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day of June and every first day of December, from this day forward, with the first report being issued June 1, 2009. These reports shall include but not be limited to: the number of all arrests, citations, property seizures, and prosecutions for all Cannabis offenses in the county of Hawaii, the number of complaints regarding marijuana eradication over-flights; the breakdown of all Cannabis arrests and citations by race, age, specific charge, and classification as infraction, misdemeanor, or felony, the estimated time and money spent by the County on law enforcement and punishment for adult Cannabis offenses, and any instances of officers or deputies assisting in state or federal enforcement of adult Cannabis offenses. These reports shall be published with the cooperation of the County of Hawaii's Prosecuting Attorney, the Chief of Police, and all associated law enforcement staff in providing needed data. SECTION 9: NOTIFICATION OF LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS After the enactment of this Article, the County Clerk shall send letters on an annual basis (every June 1St of each year) to the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, the County of Hawaii voters' Congressional Delegation, Hawaii's U.S. senators, the County of Hawaii voters' representatives in the Hawaii State Legislature, the Governor of Hawaii, and the President of the United States. This letter shall state; "The citizens of the County of Hawaii have passed an initiative to make Cannabis offenses the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority, where the Cannabis is intended for adult personal use, and request that the federal and state branches of government remove criminal penalties for the cultivation, possession and use of Cannabis for adult personal use; the citizens also request that Cannabis policies here within the county of Hawaii be dealt with from our local law enforcement only." The letters may also state, be it the will of the County Council; that according to the 3 year study performed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more people used methamphetamine as a result of the marijuana eradication program; they may also express that methamphetamine is a growing problem in our community and more help would be appreciated in that area, and that the first action that would help in that area would be to end the marijuana eradication program. This duty shall be carried out until state and federal laws are changed accordingly. SECTION 10: STATUTORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION All provisions in this article shall only be implemented to the full extent that the Constitution of the State of Hawaii and the Hawaii Revised Statutes allows, and in the event, and only in the event, that a court of competent jurisdiction determines that any provision in any section of this article may not be directed by voter initiative or by action of the County Council, then that specific mandatory provision only shall be deemed advisory and expression of the will of the people that the provision shall be implemented into law by whichever government branch or official who has the power to implement it, and that the Hawai' i County Council shall take all actions within their power to work with those branches of government to express the will of the people and encourage, support, and request the implementation of those provisions.