Definitions for adult personal use of cannabis

“Adult” means any individual who is twenty one years of age or older. “Adult personal use” means the use of cannabis on private property by adults. It does not include: (1) Distribution or sale of cannabis; (2) Distribution, sale, cultivation, or use of cannabis on public property; (3) Driving under the influence; or (4) The commercial trafficking of cannabis, or the possession of amounts of cannabis in excess of the amounts defined as being appropriate for adult personal use. “Marijuana”, (as defined in the Hawai‘i Revised Statutes of Chapter 712-1240) means cannabis. “Cannabis” means all parts of the cannabis plant, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the cannabis plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or its resin. SUPP. 1 (1-2017) 14-42 GENERAL WELFARE § 14-98 “Lowest Law Enforcement Priority” means a priority such that all law enforcement activities related to all offenses other than the possession or cultivation of cannabis for adult personal use shall be a higher priority than all law enforcement activities related to the adult personal use of cannabis. The Lowest Law Enforcement Priority regarding possession or cultivation of cannabis shall apply to any single case involving twenty four or fewer cannabis plants at any stage of maturity or the equivalent in dried cannabis, where the cannabis was intended for adult personal use. The “dried equivalent” of twenty four or fewer cannabis plants shall be presumed to be twenty four or fewer ounces of usable cannabis, excluding stems and other non active parts. A greater amount may also fall under the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority provisions described herein if such amount is shown by competent evidence to be no more than the dried equivalent of twenty four plants. (2008, ord 08-181, sec 4.) 14-98