receiving public testimony. It is the language of collaboration: a committee chairman describing legislation he developed with the executive of a company that stood to benefit when the law was later directed at competing hemp businesses.

That legislation became Act 269.

Public records also show attorney Paul Alston forwarding lists of hemp businesses to the office of Attorney General Anne Lopez. The state’s chief legal office was receiving organized information identifying participants in the competing market.

I am not interested in burying the significance of those records beneath polite language. They suggest that companies losing market share sought government power against competitors they could not defeat through ordinary commerce.

And Noa is not even the entire story. It is simply the company whose correspondence is presently the best documented. Hawaiʻi has eight licensed cannabis companies, all confronting the same 31 percent loss and all benefiting from the same restricted system.

Then the Workers Began Calling

The licensed companies controlled the licenses, the public narrative, and much of the political access. What they did not control were the people who worked inside their facilities.

Those workers are talking. And quite a bit!

Current and former employees have described an industry far removed from the clean, tightly regulated image presented to the public and press.

Misconduct, abuse, theft, lies, unsanitary practices, collusion, corruption. These vile actions and practices, and more, are just the mere tip of the iceberg!

By the way, that’s only from one source, and reflecting one experience at one recent point in time.

We’ll delve into that one, and many, many more, in the rest of this series!

Lance Alyas

Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

I knew the legislation better than the bureaucrats enforcing it.

I knew absolutely nothing.

The law on paper is a sterile collection of testing methodologies and forfeiture provisions. The law in practice is the human wreckage I have navigated for the past two weeks. You need to see it.

It starts with the slow bleed of my business. My employees are leaving—good people who built this place with their bare hands. They are walking away not by choice, but because no one can plan a future around a paycheck the state might criminalize next month. I don’t blame a single one of them. I wrote their final checks with my jaw clenched, furious at a system that made their livelihoods illegal overnight.

Then came the calls. My personal cell is unlisted, yet it rings nonstop. Elderly customers. Veterans. Cancer patients mid-treatment. Frightened and confused, they all ask the same impossible question in a hundred different voices: What am I supposed to do now?

I have heard more grown adults cry on the phone in the last two weeks than in my entire life combined. I have listened to cancer patients weep over losing the one thing that allowed them to eat, sleep, and simply exist through chemotherapy. They are weeping to a shop owner. Why? Because the Department of Health refuses to take their calls.

When the phones weren’t enough, they started coming to my home.

Desperate people tracked down my personal address and showed up at my front door because they had nowhere else to turn. Let that sink in. The state’s enforcement regime is so spectacularly broken that terrified patients are treating a retailer’s porch like a triage tent in a war zone.

A father arrived with his young daughters in tow. He holds a firearm license to protect those girls. Standing in my doorway, he laid out the impossible ultimatum the state has engineered for him. The Supreme Court might have just ruled he can legally keep his guns, but the ATF’s background check still forces him to confess to a federal crime if he uses medical marijuana—meaning the bureaucratic trap is still firmly set. His choice? Surrender his Second Amendment rights by refusing to put his name on a government registry, or forfeit the only treatment that gives him his life back. He wasn’t even angry; that’s what broke me. He was just hollowed out, calculating this brutal arithmetic out loud in front of his children.

Two days later, another man stood in that exact same spot and wept. Three years sober. Three years off opioids—the drugs with an actual body count, the ones tearing this state apart. Hemp is what pulled him from the abyss, and hemp is what kept him out. Through his tears, he told me he already knows how this ends for him. He wasn’t being dramatic or making threats. He described his impending relapse the way a meteorologist describes a hurricane rolling in—inevitable, destructive, undeniable. With a stroke of a pen, the State of Hawaii handed him back to the demon that nearly killed him.

I want every official who touched this policy to understand one immutable fact: I am not dealing in hypotheticals. I am dealing with my doorstep.

You didn’t just regulate a product category. You severed lifelines for cancer patients mid-treatment. You forced a father to choose between his family’s safety and his own physical survival. You shoved a sober man back to the edge of a cliff he spent three years crawling away from. You did all of this with a sterile press release and a July 1 effective date. And then you went to your own homes.

I bear witness to this devastation because it finds me where I live. It is time you saw it, too!

Lance Alyas owns Oahu Dispensary and Provisions and is the lead plaintiff in Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035, District of Hawaii.

Many people have understandably been quite confused about the exact nuances of the new hemp laws and, by extension, the central issue in our lawsuit against the government. It’s actually far simpler and more straightforward than one would expect, and when the problem is broken down to its roots, it becomes truly clear just how absurd, outrageous, and improper this entire fiasco has been.

Like all similar such laws, the ones at issue here criminalize certain products based on the measurement of some factor or element. More specifically, the state looks at the product in question and assesses the characteristics present. If you have a bag of powder, it looks towards the presence of certain elements to determine if it is flour and thus perfectly fine to possess or, if in fact the elements confirm it is cocaine, thereby making it a serious crime to possess.

One would think they’d logically do the same with hemp. It makes sense, after all. But they don’t!

Hawaii new laws don’t look to see if the product one has is hemp. They’re not testing for the traits and elements that chemically constitute the plant. Rather, they test what that hemp plant would feature and become IF and ONLY IF someone puts heat to it! It tests what your hemp could become in an oven. Let me prove how crazy that is — with a cookie recipe.

Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grab a mixing bowl. We’re going to break the law without changing a single thing.

First, three facts. That’s all you need.

Fact one. Raw hemp flower doesn’t get you high. The stuff in the jar contains a molecule called THCA. THCA does nothing to your brain. You could eat it like a salad and feel nothing.

Fact two. Heat changes it. Put THCA in an oven and it turns into delta-9 THC — the molecule that does get you high. That’s the whole reason edibles get baked. No heat, no high.

Fact three. Congress legalized hemp in 2018 and drew one clear line: delta-9 THC under 0.3%. Delta-9. The actual molecule, measured as-is. Congress did not say “delta-9 plus anything that might turn into delta-9 someday.”

Hawaii ignored that line and drew its own. Hawaii’s labs take your flower, heat it first, convert the harmless THCA into delta-9, and then measure the result. The state doesn’t test your product. It tests a cooked version of your product that the state itself created.

Now let’s bake.

Step one. Look at your hemp flower. Right now it’s legal. Federal law says so. Delta-9 under 0.3%. Done.

Step two. Grind it up. Still legal. Smaller pieces, same plant.

Step three. Slide it into the oven. Heat converts the THCA into delta-9. And here’s Hawaii’s entire enforcement program in one sentence: the state says your flower was illegal all along — because of what an oven could do to it.

