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Hawaii’s first medical cannabis dispensaries did a bang-up business their first week, running out of stock amid long lines of waiting buyers. Read more

Hawaii’s first medical cannabis dispensaries did a bang-up business their first week, running out of stock amid long lines of waiting buyers.

Big story? Not so much. A quick scan of the Web indicates this state’s experience its inaugural week is pretty commonplace, both in states that sell only for medical use and for those that have opened up for recreational marijuana sales. For example, Nevada, new this year to legalized recreational pot, ran out after three days, its supply chain unable to meet the unanticipated demand.

What does this say for prospects here? Cha-ching.

Second time’s a charm for rocketing students

Nearly a year after a NASA rocket launch ended with the disappointing loss of their experiments, Hawaii college students got to celebrate success over the weekend. Sunday’s launch from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carried experimental payloads from 15 college institutions, including from four University of Hawaii community colleges — Honolulu, Kapiolani, Kauai and Windward.

The suborbital rocket took the experiments up 94 miles before they descended via parachute into the Atlantic Ocean and were retrieved. The experiments by the “Project Imua” students involved ejection of a naphthalene sublimation rocket and capturing images of the deployment; plus, evaluating a motion-­tracking device and taking distance data of the sublimation rocket using an infrared rangefinder. Smart kids.