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Anti-pot efforts r pi SS c 3: as boost e w c c v+Yj 5 o3s~ E ice use 0 Marijuana prices' driven up; users s b~ turn to crystal meth By Chris Loos O 'e3 2 TriDrnx-Herald d v 41 3 Marijuana eraakatioa. in Hawaicontributed to the 3 a> 3 increase in the use of the drug Q u ° ~ I l . ~ f C~ ~y -ice: according to a govem-• > ~o meat study. i a An aide to Mayor Harry Kira is scbeduied ao meet ooda wi& a the ~ `dy for The ulo the n s ~.Is a al butitte on Drug Abuse The study gathered infortaadon o $ c +r from 450 methampbetamine users in Honolulu, San Francis-anal Ll co arid San Diego , $ - • ht•s the lust study ever done - s + Qt LEE that wtervicwed users in the O w 5 S community,- said study leader DUMB : S g $ g • _ Patricia MagaM usocu0e 3E g o professor at ' S u o ,r W the SdIool Of public Hcahh at the g 40 University of California at Berke' . C m ~7 ° g ~i YQg e p icy, was vacationing in Kona' 'a o = ~ 9 ° o < N ~'ot wbes sbe learned that Kim's u o eanntive assistant. Billy Kenoi, to W wanted to meet with her to dis- L o 2 ~ •-cc -21;g -.4 E ° ¦L 3 e at cuss the report Kenoi is helping ° u v ° • mV ° -y%~ i to organize a 'meth summit" on er v mS C o v u E r e the Big Island nest noottdt E E . a r 5 c- Morgan 's 1944 report, some /o~ cum - 2'0 E °L 200 pages long. found that the. W r FLU- a x° u t a E is 5 u California methamphetamine °'m a Y users were more likely to snort • • m e > .A u or inject the drug. while 86 per- ? ° + cent of the Hawaii users ~ a ° e = v r e smoked the crystal form. Vi c -e . t A$ c• e°o~ u E E t 'The use of ice in Honolulu . U. E N_ a t = ~ x t U E had led to particularly serious physical and psychological problems and significant social disruption in poor working communities when it replaced See ICE, Page 8