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(Page 2) s and costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in Hawaii County alone each year. (g) The citizens of the Cities of Hailey, Idaho; Denver, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; Columbia, Missouri; Eureka Springs, Arkansas and Santa Barbara, Oakland, Santa Monica, and Santa Cruz, in California, and the citizens of Missoula County, Montana, all voted for Cannabis (marijuana) to be placed as law enforcement's lowest law enforcement priority within the past five years. Section 4: DEFINITIONS (a) "Adult" means any individual who is 21 (twenty one) years of age or older. (b) `Adult personal use" means the use of Cannabis on private property by adults, It does not include: (a) distribution or sale of Cannabis; (b) distribution, sale, cultivation, or use of Cannabis on public property; (c) driving under the influence; or (d) the commercial trafficking of Cannabis, or the possession of amounts of Cannabis in excess of the amounts defined as being appropriate for adult personal use.. (b) `Marijuana ",(as defined in the Hawaii Revised Statutes of Chapter 712-1240) means Cannabis. (c) "Cannabis" means all parts of the Cannabis plant, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the Cannabis plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or its resin. (d) "Lowest Law Enforcement Priority" means a priority such that all law enforcement activities related to all offenses other than the possession or cultivation of Cannabis for adult personal use shall be a higher priority than all law enforcement activities related to the adult personal use of Cannabis. The Lowest Law Enforcement Priority regarding possession or cultivation of Cannabis shall apply to any single case involving 24 (twenty four) or fewer Cannabis plants at any stage of maturity or the equivalent in dried Cannabis, where the Cannabis was intended for adult personal use. (e) The "dried equivalent" of 24 or fewer Cannabis plants shall be presumed to be 24 (twenty four) or fewer ounces of usable Cannabis, excluding stems and other non active parts. A greater amount may also fall under the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority provisions described herein if such amount is shown by competent evidence to be no more than the dried equivalent of 24 plants. Section 5: LOWEST LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITY POLICY RELATING TO THE ADULT PERSONAL USE OF CANNABIS ;a) The cultivation, possession and use for adult personal use of Cannabis shall be the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority for law enforcement agencies in the county of Hawaii. b) The County of Hawaii's County Council, the Police Commissioner, the Chief of Police and all associated law enforcement staff, deputies, officers and any attorney prosecuting on behalf of the County of Hawaii shall make law enforcement activity relating to Cannabis offenses, where the 2