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Feuot&o-l.giculturnl Ssrwcas lnc 1Q BOE-32B-9760 $1131197 62:31 PM 02111 product of the war on drugs. This is not a drug, it is a legal medicine. There has been no documented death from GHB and the use of GHB as a date rape drug is a myth with no basis. I would bet that in Hawaii County not one case of date rape with GHB has ever occurred. GHB can not be used effectively as a date rape drug because tt won't work on a full stomach and eating a ltttle food or candy or coffee rapidly negates the effects. Alcohol, on the other hand has always been the date rape drug of choice and has caused the death of hundreds of teens on this island. Do we need to make alcohol illegal? We tried that in the 20's and it failed - why do we think prohibition will solve this so called problem! GHB wtll be come more popular and available AhItK the ban! I believe the motivation behind this bill is to protect the alcohol beverage and Prozac market, because the first dose of GHB I took totally eliminated a 30 years craving for alcohol and I haren't wanted any since that first dose 7 months ago. GHB is the world's best natural anttdepressant and people are able to give up Prozac, and they use GHB in Europe to get people off of heroin and cocaine, many people in Hawaii are using it for the same purpose. Who's side is the Country Council really on? It is the job of the County Council to protect the rights of the citizens, not limit their rights. This law, if passed, will popularize GHB and put it into the hands of criminals and take it away from Doctors. Na law against drugs has ever stopped the availability, but usually enhances it. The Country Council is playing Into the hands of drug dealers and the police-state apparatus that operates to Hawatt. This btll is clearly wrong and motivated by powerful interests and not the desire to protect the utrrena, nhu wrll he ~unrerteU rntu ~r unrnuls ri rt pua~ea. the irony of the situation is that in a state with already over 349 of the people in prison are there for drug offenses, this non-drug nutrient can get people off of drugs arld be beneficial to all. If date rape is a problem then there are rape laws already. If the country find the it needs to prevent date rape with various drugs, it is clear that that using any drug including alcohol for attempted rape should be made a crime, assault with a drug or attempted rape. Punish the guilty not the 99.99a innocent, honest people who use GHB for health purposes on a daily basis on this island. This is an amazingly Draconian step for the county to make, when the only use of GHB has been beneficial to society on this island. I am not willing to see my tax dollars used to put more people into prison for the effect of their own nurotransmitters. The county should not become "brain police" and take mvay choices for Doctors. Safety Issues (From Joy and Mogenthaler 1995) As has been emphasized, the overall safety of GHB is well-established, and no deaths attributable to GHB have been reported over the thirty year period that this compound has been in use [Vickers, 1969; Chin and Kreutzer, 199Z]. In fact, as of 1990, only forty-six adverse reactions had been reported in the United States surely constituting only an uifinitestmal fraction of actual usage, all followed by rapid and complete recovery [Chin and Kreutzer, 1992]. Unlike a large proportion of other drugs including alcohol and even Tylenol, GHB has no toxic effects on the liver, kidney or other organs [Vickers, 1969; Chin and Kreutzer, 1992]. One program of sleep therapy using six to eight grams daily for a period of eight to ten days produced no side effects. Vickers [1969] even reports that doses as high as twenty to thirty grams per twenty-four hour period have been used for several days without negative consequences (don't do this at home kids!). In the Canadtan studtes of narcolepsy menttoned earlier, the nightly use of two to six teaspoons (one teaspoon equaling roughly Z.5 grams) for several years resulted in no reports of long-term adverse effects, or problems with issues of addiction or