Step four. Mix your cookie dough, bake twelve minutes, and think about that. The State of Hawaii wants to seize, destroy, and criminally prosecute the raw flower. The thing on the shelf. The thing that hasn’t been near an oven.

By that logic, grapes are wine. Sugar plus yeast plus time equals alcohol — so raid the Foodland produce aisle! Flour is bread. Barley is beer. We don’t regulate things based on what they could become. Except, apparently, in Hawaii.

It gets worse.

In 2023, the Hawaii Legislature — the people you elected — passed Act 263 and legalized smokable hemp. That was the Legislature’s call to make, and they made it.

Then the Department of Health banned it again. Not the Legislature. An agency. By its own rule. An agency erased a law that elected lawmakers passed.

Agencies don’t get to do that. That’s a big part of why I’m in federal court: Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035, District of Hawaii. Judge Otake is deciding right now whether any of this holds up.

Then, the corrupt powers that be even had the nerve to go to the Legislature, find a spineless puppet like Rep. Scot Matayoshi, and give these DOH rules teeth by creating criminal penalties for violation of these outrageous standards!

Literally jailing people for countless products not because of what they themselves actually are, but because of what they’d become if you baked them or put a lighter to them.

Lance Alyas owns Oahu Dispensary and Provisions and is lead plaintiff in Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035 (D. Haw.).

In 2018, Congress legalized hemp. Defined it chemically — 0.3% delta-9 THC — signed it into law, made it legal in all fifty states. Hawaii read that statute and substituted its own chemistry, declared products Congress legalized to be contraband, and on June 23 announced it would enforce that against businesses like mine.

Maybe you don’t care about hemp. That’s understandable. Hell, you may even oppose it ardently. That, too, is acceptable—we live in a free country, after all. But states picking and choosing which federal laws they deem worth following is not remotely okay. In fact, it is a disastrous experiment America has seen before, the results of which fill the most shameful pages in the national scrapbook!

In 1832, the Supreme Court told Georgia its laws had no force in Cherokee territory. Georgia ignored the ruling, nobody made it comply, and the price was the Trail of Tears — roughly four thousand men, women, and children dead on a forced march. That's state nullification at full scale. Nobody loses a court case. They lose everything.

After Brown v. Board, Prince Edward County, Virginia chose to shut down its entire public school system rather than integrate — and kept it shut for five years. White kids got vouchers to private academies. Black kids got nothing. And in 1957, Arkansas deployed armed National Guard troops to block nine Black teenagers from a high school; it took the 101st Airborne to walk children past a mob. If you think that era ended, ask Alabama — which in 2023 openly refused a direct Supreme Court order to redraw its congressional map, until a federal court took the pen away.

Now here's where Hawaii enters the story — because ten days ago, the Supreme Court of the United States told you everything you need to know about how this state treats federal law.

In 2024, the Hawaii Supreme Court dismissed binding Second Amendment precedent with the line that "the spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons" — citing the HBO drama The Wire as authority. Hawaii then kept enforcing a law making it a crime for licensed permit holders to carry onto any private property open to the public without express permission.

On June 25, in Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court struck that law down, 6-3, as a violation of the Second Amendment. And the majority went out of its way to answer the Aloha line directly: the Second Amendment cannot yield to the spirit of Aloha any more than it yielded to the spirit of the Big Apple or the Windy City — it applies the same way in the fiftieth state as in the other forty-nine. Worse: among the historical laws Hawaii offered to justify itself was a statute from Louisiana's Black Code — and the Court said that tainted artifact "cannot be taken seriously" as evidence of what the right to bear arms means. To defend defying the Constitution, this state reached for the legal machinery of racial oppression. That happened. Not even two damn weeks ago.

As if this weren’t shocking enough, pay attention to the case caption. Wolford v. Lopez. As in Anne Lopez — Hawaii's Attorney General. The same shameless, inconsistent, and wretched Anne Lopez named in my case. On June 25 the Supreme Court dismantled her defense of one state law defying federal law. On July 2 — seven days later — her office stood in federal court in Honolulu defending another one. Different case, same blatant lack of respect or regard for federal. God willing, the same outcome for both!

Yet the hypocrisy runs even deeper! While Hawaii criminalizes hemp — which Congress legalized — the same state licenses eight dispensaries selling marijuana, which remains federally illegal. It bans what Congress permitted and blesses what Congress prohibited. No theory of federalism explains both moves. Only one thing does: the state protects the businesses it has chosen and destroys the ones it hasn't. In Honolulu, federal law isn't a rulebook. It's a costume — worn when useful, dropped when not.

History teaches one last thing. Nullification never costs the officials who order it. Orval Faubus, the Arkansas governor who sent armed troops to keep nine Black children out of a public high school in open defiance of federal court orders, was never punished for it. His voters in fact nauseatingly rewarded him with six terms. The officials of Prince Edward County, Virginia who padlocked every public school in their county for five years rather than obey federal desegregation law died comfortably in their beds, never held to account for the generation of children they left without an education.

And Hawaii just lost at the Supreme Court, yet every official who built that unconstitutional law collected a paycheck the next morning, including Anne Lopez! That is the constant across two centuries of states defying federal law: the bill never lands on the government. It lands on the governed — the kids locked out of their schools, the families forced down the road, the permit holder made a criminal, the shopkeeper with empty shelves.

Lance Alyas

Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

That said, we must address what was broadcast, because the details matter.

The “Always Illegal” Fabrication
During the segment, Department of Health spokesperson Andrew Goff claimed our smokable and vape products have “always” been illegal under Hawaii law. This isn’t a legal gray area; it is a verifiable falsehood, and the proof lives on his own department’s website.

The ban on inhalable hemp was never passed by the Hawaii Legislature. It came from a DOH interim rule enacted on August 9, 2021. By definition, an interim rule is a temporary agency mandate—the exact opposite of longstanding law. Crucially, a rule taking effect in 2021 cannot retroactively outlaw a product before 2021 existed.

You cannot ban what is already forbidden. If a ban was required in 2021, the products were legal beforehand. The calendar does not lie, even if the State does.

What should alarm every Hawaii citizen is this blatant abuse of power. An unelected agency bypassed the Legislature to unilaterally criminalize entire categories of federally legal products. That isn’t law enforcement; that is a rogue bureaucracy writing its own laws and treating law-abiding citizens as criminals.

The “Protect the Children” Charade
Then there is Representative Scot Matayoshi, hiding behind the most cynical shield in politics: “protecting the children.”

