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Anti -pot <br />efforts <br />boost <br />ice use <br />0 Marijuana prices <br />driven up; users <br />turn to crystal meth <br />By Chris Loos <br />Tribune -Herald <br />Marijuana eradication- in <br />Hawaii contributed to the <br />increase in the use of the drug <br />'lice," according to a govern <br />mcat study. <br />An aide to Mayor Harry Kim <br />is scbeduled to meet today with <br />study f <br />Nation- <br />al Institute on Drug Abuse. The <br />study gathered information <br />from 450 methampbetamine <br />us ms in H000hd ., San Francis- <br />co and San Diego. <br />"It's the first study ever done <br />that interviewed us« in the <br />comnumity," said study leader <br />Patricia Morgan. <br />Morgan, associate professor at <br />the Scbool of Public Health at the <br />University of California at Berke- <br />ley, was vacationing in Kona <br />wben sbc kcarned that Kim's <br />executive assistant, Billy Kenoi, <br />wanted to mea with her to dis- <br />cuss the report Kcnoi is helping <br />to organize a 'meth surrunit" on <br />the Big Island next month- <br />Morgan's <br />onthMorgan's 1994 report, some <br />200 pages long. found that the. <br />California methamphetamine <br />users were more likely to snort <br />or inject the drug. while 86 per- <br />cent of the Hawaii users <br />smoked the crystal form. <br />"Tire use of ice in Honolulu <br />had led to particularly serious <br />physical and psychological <br />problems and significant social <br />disruption in poor working <br />communities where it replaced <br />See ICE, <br />Page 8 <br />v Y'C <br />C <br />u vi c u E ape <br />u uux° a$'C3B °'U <br />Cp <br />E3^ ° 3 <br />°e= <br />=%= <br />cE _ > <br />p � > <br />'04 0�• 3 M'�cai� w.1.3V <br />a.. <br />I� <br />�3 F 1 <br />= o ,� � C J141i <br />a!.- <br />& U< B r <br />11.1 <br />OvvOp�00—��v� <br />•0 i 3a 0 4 m <br />E• raur 0---.�� � 5 <br />u u v <br />V u=�Q°uu° v�3� <br />° tou <br />•ate L C� mm3 hY = C-5 a7 C <br />Ems: v:._02 E <br />cc <br />et >� �_� a tZe° c v <br />.r <br />, u c c °° Oa E <br />cuu �cc �E p u p�•C u uC <br />uvua0o=w' -vEl c <br />L'r.vuEE•as <br />v= r.� m C X Z > <br />E f <br />f • m Com[- >t 000=2 <br />L <br />W Guc <br />00 _ p �,: E S 0=2c- uECE c <br />°= j m' E ass C'A p W f Ts C <br />U £ to <br />aaaa� ti E f `u a' r_ A LO <br />