And I should make a correction. We do have local varieties that can keep up with the popular mainland stuff. It's just not the classics of old.
On Maui we've got Skunkdog and variations of Skunkdog, Pog, HP13, Japanese Hashplant, Dog, The Blood and some other well known ones here. Any of those are great and would be way better to grow than Pua Mana/aaagrean/mauifire/Hawaii420427 gear and generally cheaper to acquire