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~V L.~~~~~t~ HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN /SUNDAY, F1AY 14, 2006 dear prohibits®nssts: Please stop `helpsng' us Prohibitionists created, Look at the results. You supported and funded the have done more damage to Green Harvest marijuana Hawaii than all of our so- eradication program, which - ~ called enemies put together. caused a substitution factor of Terrorists? Osama bin Laden? marijuana users turning to North Korea? China? Russia? crack, heroin and crystal You prohibitionists ha~/e them meth, or "ice." Simple as that. beat by a mile. You couldn't Then you exported this failed " be bigger failures at protect- policy to other jurisdictions, : t ing us if you tried. which now also suffer ice epi- Gov. Linda Lingle, Lt. Gov. demics. If a criminal is one GATIIERIIVG Duke Aiona, state Narcotics who commits a crime or . Enforcement Division chief causes one to occur, you aze P~E'~' Keith Kamita, Big Island the biggest criminals in Mayor Harry Kim, Hawaii Hawaii history. Roger Christie County Councilman James How many of our children - Arakaki, Dr. Fred Holschuh, have you caused to be at- Larry Burnette and the Hawaii tracted to ice and crime? Who HE Associated Press High Intensity Drug Traffick- knows? You refuse to account now reports that co- ing Agency, just to name a for it in program reviews or Caine use is on the few, the community can't take any official studies or reports. rise on the Big Island your "help" any more. Now Who can blame you for that? I - again! I have a sincere mes- the Legislature has taken can. Too many of our neigh- sage for. all prohibition- away our precious constftu- bors and relatives rot in pris- minded citizens, lawmakers, tional right to privacy for our ons here and on the mainland, police, D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse electronic communications yet you're hoping to retire Resistance Education), the because of your -and their comfortably with big, fat pen- Drug Enforcement Agency and ~ -policy failures. Why should sions and cushy health bene- others who profit from the the good people of Hawaii be fits. failed war on drugs: Please made to suffer the loss of free- On your watch and because stop what you've foolishly dom for your prejudice and of your policies the people of and unconstitutionally been stupidity? Hawaii suffer for decades. No doing to us for decades. Give Hawaii used to be lovely. one gets fired for this, and you up and turn yourse]ves in for Marijuana cultivation and en- keep the failed programs go- treatment. Your addiction to a joyment was a key part of that ing. i will do my best to keep failed soc[al policy plus your loveliness. Prohibition de- shining a light on your malfea- continuous promotion of dis- stroyed it. You blew it. We all sance until this situation is information about cannabis is know that marijuana is at healed onceandfor all. killing Hawaii's right to pri- least medical, yet the Hon- Prohibitionists, you have vacy, domestic tranquility and olulu Police Department's stolen the liberty, the free- security. Your services aze no Web site still doesn't ac- dom, the health and the hope longer welcome. knowledge this fact. Mari- of our good people. Now we Juana is still scheduled in wantitback~ Hawaii law as having "no rec- Roger Christie is founder of the Why should the good people ognized medical value." How THCMinistry in Hilo,-Hawaii. of Hawaii 6e made to suffer can that be, six yeazs after the the loss of freedom for your medical use of marijuana be- prejudice and stupidity? came legal here?