This Hemp Dealer is fighting The State over ‘Fundamental Fairness’

The case raises questions about the extent to which government officials can make new laws with little public notice, then shut down businesses not in compliance.

October, Mark White came to Hawaii with the dream of setting up a business under a new state law allowing people to sell products derived from hemp, such as cannabis oil.

Nine months later, the rules on hemp were changed, White’s business, Pinky’s Hempire, was shut down by state officials, and his inventory was seized by state health officials and turned over to police.

“It crushed me,” White said of the June 24 raid by Department of Health officials. “It crushed me and my family.”