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<br /> <br /> students" speaking of Kona intermediate and elementary <br /> <br /> schools. 34 This would indicate a very low price. <br /> <br /> This information is independently confirmed by the Hawaii <br /> <br /> Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which reports that use among high <br /> <br /> school students of Hawaiian home grown has increased since 1987 <br /> <br /> and that the "biggest rise was among 10th graders, with 24 <br /> <br /> percent reporting they smoked pot regularly in 1995, compared <br /> <br /> with 12.4 percent in 1987."35 <br /> <br /> d_.Prc_e__per__gram of THC <br /> <br /> This method of computing the price is based on the <br /> <br /> observation that consumers do not buy beer in order to drink the <br /> <br /> water; similarly, consumers do not purchase marijuana in order to <br /> <br /> smoke green vegetable matter. Frank Sua, retired Major from the <br /> <br /> Honolulu Police Department testified before the County Council <br /> <br /> that the THC content had increased over time from around 30 <br /> <br /> before Green Harvest to roughly 15 to 30% today.J6 If this is <br /> <br /> true, comparing bud from 1980 and bud from 1996 would be like <br /> <br /> comparing beer (5e alcohol) with whiskey (400), or Tide with <br /> <br /> Super-Concentrated Tide. If Sua's numbers are correct (they are <br /> <br /> disputed by some marijuana advocates), we must divide the present <br /> <br /> street-price of 300 an ounce by an average of 5 to 10, yielding a <br /> <br /> price per ounce of around 30 to 60 dollars an ounce for the same <br /> <br /> amount of THC. <br /> <br /> Interestingly enough, this compares with the 1996 street <br /> <br /> price of 25 to 50 dollars per ounce for a product, formerly a by- <br /> <br /> product, called "bud leaf."" Some consumers report that this <br /> <br /> <br /> 9 <br />