That claim collapses under the slightest scrutiny. The independent business owners he is trying to bankrupt have real families with real children. Those kids rely on this revenue for food, rent, and survival in one of the most expensive states in the country. How does driving a family into financial ruin protect the children inside it?

It doesn’t. Destroying a household mathematically guarantees harm to the kids inside it. “Child safety” is just a convenient costume designed to mask the intentional destruction of working families to clear the market for a protected few.

If safety were the true objective, the state would focus on testing, dosing, age-gating, and labeling—safeguards responsible operators already champion. Instead, the only “solution” offered is the total eradication of competition. That tells you exactly what they are protecting, and it isn’t children.

The Coordinated Squeeze
Look at the full picture: the DOH, the Attorney General, a shielded oligopoly of licensed cannabis operators, and compliant politicians are collectively suffocating Hawaii’s independent hemp industry. Unable to outcompete us in the marketplace, they went looking for a win by rigging the rules in back rooms.

They have inflicted profound damage. They have jeopardized everything we built and dealt heavy blows to our families. I won’t pretend it doesn’t hurt. It does.

But wounded is not finished. Bloodied is not beaten.

We are standing our ground, and we will see them in court—where political theater falls apart, facts govern, and “always illegal” crashes straight into a calendar that proves otherwise.

Lance Alyas,

Founder, Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

ODP provides federally lawful, hemp-derived products protected under the 2018 Farm Bill. This suspension is not due to any wrongdoing on our part; it is the direct result of sudden, coercive enforcement threats from the Hawaii Department of Health and Attorney General aimed squarely at lawful products.

The timing is no coincidence. This suspension comes just 24 hours before our July 2 appearance in federal court to seek a preliminary injunction halting these actions. Throughout this litigation, the State consistently argued that ODP faces “no harm” because there was no active enforcement. That was their entire defense.

Then, on June 23, the State abruptly reversed course, publicly announcing immediate statewide enforcement beginning July 1. The same officials who assured a federal judge we faced no harm manufactured that exact harm just days before our hearing.

Because of these aggressive threats, we cannot sell our core products without exposing our staff and customers to state retaliation. The State’s defiance of federal law has rendered lawful inventory unsellable overnight, inflicting massive, immediate economic damage on our business. This is the exact, irreparable harm we are asking the federal judge to prevent.

This is no longer a hypothetical argument in a legal brief. It is happening in real time.

The abrupt timeline forces small businesses across Hawaii into an impossible choice: risk aggressive state action, or pull lawful products from the shelves and gut their own revenue. The State deliberately built this trap, and every independent operator is currently caught in it.

We will take the evidence of this immediate, state-inflicted harm directly to the judge on July 2.

To our customers: we intend to reopen our retail locations following the hearing, operating within whatever legal framework the court establishes. We remain steadfastly committed to providing safe, reliable access to the Honolulu community we built this business to serve.

Lance Alyas,

Founder, Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

Yahoo News has now covered my Hawaiʻi hemp lawsuit after Reason Magazine and Reason News reported on the case.

That is a major moment.

For months, I have been speaking out about what is happening to Hawaiʻi’s hemp industry, CBD retailers, and small cannabis-adjacent businesses. I am Lance Alyas, founder of Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions, a federally compliant hemp and CBD retailer with four locations in Honolulu and Waikīkī.

My business operates in the legal hemp industry. We sell hemp products, CBD products, hemp-derived cannabinoid products, topicals, tinctures, powders, and other federally compliant hemp items sourced from licensed suppliers and backed by testing documentation.

Now, Hawaiʻi is preparing to enforce harsh new hemp regulations that could threaten retailers, destroy inventory, shut down small businesses, and reshape the entire Hawaiʻi hemp and CBD market.

Reason Magazine covered this issue. Reason News brought national legal and policy attention to it. Then Yahoo News picked up the story.

That means this is no longer just a Honolulu business issue.

This is now a national hemp industry story.

Yahoo News and Reason News Brought National Attention to Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Crackdown

The headline says what small hemp businesses in Hawaiʻi have been warning about:

“Lawsuit Argues Hawaii’s Harsh New Hemp Regulations Will Stifle Competition.”

That headline matters because it gets to the core of the issue.

This lawsuit is not only about one business. It is about whether Hawaiʻi can use hemp enforcement, cannabis regulation, and state licensing power to crush federally compliant hemp retailers while protecting a small group of state-licensed medical cannabis dispensaries.

Reason Magazine and Reason News helped explain why this matters beyond Hawaiʻi. Yahoo News helped amplify it to a much larger audience.

That matters for every small business owner, hemp farmer, CBD retailer, cannabis policy advocate, consumer, and entrepreneur watching what states are doing after the 2018 Farm Bill created a legal national hemp market.

I Built Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions Under the Federal Hemp Framework

I founded Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, to serve the legal hemp and CBD market.

We are not hiding. We are not operating in the shadows. We are a real Hawaiʻi small business with retail locations, employees, leases, inventory, customers, tax obligations, compliance documents, testing paperwork, suppliers, and a public brand.

Our customers include local residents, Waikīkī visitors, CBD consumers, hemp consumers, wellness customers, and people looking for legal hemp alternatives.

We built this business around the federal hemp framework created by the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp so long as it contains no more than 0.3% delta-9 THC by dry weight.

That law created a national hemp industry.

It created opportunities for hemp farmers, CBD brands, hemp manufacturers, testing labs, distributors, logistics providers, and retailers like Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions.

Now Hawaiʻi’s new hemp rules and enforcement actions threaten to undermine that entire framework.

Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Enforcement Begins July 1

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health and the Department of the Attorney General have announced that statewide hemp retail enforcement begins July 1, 2026.

For Hawaiʻi hemp retailers, that date is critical.

The state has warned that enforcement may include administrative penalties, fines, product embargo, seizure, destruction of noncompliant hemp products, and civil action.

For a small business, that is not just regulation.

That is survival.

For a Honolulu hemp retailer like Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions, the threat of inventory seizure or forced closure is not theoretical. It affects employees, landlords, suppliers, customers, and the entire local hemp economy.

That is why Reason Magazine, Reason News, and Yahoo News covering this story is so important.

The public deserves to know what is happening before small businesses are destroyed.

This Is About Hawaiʻi Hemp, CBD, Cannabis Competition, and Small Business Rights

Hawaiʻi has a limited medical cannabis dispensary system. Only a small number of state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed to operate.

Hemp retailers like mine operate outside that closed medical cannabis licensing system.

We serve a different market: legal hemp, CBD, federally compliant hemp products, and hemp-derived products sold through retail channels.

But that competition appears to have become a problem for powerful interests.

