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~'I L L JOHN & RHONDA ROBISON June 1, 2007 Dear County Council: RE: MARIJUANA ERADICATION FUNDING Aloha Councilmembey! Thank you for the chance to space some thoughts and ideas with you I represent 1 of over 1,000 medirrl marijuana pat~ts bete oa the Biglsland. I am not in fawt of receiving tbe marijuana eradication funds 1 feel after 25 years of watching the police fly helicoprers(®600.00/hour), over residential aa'borhoods that it is and has been a waste of vahiabk: time ,man hours ,and above all money that I thiok wuki be better sport I would like to yak that a "coas_ttuctrve working group" wukl be established to help the wuncil better dteir kaowlulge so wpm decision making comes and it affects us ,the wuaal wtll be better equipped to decide things oa our behalf Ilad resolution 46-01 been falSlkd I probably wouldn't have to ask alas of you if for some reason the funds are received I feel that there shonkl be "DOABLE" stipulations should be placed on the receiving of the funds:l)zesidmtial areas should be a "NO-FLY-ZONE" . I fed that dte commercial growers aren't growing is residential nerborhoods, maybe indoors, but they dont aced a helicopter re fend these ones. ~ Estabish a working group ro help the wuncS with the medical side of things. Ia wnversatioa with some of you that caged me bads after I ca0ed , some of you really don't know this law but will try to guess wpm in discussion about it This htav pertains ro me directly and I do know this lass The reason why is that I was auested for a law that didn't even exist, by as over zealous police officer who infused to hear the truth. This county payed nu i30,000.00 fns pia unwilliogaess to obey this lava I have personally said that I will help eadt and every patient that is bulled by ktcal law enforcement Since that time some of the same officers raided Rev Dmois Sheilds home sad tried the same gazinge as him, only be is my clone fiimd and knew better . As wunty oflitials you need to be made aware of wuaty empkryeea that anent doing the job Properly sad would be considered a liabsTity. 3) Lowwer the priority on madjuwa in geae:al-ktw priority does not mean no priority Slow dower and lode at dtis oa a case ro case basis. With 1,040 of ns medicat marijuana patients here representing '/z this states total there NEEDS to be a highteaed awareness wad sensitivity. Resolution 46-01 was good years agq arnv it wukl be made betty for all iavofied. Oar mistake with 46-01 was we invited outsiders who daa't live here on the BebIsland into out business, let's keep it here at home and work together to make it betta4) Requite the police officers in this wunty to attend losses ro handle patimta- because after 3times I can tell you that they don't know what they are dating wpm it comes m this situation .Guessing is not good enough for me and hope you will join IDG ro hdp make it better for the Wert patient that has as eawunter with HCPD When 46-01 was created we avere also supposed ro get workshops with the Chief and Head of Vice-it never happened -thanks eo Aaron Chung We are making an effort to emnd our hand and help. I am currently is the 5'" of 6 years of highdose chemotherapy wad use this as medicine because of the non-addictive properties sad also I taken far too many pills and would rather save my liver and kidarya We will always in any ciicle have the 10% that try to get over on tbe system-but the rest of us are really struggling and don't need the added womes of the police dealings. Although I do think that there should be a way made so that patimte wukl hdp patients wpm someone is in need. It's not as easy ro grow as one might think. Wpm is between we need m squire it somewhere other than oa the street paying over ;500.00 for an ounce of medicine-1/2 that is fair the other'/z is goujirtg A lot of us are oa social security a~ cant afford to pay street market value. The eerrrent need of the patients here is 19516x. X 6,000.00 per pound=;1,170,000.00 as you can see if '/z the time we need to squire it, it would and is a wnsiderable number We need more than to heaz that you aze sypathic to nu~iral folks instead actions speak louder than wordaThank you for you rim e, Aloha John Robison II