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UPDATED: Many high-profile applicants including Woody Harrelson and Tetris-designer Henk Rogers didn’t make the cut.

Hawaii law requires the Department of Health to name its licensees on April 15, but the agency said it won’t meet that deadline.

One member of a panel to select eight companies to grow and sell medical cannabis has dropped out, and the state says it needs more fingerprinting information from applicants.

The state Health Department appoints five people to a panel that will have just four weeks to select eight winners from among 66 applicants.

The law requires the work to be done by April 15, but the Hawaii Department of Health still hasn’t formed the selection committee.

But will the state Health Department be able to keep up with the expected increase in applications once dispensaries open?

The Department of Health initially refused to identify who will serve on the selection committee. It issued additional policy details Friday.

Fifty-nine companies applied for eight licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Hawaii.

Hawaii Department of Health publishes the highly anticipated administrative rules for the program.

If upcoming rules preclude greenhouses, entrepreneurs would be forced to use vast amounts of electricity.