Hawaii said it will be the first state to require\u00a0marijuana\u00a0sales to be handled without cash, saying it wants to avoid robberies and other crimes involving dispensaries.<\/p>\n
Medical\u00a0marijuana\u00a0dispensaries in Hawaii won\u2019t be allowed to accept cash beginning Oct. 1 and will require people to use a debit payment app instead. The app is already an option for\u00a0marijuana\u00a0transactions in six states, including California and Colorado.<\/p>\n
Many\u00a0marijuana\u00a0businesses use cash because banks fear cannabis money could expose them to legal trouble<\/a> from the U.S. government.<\/p>\n The debit app called CanPay uses a Colorado-based credit union, Safe Harbor Private Banking, to facilitate<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Hawaii bans cash in medical marijuana dispensary sales<\/a> is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n
Hawaii said it will be the first state to require\u00a0marijuana\u00a0sales to be handled without cash, saying it wants to avoid robberies and other crimes involving dispensaries. Medical\u00a0marijuana\u00a0dispensaries in Hawaii won\u2019t be allowed to accept cash beginning Oct. 1 and will require people to use a debit payment app instead. TheContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1041,467,10,857,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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