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(G- l~~i ~1~ . ~L~~ Privacy and Cannabis in Hawaii THE PRIVATE USE OF CANNABIS IS LEGAL IN HAWAII!!! The State Constitution was amended in 1978 by the Constitutional Convention to include Section I article 6 which was taken from the Right to Privacy language from the Alaska State Constitution. Article I section 6 reads as follows: "The right of people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest. The legislature shall take affirmative steps to implement this right." The reason this was selected as the language to describe our right to privacy is because it was the intent of the framers of the Constitution to allow for the use of Cannabis in the home as is demonstrated by testimony from the floor of the Convention. Delegate Helene Hale, OPENLY said on the floor before the entire 102-member Delegation: "I introduced it [Art. I § 6] because the Alaska statute was held to say, in words like this, that it was perfectly all right to smoke marijuana in the privacy of your own homes " Even Delegate John Waihee saw the marijuana issue a foregone conclusion under Art. I 56, but added, "...this would not extend to manufacturing cocaine or heroin." Hawaii adopted Alaska's Constitution not the States of Washington or Arizona. As Delegate Hale expressly stated in front of all 102 delegates, "The reason 1 put it in [the amendment on privacy] was that it is almost the EXACT wording the Alaska Constitution has and it answers the question of Delegate Taketani from Maui, the right of a person to smoke marijuana in his own home. THAT was my reason for putting this proposal in." All civil Servants must uphold the State Constitution, this includes all law enforcement every lawyer and Judge as they are all officers of the court or Federal officers working in Hawaii and especially every legislator whether at state or county level must place at the highest order of priority on the protection of civil rights including the Constitutionally protected right to consume Cannabis in the privacy of our homes. Because the INTENT of the framers of the State Constitution was to recognize that the right to smoke Cannabis, in the privacy of ones own home, is so important that the State Constitution needed to be amended to provide language to specifically protect this right to privately consume Cannabis, it then becomes imperative that all State officials of all ranks (~ZD.Oi. 1~I0, ~_V >n>e >ra.~SG ~resen}~ 1 Die JUL 0 2 199y