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get loose and silly. I don't worry about kids experimenting with a little pot smoke because it really isn't addicting as much as it is enjoyable and relaxing. But I really worry a lot about kids trying crack and ice at parties, liking it, and getting hooked. We should stop lumping marijuana and crack and ice as equally dangerous, because doing that is dangerous. Doing that is minimizing the dangers of crack and ice in the minds of young people. On the other hand, continuing to demonizing mazijuana to children through programs like D.A.R.E. are making children skeptical of the honesty of the program. A great majority of parents enjoy smoking a joint once in a while, and most pazents do not wnvey a negative message to their children about dangers of marijuana because they themselves don't believe it is dangerous. So when children go to school and heaz about the dangers of marijuana, crack and ice, they aze skeptical to some degree about the honesty of the claim. The dangers of crack and ice seem to be downplayed as the police and DEA seem obsessed with mazijuana, which is regazded as quite hamiless by most experts, and even in the minds of most citizens who conclude that crack and ice aze much worse. Our drug rehabilitation facilities are woefully inadequate and useless for most addicts of addicting crack and ice who are left to roam the streets until arrested for some crime. Yet the friendly pot smoker is mercilously attacked. Most of the people I know can't believe that cigazettes are legal but marijuana isn't. For a lot of us, we don't enjoy the gassy smell of a lit cigazette. Thankfully, I gave up that bad habit because it caused me to have frequent tonsilitis, smokers cough and bad breath. Mazijuana smoke is much cleaner, without the additives they put in cigazettes that keep it burning to the end. It actually breaks up the phlegm in your lungs and is an expectorant. ff we can be honest, cigazettes aze much more dangerous and addicting than marijuana. The police aze at the mercy of unfair laws, and it would be wise to consider amending Hawaii Revised Statutes regazding marijuana so the police will be able to focus on more dangerous dnigs that aze easy to get and can be hidden because of lack of smell (such as smoking) which make them attractive to young people who have not been exposed to the truth of crack and ice, who do not know that it changes good people to bad. More and more people seem to have stories to tell of crack addicts in their families, and the destruction and damage it does, selling worldly possessions for the crack and ice habit. Marijuana never was as destructive. Then there are stories about the alcoholic who lost the urge to drink when he smoked, and became a nice mellow person rather than the obnoxious mean dnmk he once was. There aze some people who are really mean, ugly people who I wish would smoke marijuana before they hurt someone. The majority of people that I know who enjoy smoking marijuana don't drink, don't smoke cigazettes, and aze nice quiet law-abiding citizens. We want the right to smoke mazijuana as granted to us by the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted by Congress in Washington D.C. because according to the Bible, page one, on the third day, God created every herb bearing seed, and God saw that it was very good. That on the sixth day, "God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good." Genesis 1. I ask the Council to be realistic, to ponder why one branch of the Federal Government wants to prove itself stronger than the President and cause much hype and hysteria in people's quiet lives at a time when we aze having a hazd time surviving economically, and would be well served by supporting industrial hemp products--there aze so so many possibilities. Can the County Council comprehend the possibilities of happy people working in the fields, working in the factories, proudly making beautiful hemp products from the Big Island? Tourists would be delighted to buy our wares. What else could make more sense? Otherwise, besides the brainwashing of many nieve people into believing in the demonizing of the good marijuana plant, I hope that we will support the Legislature in their attempt to open their