Reason’s coverage discussed the tension between Hawaiʻi’s medical cannabis dispensary industry and independent hemp retailers. It also discussed how communications from the medical cannabis industry raised concerns about hemp businesses operating in the state.

That is exactly why this case matters.

When government regulation threatens small hemp businesses while benefiting a protected cannabis licensing system, the public deserves answers.

When a state appears to use hemp enforcement to reduce competition against medical cannabis dispensaries, the public deserves transparency.

When a legal hemp retailer in Honolulu faces possible product seizure, inventory destruction, and forced business disruption, people deserve to know why.

My Lawsuit Challenges Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Laws and Regulations

My federal lawsuit challenges Hawaiʻi’s hemp laws and regulations because I believe they violate constitutional protections and conflict with the federal hemp framework.

The lawsuit raises serious legal issues, including:

Hawaiʻi’s restrictions on federally compliant hemp products

The effect of Hawaiʻi hemp laws on interstate commerce

Whether the state can punish businesses that relied on federal hemp law

Whether the rules are clear enough for businesses to understand and follow

Whether small hemp businesses are being denied fair treatment and due process

Whether Hawaiʻi is using hemp regulation to protect medical cannabis dispensaries from competition

This case is about the future of legal hemp in Hawaiʻi.

It is about whether CBD retailers, hemp shops, and small cannabis-adjacent businesses can survive in Honolulu, Waikīkī, Oʻahu, Maui, Kauaʻi, and across the islands.

It is about whether the 2018 Farm Bill actually means anything when a state decides to crush the hemp market after businesses have already invested.

Why Reason Magazine and Yahoo News Coverage Matters

Reason Magazine and Reason News covering my story matters because Reason focuses on civil liberties, government overreach, free markets, regulation, and individual rights.

That is exactly the framework this story belongs in.

This is not just a cannabis story.

This is not just a CBD story.

This is not just a Hawaiʻi politics story.

This is a story about government power, small business survival, hemp law, cannabis competition, economic liberty, regulatory fairness, and due process.

Yahoo News picking up the Reason article matters because it brings the story to a much broader audience.

Now people outside Hawaiʻi can see what is happening here:

A small business built under federal hemp law is facing harsh state enforcement.

A legal hemp market is being squeezed.

A limited medical cannabis system appears to benefit from restrictions on hemp competitors.

Consumers could lose access to hemp and CBD products.

Employees could lose jobs.

Retailers could lose inventory.

Business owners could lose everything.

That is why national coverage matters.

Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Industry Is at a Breaking Point

Hawaiʻi’s hemp industry is not just one shop or one lawsuit.

It includes hemp retailers, CBD stores, local entrepreneurs, workers, customers, suppliers, farmers, wellness brands, and consumers across Oʻahu and the neighbor islands.

In Honolulu and Waikīkī, hemp and CBD retail stores serve both local residents and tourists. Hawaiʻi’s visitor economy, wellness market, cannabis culture, and hemp industry all overlap.

But harsh enforcement could push legal hemp retailers out of business and leave consumers with fewer options.

That is not consumer protection.

That is market destruction.

A fair system would regulate hemp responsibly. It would set clear rules. It would allow compliant businesses to operate. It would focus on age verification, testing, labeling, packaging, and safety.

Instead, Hawaiʻi’s approach threatens embargo, seizure, destruction, and forced closure.

That is why I am fighting.

This Is About Competition

One of the most important words in the Yahoo News and Reason headline is competition.

Hawaiʻi’s medical cannabis market is limited. Hemp retail is more open. That means hemp businesses compete with state-licensed dispensaries for some consumers.

Competition is supposed to benefit the public.

Competition lowers prices. Competition creates access. Competition gives consumers choices. Competition encourages better service, better products, and better innovation.

But when government regulation is used to eliminate competition, the public loses.

Small businesses lose.

Consumers lose.

Only protected incumbents win.

That is why this lawsuit is bigger than Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions.

This case is about whether Hawaiʻi will allow fair competition in hemp, CBD, and cannabis-adjacent markets — or whether the state will protect a small group of licensed cannabis businesses by crushing the independent hemp industry.

July 1 Enforcement. July 2 Court.

The timing is urgent.

Hawaiʻi hemp enforcement begins July 1, 2026.

My court date is July 2, 2026.

That means the future of Hawaiʻi’s hemp industry is being tested right now.

This is the moment when small hemp businesses, CBD retailers, cannabis consumers, civil liberties advocates, free market supporters, and anyone who cares about government overreach should be paying attention.

I never wanted this fight.

I wanted to build a lawful business in Honolulu. I wanted to serve customers. I wanted to create jobs. I wanted to operate within the hemp laws created by the 2018 Farm Bill.

But when the state threatens my business, my inventory, my employees, my leases, my customers, and my future, I have no choice but to fight back.

Thank You to Reason Magazine, Reason News, and Yahoo News

I want to thank Reason Magazine and Reason News for reporting on this case and explaining why Hawaiʻi’s hemp crackdown matters.

I also want to thank Yahoo News for picking up the story and helping bring national attention to what is happening to hemp retailers in Hawaiʻi.

This issue deserves national attention.

Hawaiʻi’s hemp enforcement is not just local news. It is a warning to every hemp business in America.

If a state can encourage entrepreneurs to rely on federal hemp law, allow a market to grow, and then later threaten seizure, destruction, and closure, every hemp and CBD business in the country should be concerned.

The 2018 Farm Bill created a legal hemp industry.

Now Hawaiʻi is testing whether that industry can survive state-level enforcement designed to restrict it.

I Will Keep Fighting for Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Industry

I am Lance Alyas, founder of Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions.

I am a Honolulu hemp retailer. I am a Hawaiʻi small business owner. I am part of the legal hemp, CBD, and cannabis-adjacent industry.

And I am fighting because I believe Hawaiʻi’s hemp crackdown is wrong.

I believe small businesses deserve due process.

I believe consumers deserve access.

I believe legal hemp businesses deserve fair treatment.

I believe competition should not be destroyed by regulatory pressure.

And I believe the public deserves to know exactly what is happening.

Thanks to Reason Magazine, Reason News, and Yahoo News, more people now do.

This fight is not over.

July 1 is enforcement.

July 2 is court.

And I will keep fighting for Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions, for Hawaiʻi’s hemp industry, for CBD retailers, for small businesses, and for everyone who believes the government should not be allowed to destroy legal businesses to protect politically favored competitors.

