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<br /> <br /> In fact, the ry theory of this progra; 3y be flawed. Lt. + <br /> <br /> Chai seems to have understood this when he testified in 1993 <br /> <br /> before the Finance Committee: "I don't think it's going to end <br /> <br /> right away because with the price of the marijuana being so high, <br /> <br /> people are going to try and I mean, they're going to make the <br /> <br /> attempt to grow the plants.",0 Certainly, these numbers show <br /> <br /> dramatic evidence of this. <br /> <br /> Statements from the police and from growers indicate several <br /> <br /> reasons for this decline: <br /> <br /> growing smarter; <br /> <br /> indoor growing operations; <br /> <br /> advance information. <br /> <br /> Outdoor growing, in response to Green Harvest, is simply <br /> <br /> smarter. Early in the 1980's, the police continually revised its <br /> <br /> estimates of the total number of plants growing on the Big Island <br /> <br /> with each large new harvest. Though this may have been merely an <br /> <br /> attempt to continue funding, if we take them at their word, this <br /> <br /> would indicate that growers were simply planting more marijuana <br /> <br /> to offset the amounts seized.41 Growers have stopped growing in <br /> <br /> large fields and no longer return to the same areas year after <br /> <br /> year according to police." Growers report they are growing in <br /> <br /> the tops of trees and have trained the plant to grow horizontally <br /> <br /> along the ground, producing a long runner and small buds every <br /> <br /> foot or so.4? <br /> <br /> Indoor growing operations are on the rise. In 1987, the <br /> <br /> police report, "We're finding more of them but we're finding it <br /> <br /> <br /> 12 <br />