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July 1, 1997 <br /> To -Hawaii County Council ca <br /> -a <br /> From - Virginia (Ginger) Towle phone 329-2051 pC7 c <br /> 75-5788 Nele Place fax 329-6721 C n r- <br /> Kallua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 L,c (.1 <br /> N 7 <br /> Subject ~ In support of Communication 314 (Resolution 94) ai5d ~ ~ <br /> Communication 369 (Resolution 116) to accept funds '.to ~ <br /> eradicate Mari3uamas ~ ~ <br /> D~ ~ N <br /> O <br /> Tt is Imperative that we accept the government funds to continue our <br /> efforts to eradicate the marihuana on this island. <br /> blhat many of us have always believed has now been substantiated by <br /> hard scientific data. This was reported by West Hawaii Today in the <br /> June 27th issue. Marihuana is not the innocent product that many <br /> people have tried to make us believe. It indeed can cause changes <br /> in the brain. 'Phese findings were made in a laboratory. Our neighborhood, <br /> our home communities are where we observe, where everyday we see, what <br /> is happening. This is our laboratory where we work with the children <br /> and we see the results of the mariJuana epidemics and it is the gateway <br /> to other drugs. This was proved to me 1n the 60s and 70s in the <br /> San Francisco Bay areas working in our schools trying to do something <br /> about the drug problems of those days. More than once T have been told <br /> that individuals got started on "pot". <br /> <br /> A sampling petition I did a short while ago. and gave to the Finance <br /> Committee, Illustrated that the community, the ma3ority. want mari3uana <br /> destroyed. Only approximately lOp of the people I asked to sign the <br /> petition to eradicate marlJuana declined. No one wants Hawall to become <br /> the vacation capital for the "pot heads" of the world. <br /> <br /> We will be de114uent in our responsibility to provide a safe healthy <br /> environment in which to raise our families if we do not m::ike every effort <br /> to eliminate mariJuana from this Ssland. <br /> The teen years are difficult enough without adding the additional problem <br /> of mariJuana, a seductive drug, which for many young people starts them <br /> <br /> down the wrong road. <br /> rr <br /> f~. <br /> Y., 3~`~~_ <br /> VIbG <br /> ~ Presented Wy11K,1~ <br /> Ref. Date JUL 0 2 1997 <br /> <br />