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S ndav <br /> eta r-'O u I I etin &`Advertiser <br /> I MOMM-__ 11=1*097 <br /> Aloha� Hawaiilosingwar,is Sunday. <br /> March 5. 1989 <br /> •• �� Attorney of <br /> General Price values & out <br /> Hawaii by <br /> air <br /> Basketball Daily averages <br /> uH — 71 pot crop at $10 billion a year , <br /> really dried up."he said. <br /> p�.pA. 70 By Reiter Wright Related editorial,Page B-2 Cargo <br /> ��VV ��11GL�� 9 He proposed immediate crc- � <br /> lei.&u v.n It'it" Obs.) t <br /> �.�.. anon of a joint federal, state <br /> Hawaii's marijuana industry. "We are a major drug supple- and county task force to•devel- 1 <br /> out of control and overwhelm- er to the United States,and we op a plan and estimate the 1,821,366" <br /> Baseball ing law enforcement, can be should admit it. We don't like costs to implement it. <br /> _ destroyed by tracking down It. but it really got out of con- Specific tactics would proba- <br /> �H "— growers in the field and their trot very quickly,and we need bly include increased use of Mail <br /> couriers and shipments at air help." Price told The Adverts- dogs to Sniff for drugs in lug- (IbS.) <br /> .., and seaports, Attorney General er. gage and other air shipments. <br /> Ind. C}. 1 Warren Price said yesterday. Hawaii's isolation as an is surveillance of likely couriers 'jQ��159 <br /> J` Green Harvest" eradication land state makes R a likely with searches aulhonzed under <br /> —see Sports,Page C 1 �' .} efforts alone aren't "reducing, laboratory for a "border inter- warrants.and staking out mari- <br /> diction" drug-control program. juana patches to catch or track <br /> ii much less eliminating" the he said. <br /> marijuana industry.he said. growers"green-handed." Passengers <br /> "The bulk of the marijuana Similar stake out tactics by <br /> High-tech Capitol , Price said he is asking Feder- produced(m Hawaii) leaves by' rangers at Hawaii Volcanoes 87,972 <br /> t al drug enforcement czar Wil- air....Given sufficient funding National Park on the Big Is- <br /> ine Legislature will become a ham Bennett for money to help and/or assistance, Hawaii could land. coupled with stiff sen- - `-' - <br /> rot more'user friendly d a cou- intercept an annual marijuana be'shut down'to drug traffick- tenccs for growers by federal f`,,l <br /> pie of nigh-tech oriented state Attorney General Price crop that he valued at up to ing,and the enormous marijua- _ <br /> revreseotatives have their way It remy got out of oonbof' $10 billion. na industry could be econom See Hawaii, Page A-i <br /> Page A-7 <br />