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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> the use of methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and other hard drugs was related to the <br /> marijuana eradication program's implementation. <br /> <br /> (e) According to public record, the "mandatory program review" for the marijuana <br /> eradication program, required by Section 3-16 of the County Charter to be performed <br /> at least once every 4 years, has never been performed in the 30 years that the <br /> program has existed. <br /> <br /> (f) Law abiding adults are being arrested and imprisoned for nonviolent Cannabis <br /> offenses, clogging our court dockets, overcrowding our prisons, tying up valuable law <br /> enforcement resources and costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in <br /> Hawaii County alone each year. <br /> <br /> (g) The citizens of the Cities of Hailey, Idaho; Denver, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; <br /> Columbia, Missouri; Eureka Springs, Arkansas and Santa Barbara, Oakland, Santa <br /> Monica and Santa Cruz, in California, and the citizens of Missoula County, Montana, <br /> all voted for Cannabis (marijuana) to be placed as law enforcement's lowest priority <br /> within the past five years. <br /> <br /> <br /> SECTION 4: DEFINITIONS <br /> <br /> (a) "Adult" means any individual who is 21 (twenty one) years of age or older. <br /> <br /> (b) "Adult personal use" means the use of Cannabis on private property by adults. It <br /> does not include: <br /> <br /> (a) distribution or sale of Cannabis; <br /> <br /> (b) distribution, sale, cultivation, or use of Cannabis on public property; <br /> <br /> (c) driving under the influence; or <br /> <br /> (d) the commercial trafficking of Cannabis, or the possession of amounts of <br /> Cannabis in excess of the amounts defined as being appropriate for adult <br /> personal use... <br /> <br /> (b) "Marijuana", (as defined in the Hawaii Revised Statutes of Chapter 712-1240) <br /> means Cannabis. <br /> <br /> (c) "Cannabis" means all parts of the Cannabis plant, whether growing or not; the seeds <br /> thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the Cannabis plant; and every <br /> compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its <br /> seeds, or its resin. <br /> <br /> (d) "Lowest Law Enforcement Priority" means a priority such that all law enforcement <br /> <br /> <br /> 2 <br />