You're correct Taipan that medical cannabis in Hawaii is a moneyed-guy game. You had to prove you have $1 mil ON HAND to even apply for a license. Not a business for aspiring, local entrepreneurs as in other legalized states.

As for opioids, your comment is so ignorant I wonder if you're just trolling for kicks.

From the CDC: "Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, and so have sales of these prescription drugs. From 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioids." This does not count heroin deaths, a great many which are due to lack of access to prescription meds. Accidental drug OD has surpassed traffic deaths.

Cannabis deaths? ZERO. 

Aside from pain relief, cannabis has many health benefits. Opioids? None.

As for its being federally illegal, there is no moral mandate for that. Prohibition is a racist policy: http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place