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O Aloha County Council Chair Ayikaki and council Greetings to new council members and Mahalo for your attention to my testimony. What the county is doing is perpetuating a un -reviewed program and disobeying the county charter. RECEIVED n� --- pY----------- -- What the county should be doing is protecting the privacy rights of citizens. Dat y'Y ---- County Coundl Article I sect. 6 of the Hawaii Sate Constitution was enacted specifically to allow the private use of Cannabis in the home The county should prohibit the prosecutor and police from spending county tax dollars on cannabis crimes Rather should the prosecution of cannabis crimes be placed at the lowest order of priority especially with regard to the medical or religious use in the privacy of the home I will submit to the council a suggested resolution or ordinance requiring the Prosecution of cannabis crimes to be placed at the lowest order of priority only arresting someone on the occasion of other crimes thus freeing the police to concentrate on solving real crimes like the death of Dana Ireland. I have for your benefit supplied a number of pieces of information some of which is referenced in my testimony. Should any of you have any questions regarding this material please ask me. In the last meeting on mandatory program review I witnessed Prohibitionist and bureaucrats deliver a number of misconceptions and outright lies to the council and the public. The first such misconception is that eradication is necessary to increase the public safety Eradication has acted to drive the cost of Hawaii Cannabis from $100 to over 500 Dollars per ounce increasing the value to a cost greater than gold also increases the likely hood that greed driven profiteers might use violent means to secure their crop in 1989 when warren price was attorney general he pegged the value of Hawaii's Cannabis crop at 10 billion Dollars. What Hawaii drug law enforcement advocates failed to tell legislators is that the nearly 10 per cent of Hawaii Islands population who grew this cannabis were adding hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues through the 4% sales tax. The impact of green harvest was a short fall in state revenues that resulted in the budget cuts and raised taxes of the last four years. ODMM No. 73.1-5 File No. POS Ref. Tot Presented COOAc,