Lance Alyas
Founder, Oʻahu Dispensary & Provisions
Lead Plaintiff, Alyas v. Lopez
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

I run a hemp business in Honolulu. Four retail locations, a workforce, leases I’ve personally guaranteed, and an inventory of products that are legal under federal law — every one of them sourced from licensed suppliers and tested to the standard Congress wrote into the 2018 Farm Bill. I did everything the law asked of me. On July 1, the State of Hawaiʻi is going to start treating that as a crime.

On June 23, the Department of Health and the Attorney General announced that statewide enforcement against hemp retailers begins July 1, 2026. Embargo. Seizure. Destruction of inventory. Civil injunctions. Forced closure of retail locations. A date certain, in writing, from the State itself.

Here’s the part they’re hoping you don’t notice. A federal judge is scheduled to rule on whether that exact enforcement regime is constitutional on July 2 — the very next day. My case, Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035, has been pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaiʻi for months. The hearing on my motion to stop this enforcement, and on the State’s motion to throw my case out, is set for July 2. The State knows that. And it has chosen to start seizing and destroying federally legal product on July 1 — one day before the court can rule. It is not waiting for the court. It is moving to act before the court can stop it.

I want to be precise about what the State admitted in its own announcement, because this is not my characterization. It is theirs.

The State now lists hemp flower, pre-rolls, and vape products as “prohibited product categories.” Remember, Hawaiʻi’s own Legislature legalized those products in 2023 through Act 263. The elected representatives of this state voted to repeal that prohibition. The Department of Health did not like the result, so it is reinstating the ban by press release — a ban the people’s lawmakers struck from the books. That is not how this works. An agency does not get to overrule the Legislature because it prefers the old rule. That is the heart of my case, and the State just put it in writing for me.

The State is also going to enforce its own homemade definition of legal THC against products that pass the federal test. Congress set a national standard for what counts as hemp. Hawaiʻi invented a different one, and it is now moving to seize and destroy products that are legal everywhere else in the country because they fail a test Congress never wrote. That is one state trying to nullify a federal law, and it is the reason this case matters far beyond my four stores.

And it does reach beyond my stores — beyond Hawaiʻi entirely. The announcement makes clear that out-of-state sellers who ship federally legal hemp into Hawaiʻi are swept in too. Register with Hawaiʻi, or stop serving Hawaiʻi’s customers. A state is reaching across its own borders to control commerce in a product that federal law made legal. That should concern anyone who cares about whether states can wall themselves off from the national market one “definition” at a time.

The announcement is dressed up as a routine registration deadline. Pay your fifty dollars, file your paperwork. But the regime behind that friendly language carries consequences that go well past fines and forms, and the statute reaches a great deal further than the press release lets on.

I didn’t break any rules. I followed them — the rules as Congress actually wrote them. Every product I carry was tested and compliant. Every supplier I bought from was licensed. I built a legitimate business, in the open, in full compliance with federal law, and the State of Hawaiʻi is preparing to take it apart the literal day before a judge can tell them whether they’re even allowed to!

The hearing is July 2, 2026, before the Honorable Judge Jill Otake, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaiʻi, on my motion for a preliminary injunction and the State’s motion to dismiss. The State’s announcement is public in the Department of Health newsroom. Read it for yourself. Then ask why a government so confident in its authority is in such a hurry to act one day before a court can review it.

I’ll be in that courtroom on July 2. I’d rather be in my stores, doing the legal business I built, but I can’t be. The State is forcing the choice. Fortunately, the court will decide whether it had the right to. The same court the State audaciously disrespects, but with authority nonetheless!

A few months ago, I received a message from someone I had never met. They weren’t seeking attention. They weren’t looking for credit. In fact, they wanted exactly the opposite. They wanted to remain anonymous.

What they provided was a tip.

At the time, I had no idea how significant that tip would become.

What followed was months of investigation, public records requests, document analysis, and conversations that would ultimately uncover information far more significant than I ever expected. The deeper I dug, the more questions emerged. Every answer seemed to lead to three more.

What started as a single lead soon grew into hundreds of pages of records.

Emails.

Government communications.

Industry correspondence.

Timelines.

Names.

Connections.

Patterns.

The kind of information that often remains buried unless someone is willing to spend the time and effort to follow the trail wherever it leads.

And it all started because one person decided to step forward.

Regardless of your views on hemp, cannabis, government regulation, or any of the individuals involved, there is a larger principle at stake.

Transparency matters.

The public deserves to understand how policies are developed, who influences them, and what conversations take place behind closed doors before decisions affecting businesses and citizens are made.

The role of whistleblowers in that process cannot be overstated.

Throughout history, some of the most important revelations have not come from powerful institutions. They have come from ordinary people who witnessed something they believed the public deserved to know.

Without that anonymous source, much of what I have uncovered may never have become public.

That reality has stayed with me throughout this investigation.

It is also why I am writing this today.

Because I know there are others.

There are government employees who have seen things that concern them.

There are industry insiders who know information the public has never heard.

There are individuals sitting on documents, emails, and evidence that could help complete the picture.

If that is you, I want you to know something:

You are not alone.

If you have information relevant to government accountability, public policy, regulatory actions, or matters affecting Hawaii’s citizens and businesses, I encourage you to reach out.

Every major investigation starts somewhere.

Mine started with one whistleblower.

The next chapter may start with another.

I heavily urge any industry professionals, politicians, and similar level individuals to come forward and provide any tips you can about corruption the Hawaiian hemp industry, the government, and any corruption that may be going on. Thank you

Secure contact: lancea2026@proton.me

The truth only comes to light when people are willing to shine a flashlight into the darkness.

Lance A

There are moments when a stack of documents changes everything.

For me, that moment arrived when I obtained government records showing what was happening behind the scenes while Hawaii lawmakers were advancing legislation that would ultimately devastate much of the state’s hemp industry.

The documents tell a story that deserves public scrutiny.

And it begins with a simple fact:

Google ranked our business #1.

Not because we were politically connected.

Not because we had special licenses.

Not because we received government favors.

We earned that position the old-fashioned way: by serving customers, collecting reviews, investing in marketing, and building a business that consumers chose to support.

That success appears to have attracted the attention of powerful competitors.

The Email That Changes Everything

On January 23, 2025, Hawaii Representative Scot Matayoshi introduced House Bill 1482.

That bill would later become Act 269—the law now being challenged in federal court.

What happened next is remarkable.

According to records obtained through Hawaii’s public records process, Karlyn Laulusa, CEO of Noa Botanicals, contacted state officials the very same day.

In those communications, my company was specifically identified.

The reason?

Because we were highly visible.

Because we were competing.

Because consumers were finding us.

