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<br /> <br /> plants. " For the years 1982, 1983, and 1984, the police tied <br /> <br /> the total number of plants grown to the total number of plants <br /> <br /> seized, so that the one fluctuated as the other. 19 This <br /> <br /> produced a record high total estimate of plants grown on the Big <br /> <br /> Island of 4.5 million, or 40 marijuana plants for every man, <br /> <br /> woman and child on the Big Island. 20 In 1986 21 the police <br /> <br /> department lowered the estimated total number of plants grown on <br /> <br /> the Big Island to between 2.8 and 3.7 million. Graph # 5 shows <br /> <br /> the police department's estimates for total number of plants <br /> <br /> grown in the early 1980's. Graph # 6 shows both the total number <br /> <br /> of plants seized and the estimated total plants grown. In no <br /> <br /> year did the police department report harvesting more than 20 <br /> <br /> percent of the total. <br /> <br /> Curiously, the police department reports program success by <br /> <br /> number-of-plants-seized both when the figure is large and when it <br /> <br /> is small. 22 <br /> <br /> ? .t.r.eet.-p.r_? ce <br /> <br /> Street price cannot be used to provide evidence of success <br /> <br /> for a program whose intent is "eradication;" only complete and <br /> <br /> total elimination can do that. But street price can be used to <br /> <br /> give an indication of supply and thus the effectiveness of the <br /> <br /> police department's program in decreasing the supply and raising <br /> <br /> the price, if this is presumed to be the goal. <br /> <br /> The change in street-price from 1980 to 1996 is reflected in <br /> <br /> Graph # 3. Street-price was computed in four ways: <br /> <br /> statements of police officers to councilmembers; <br /> <br /> <br /> 5 <br />