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<br /> <br /> the enemy, but only "cheap" marijuana, as one councilmember <br /> <br /> claimed.10 The wealthy will still be able to afford it, but <br /> <br /> presumably they will not find the substance a problem.) Since <br /> <br /> the prices have fallen in the last three years, the present <br /> <br /> ideological purpose in 1996 is "management" and once again the <br /> <br /> problem is "growing and serious," the exact same language used to <br /> <br /> describe the situation in 1982." <br /> <br /> This shift in purpose allows for open-ended funding. <br /> <br /> Eradication has a definite ending point: "complete destruction." <br /> <br /> "Management" allows the program to be funded indefinitely. (This <br /> <br /> is often termed "mission creep," when the original mission is <br /> <br /> seen to be unobtainable and a new one is then substituted.) <br /> <br /> Two new purposes have recently been added to the program= <br /> <br /> to provide overtime for the county's police officers and <br /> <br /> "forfeiture of real property." <br /> <br /> Overtime is mentioned as a reason for voting for the program <br /> <br /> by both police officers and councilmembers during hearings. "Can <br /> <br /> I add something? A lot of the officers that we use during the <br /> <br /> eradication are on their days off, and we do pay them overtime <br /> <br /> with the funding money," opines Lt. Fukui.'2 The police <br /> <br /> department openly lists forfeiture as one of the "goals" of the <br /> <br /> program in answers to an annual questionnaire dubiously called <br /> <br /> the Program and Budget Review= 'GOALS:_... f. Forfeiture of real <br /> <br /> property connected with the possession, cultivation, sale, and <br /> <br /> distribution of marijuana."13 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 3 <br />