The documents include references to our business’s Google rankings and online presence. Rather than celebrating consumer choice and market competition, the communications focused on eliminating what was viewed as a problem.

The problem wasn’t public safety.

The problem was competition.

Follow the Timeline

The sequence of events matters.

A restrictive hemp bill appears.

Industry insiders begin communicating with regulators.

Specific competitors are identified.

Lists are exchanged.

Meetings are requested.

Government enforcement intensifies.

And eventually, legislation is enacted that dramatically benefits one group of market participants while severely harming another.

Readers can decide for themselves whether that sequence is merely coincidence.

But it raises questions that deserve answers.

Questions about influence.

Questions about fairness.

Questions about who government is really serving.

Hawaii’s Hemp Industry Wasn’t a Threat to Public Safety

One of the most important facts often missing from this discussion is that Hawaii’s hemp industry was not some tiny fringe market.

The state’s own commissioned cannabis market analysis estimated that consumers were spending millions of dollars every month on hemp-derived products.

That represents a massive amount of consumer demand.

Consumers were voting with their wallets.

They were choosing products.

Choosing businesses.

Choosing alternatives.

In a free market, that’s how competition works.

But when an industry gains enough market share to threaten entrenched interests, something else can happen.

Those interests can attempt to change the rules.

Competition Is Supposed to Be Won in the Marketplace

Every business owner understands competition.

If another company has better prices, improve your prices.

If another company has better service, improve your service.

If another company ranks higher online, improve your marketing.

That’s capitalism.

What’s not supposed to happen is using political influence to achieve what couldn’t be achieved through competition.

When businesses begin lobbying for laws that destroy competitors rather than protect consumers, the public deserves to know.

When government officials receive complaints that specifically identify competing businesses, the public deserves to know.

When regulatory power appears to align with private economic interests, the public deserves to know.

Transparency is not optional.

It is essential.

The Federal Lawsuit

Those concerns are now at the center of ongoing federal litigation.

The lawsuit challenges Hawaii’s hemp restrictions and raises serious constitutional questions regarding due process, regulatory authority, and the state’s treatment of businesses that relied on prior law.

The case is about more than hemp.

It is about whether government can change the rules after businesses have invested millions of dollars, hired employees, signed leases, and built legitimate operations.

It is about whether politically connected interests should be allowed to influence outcomes behind closed doors.

And it is about whether small businesses receive equal protection under the law.

Why This Matters Beyond Hemp

Even readers who have never purchased a hemp product should care about this story.

Because today it is hemp.

Tomorrow it could be another industry.

Another entrepreneur.

Another local business.

Another group of consumers whose choices become inconvenient for established interests.

The principle remains the same.

Government should not be used as a weapon against competitors.

Laws should be written to protect the public—not to protect market share.

And regulators should serve citizens—not special interests.

The Receipts Exist

For months, many people dismissed concerns about what was happening in Hawaii as speculation.

The records tell a different story.

They show communications.

They show timelines.

They show who was talking to whom.

And they show that some of Hawaii’s most powerful cannabis interests were actively focused on businesses like mine while legislation was moving through the system.

That deserves scrutiny.

That deserves accountability.

And that deserves public discussion.

The public can review the evidence and reach its own conclusions.

As for me, I intend to continue asking questions.

And I intend to continue fighting.

Not because it’s easy.

Not because it’s profitable.

But because no business should have to wonder whether its biggest competitor is trying to beat it in the marketplace—or in the halls of government.

The fight continues.

And now the public can see why.

Lance Alyas

Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

National cannabis publication Ganjapreneur has now joined the growing list of media outlets covering my federal lawsuit against the State of Hawaii over its hemp regulations and enforcement actions.

The article, published June 3, 2026, highlights the legal battle between Oahu Dispensary & Provisions and Hawaii officials over laws and regulations that have effectively eliminated much of Hawaii’s federally compliant hemp market. According to the lawsuit, approximately 80% of the products my company previously sold became illegal under Hawaii’s current regulatory framework.

For a small business owner, this isn’t just another court filing.

It’s a fight over whether state agencies can redefine federal law, criminalize previously lawful commerce, and destroy businesses that relied on Congress’s definition of hemp under the 2018 Farm Bill.

Why This Hawaii Hemp Lawsuit Matters

At the center of the dispute is a simple but important question:

Can a state agency impose a different definition of hemp than the one established by Congress?

The federal 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp containing no more than 0.3% Delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis. However, Hawaii’s regulatory approach has relied on a “total THC” interpretation and additional product restrictions that go far beyond federal requirements.

The lawsuit argues that Hawaii’s system creates a conflicting regulatory framework that effectively criminalizes products that remain federally lawful. It also challenges enforcement mechanisms that can result in product seizures, destruction of inventory, business penalties, and substantial financial harm.

This case is not merely about one business.

It raises broader questions involving:

• Federal preemption

• Interstate commerce

• Due process rights

• Administrative agency authority

• Hemp industry regulation

• Small business protections

National Media Attention Continues To Grow

The Ganjapreneur feature follows coverage from multiple outlets that have reported on the legal challenge and Hawaii’s evolving hemp regulations.

What began as a local dispute has increasingly become part of a national conversation regarding hemp-derived cannabinoids, THCA products, regulatory overreach, and the future of the post-Farm Bill hemp industry.

Across the country, businesses are challenging state-level restrictions, and courts are being asked to determine where the boundaries lie between federal hemp protections and state regulatory authority. Similar legal disputes have emerged in multiple states as regulators attempt to tighten restrictions on hemp-derived products.

The Stakes For Hawaii Businesses

For many Hawaii hemp retailers, distributors, and consumers, the consequences are significant.

Businesses have invested substantial capital into inventory, storefronts, employees, marketing, and compliance systems based on the federal legal framework established by Congress.

When regulatory interpretations change after those investments have been made, the impact can be devastating.

The lawsuit argues that businesses deserve clear rules, fair notice, and constitutional protections before their products are rendered illegal and their livelihoods placed at risk.

Beyond Hemp: A Question Of Government Accountability

Regardless of where someone stands on cannabis policy, this case ultimately raises a larger issue:

Should government agencies be permitted to create restrictions that exceed what lawmakers enacted?

That question extends far beyond hemp.

It affects every regulated industry and every business owner who relies on predictable rules to operate.

Federal courts will ultimately decide the legal merits of these claims, but the growing public interest demonstrates that many people recognize the importance of the issues involved.

Read The Ganjapreneur Article

I appreciate Ganjapreneur for bringing national attention to this case and helping inform the broader cannabis and hemp community about what is happening in Hawaii.

