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Fridav, July 19, 2002 <br /> Letters to the Editor <br /> Green Harvest causes ice' epidemic, crimewave <br /> Aloha. Your editorial of July 8th is one for the record books. Since you praise it so <br /> highly, I dare you to report on the unintended('?)consequences ofyour island's <br /> mari <br /> j uana eradication program. <br /> Kauai has a raging "ice" epidem is and other negative social indicators all around and <br /> yet you pretend to wonder where they came from'? Duh! From the program you <br /> praise so highly, that's where! <br /> Just ask Dr. Patricia Morgan, Associate Professor of Public Health at U.C. <br /> Herkeley. Shedid the Hawaii study connecting the dots from marijuana eradication <br /> directly to the ice epidemic from 1991- 1994. Her telephone number is (510) 642- <br /> 4861. Heremail ismomorgan@uclink.berkeley.edu. <br /> Prohibition ofcannabis has CAUSED the hard drug epidemic, property crimes and <br /> worse on Kauai. Extreme prohibition of the natural and safest sacrament, medicine <br /> and THE all-round most useful plant ON EARTH has taken most ofthe cash <br /> liquidity out ofyour island economy over the last 12 years and CAUSED more <br /> personal, social, economic and environmental damage than anything but lava and <br /> hurricanes in history. I dare you to examine it. <br /> Your editorial view reminds me of the tone ofthe Taliban Ministry ofReligion who <br /> would spy on home sanctuaries and then deliver extreme and cruel sentences for <br /> gardening. Surely you can do better than that. <br /> Pakaloha, <br /> RogerChristie <br /> The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry <br /> I--Pilo <br /> <br /> htip..'iwww kauacworld com dtspla. inn_ednonals.edct0'_ tact Pie 1 0l' I <br /> <br />