As this litigation moves forward, I will continue providing updates, court filings, media coverage, and analysis regarding the lawsuit and its implications for hemp businesses, consumers, and constitutional rights. I’m in it for the long haul.

Lance Alyas

Oahu Dispensary and Provisions

$6.17 million per month in hemp sales.

Thirty-one percent of the entire cannabis market.

Think about what that means. Nearly one out of every three cannabis dollars spent in Hawaiʻi is being spent outside the State’s eight-license dispensary system. That’s not a rounding error, and it’s not a niche corner of the market. It is a massive share of consumer demand.

This isn’t my number or an industry estimate. It wasn’t pulled from a trade publication or an advocacy group. It comes from the State’s own consultant, working under contract for the agency that regulates the market.

That’s what makes it so revealing.

A Receipt, Not a Catalyst

The report didn’t start the State’s enforcement campaign against hemp businesses. That was already underway.

What the report does show is exactly what those businesses represent: competition.

It shines a bright light on questions of motivation, interests, favoritism, and market protection. It puts hard numbers on what regulators have been seeing in the marketplace all along. For the first time, the scale of that competition is quantified in black and white.

Consumers are choosing hemp.

Not the black market. Not anonymous sellers operating in the shadows.

They are choosing transparent storefronts that sell tested, labeled products out in the open. They are choosing businesses that publish certificates of analysis, identify themselves to regulators, and operate in plain view of the public.

Whether regulators like that outcome or not, it reflects a clear consumer preference.

To the consumer, that’s a choice.

To a protected industry, that’s a threat.

The report becomes a receipt. It confirms that millions of dollars every month are bypassing the system the State spent years building around just eight license holders.

Despite limited competition, enormous barriers to entry, and a market effectively closed since 2016, consumers are still sending 31% of their dollars somewhere else.

The State’s own data shows that a substantial portion of the market is finding value outside the framework the government spent years constructing.

That’s a reality no regulator can ignore.

The State’s Answer

And what is the State’s response?

Not more competition.

Not a broader marketplace.

Not a serious examination of why consumers prefer these products.

There has been no effort to expand licensing opportunities, reduce barriers to entry, or ask why consumers are voting with their wallets in such significant numbers.

Instead, pressure remains focused on the very businesses capturing that market share.

The businesses operating openly become the easiest targets precisely because they have storefronts, employees, inventory, and public identities. They aren’t difficult to find. They are already standing in the light.

That’s why the $6.17 million figure matters.

Not because it proves why any single decision was made, but because it reveals the economic reality sitting behind the debate. It provides context that was missing before. It shows what is actually at stake in the fight over hemp.

The Department of Health paid to learn where consumers are spending their money.

The answer came back clearly:

31% of the market is choosing something outside the State’s preferred system.

For a regulatory structure built around a small number of license holders, that’s an extraordinary finding. It helps explain why hemp has become such a focal point in Hawaiʻi’s cannabis policy debate.

The Question

Read the report.

Then ask yourself a simple question:

When the interests of consumers and the interests of the eight-license system diverge, which one does the Department choose to protect?

The State’s own report may have already provided part of the answer.

Lance Alyas

ODP LLC

President Donald J. Trump

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, D.C. 20500

Mr. President,

Thank you for the job you are doing for this country! You are fighting for working families, for American farmers, and for small business owners who have been forgotten by Washington for decades. The country owes you more than it knows. The world, in fact, does too!

My name is Lance Saher Alyas. I am a Chaldean American, and I own Oahu Dispensary and Provisions LLC in Hawaii, a hemp business operating in full compliance with the federal delta-9 THC standard you established when you signed the 2018 Farm Bill. That signature created the modern American hemp industry from zero. Hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions in economic activity, and millions of families across every state depending on it.

I am writing because that very industry and those it supports are under coordinated attack, and the next decision in front of you is bound to be one of the most consequential of not just your second term, but your entire presidency.

The State of Hawaii adopted rules that conflict directly with the federal standard you signed into law. That conflict forced me into federal court to defend my right to operate under your Farm Bill, in active litigation, Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035 (D. Haw.). Legal experts following the case are confident I’ll prevail. Yet even a win there will be hollow once Section 781 hits. The same political machine that opposes you on everything else is betting you will not step in to protect your own policy.

That’s because Section 781 of the Continuing Appropriations Act takes effect November 12, 2026, less than six months from now. When it does, the conflict that destroyed countless businesses in Hawaii will be replicated against every hemp business in America. Every farmer, every processor, every retailer, every trucker, every packager, every lab technician, every small business owner in every state whose paycheck comes from this industry will be facing what I am facing now. This $30 billion industry and virtually all others connected to it will not survive without your direct intervention.

Millions of families are watching. Millions of livelihoods depend on it. Millions of Americans built their lives on a federal standard you created, and they are praying the man who signed it into law will defend it now.

Mr. President, you literally built this industry. It’s fitting, then, that only you can defend it, and you have the authority as President to do so.

Thank you again for everything you have done and everything you are still doing for this country. I am one small business owner among millions asking you, the man who legalized hemp, to defend what you built.

Don’t let your signature die on your watch.

God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

Lance Saher Alyas

Owner, Oahu Dispensary and Provisions LLC

Plaintiff, Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035 (D. Haw.)

Target just put intoxicating hemp THC beverages on shelves in nearly 400 stores across Florida, Texas, Illinois, and Minnesota. Five milligrams. Ten milligrams. The kind of can you grab off a cooler shelf next to a Celsius and walk to the register without a second thought.

Same products. Same lab tests. Same interstate supply chain running through every state in the country — including Hawaii, where Act 269 is written to treat those exact cans as felony contraband.

Think about what that means. The product didn’t change. The chemistry didn’t change. The certificate of analysis didn’t change. Hawaii changed the law — specifically, Hawaii changed the testing methodology used to define what counts as hemp. Not the federal standard. Not Congress’s standard. Hawaii’s own invented standard, applied through HAR Chapter 11-37, using a post-decarboxylation “total THC” calculation that the 2018 Farm Bill never authorized any state to impose as a criminal enforcement trigger.

So the same can that rings up clean at a Target register in Tampa triggers inspection, seizure, forfeiture, destruction of inventory, and criminal prosecution in Honolulu. Not because the product is dangerous. Not because it fails federal law. Because Hawaii rewrote the definition of hemp to protect the regulated medical cannabis industry from competition — and their own legislative record says so.

That’s not regulatory caution. That’s regulatory capture dressed up as public safety!

The state put a target on the backs of retailers and consumers alike. Small business owners who followed federal law, sourced compliant products, maintained certificates of analysis for every batch, and built livelihoods around a federally legal industry — now facing the threat of criminal prosecution for selling the same product Target is rolling out in four states this week.

That’s why we filed. That’s why we’re not going away.

Alyas v. Lopez, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, No. 1:26-cv-00035 is a live federal case challenging Hawaii’s Act 269 and the administrative rules that implement it. The legal question at the center of the case — whether a state can substitute its own testing methodology for Congress’s delta-9 THC standard and use that substitution to re-criminalize federally lawful hemp — isn’t just a Hawaii question. It’s the question every hemp business in America is going to face. Hawaii is just eight months ahead of the rest of the country.

We stood up…because someone had to!

If your products complied with the 2018 Farm Bill, you could operate legally.

Then came Hawaiʻi.

What started as a federally compliant hemp business in Waikīkī evolved into one of the most aggressive state-level enforcement campaigns in modern hemp history — involving multiple agencies, coordinated raids, regulatory reinterpretations, mounting taxpayer-funded litigation, and what many are now calling a direct constitutional collision between federal hemp law and state enforcement power.

And now, that battle sits in federal court.

Alyas v. Lopez may become one of the most important hemp lawsuits in America.

Because this fight is no longer just about one business.

It is about whether states can quietly rewrite federal hemp law through bureaucracy after Congress already legalized hemp nationwide.

Hawaiʻi’s Hemp Crackdown May Be the Blueprint Other States Are Preparing to Copy

Across the United States, hemp operators are watching something dangerous unfold:

• Texas attempting “Total THC” restructuring

• States pushing intoxicating hemp bans

• Agencies using administrative rules to redefine legality

• Regulatory bodies trying to erase years of legal commerce overnight

• Federally compliant businesses suddenly treated like criminal enterprises

Hawaiʻi became one of the clearest examples.

The State claims this is about “public safety.”

But buried in Hawaiʻi’s own legislative documents is language suggesting something very different:

Protection of licensed marijuana businesses from hemp competition.

That statement appears in Standing Committee Report 1817 — a document now cited directly in federal litigation.

And once that entered the court record, everything changed.

They Tried a Sting Operation First

According to the federal complaint, enforcement did not begin with legislation.

It began with targeted operations.

The expectation appeared simple:

Pressure the business.
Create fear.
Force closure.

Instead, the opposite happened.

More locations opened.

More customers arrived.

And the conflict escalated.

Soon, multiple agencies allegedly began appearing in rapid succession — different uniforms, different departments, same pressure campaign.

One week it was one agency.
Then another.
Then another.

Until federal court became unavoidable.

Alyas v. Lopez: The Federal Hemp Lawsuit That Could Redefine State Authority

The lawsuit now pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaiʻi raises constitutional questions that extend far beyond Hawaiʻi tourism districts or Waikīkī storefronts.

The case challenges whether a state can:

• Redefine federally legal hemp through administrative rules

• Use “Total THC” standards to criminalize products Congress legalized

• Target interstate hemp commerce

• Retroactively reinterpret legality after years of allowing operations

• Use regulatory enforcement to economically shield licensed cannabis industries

At the center of the dispute is the argument that Hawaiʻi effectively changed hemp law without Congress ever changing federal hemp law.

That distinction matters enormously.

Because the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp federally using a specific statutory definition centered on delta-9 THC concentration.

Not “Total THC.”

Not future hypothetical conversion calculations.

And not administrative reinterpretations years later.

The Hemp Industry Is Watching Hawaiʻi Closely

This case arrives during one of the most volatile periods in hemp history.

Search trends for:

• “THCA legality”

• “2018 Farm Bill hemp loophole”

• “Total THC hemp ban”

• “federal hemp lawsuit”

• “hemp preemption”

• “state hemp crackdown”

• “intoxicating hemp regulation”

have exploded nationwide.

Millions of dollars are flowing through the hemp market while states scramble to control products that federal law arguably still protects.

That tension has created chaos across the industry.

Some businesses closed immediately under pressure.

Others relocated.

Others entered litigation.

And now Hawaiʻi sits at the center of the constitutional battlefield.

The Real Human Cost of Hemp Enforcement

This story is not only about statutes and agencies.

It is about customers.

Veterans.
Kupuna.
Cancer patients.
People struggling with sleep, pain, anxiety, PTSD, inflammation, and addiction alternatives.

For many consumers, hemp products became accessible precisely because they did not require entry into Hawaiʻi’s tightly controlled medical marijuana system.

That accessibility created competition.

And competition created political pressure.

Now the people caught in the middle are the consumers who relied on those products most.

Taxpayer Dollars vs. One Small Business

One of the most controversial aspects of the case involves the scale of state resources allegedly deployed against a single hemp operator.

According to public filings and related reporting, multiple government lawyers, agencies, and administrative resources became involved over months of litigation and enforcement activity.

Meanwhile, the business owner funding the federal challenge is allegedly paying privately out of pocket.

That imbalance has become a major public narrative surrounding the case:

Can a state spend massive taxpayer resources attempting to shut down federally compliant hemp commerce while simultaneously claiming the products were “always illegal”?

And if they were always illegal — why were these businesses openly operating for years?

Those are questions federal court may eventually force the state to answer under oath.

Why This Case Could Impact Every Hemp Operator in America

The significance of this lawsuit extends far beyond Hawaiʻi.

If the State prevails:

• Other states may attempt similar “Total THC” reinterpretations

• Administrative agencies may gain broader power to reshape hemp legality without Congress

• Hemp commerce nationwide could face massive instability

If the plaintiffs prevail:

• Federal preemption arguments could strengthen nationwide

• State hemp bans may face increased constitutional scrutiny

• Hemp operators across America could gain a roadmap for litigation

That is why attorneys, regulators, cannabis operators, lawmakers, and hemp businesses across the country are quietly watching this case.

Because the ruling may influence the future structure of the entire hemp economy.

Hawaiʻi May Have Triggered a National Constitutional Fight

This is no longer just a local business dispute.

It is becoming a test of:

• federal supremacy,

• interstate commerce,

• due process,

• administrative overreach,

• and the future of federally legal hemp itself.

The irony is impossible to ignore.

Congress legalized hemp in 2018.

Now businesses are allegedly being forced to spend millions defending that legalization against the very governments that allowed the industry to exist in the first place.

That contradiction is exactly why this lawsuit matters.

And why the entire country may soon know the name:

Alyas v. Lopez

Follow the Case

Case: Alyas v. Lopez
Court: U.S. District Court, District of Hawaiʻi
Case No.: 1:26-cv-00035

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