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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0102.001 2000-2002 1N THE TABERNACLES OF NATURE, GARDENS OF BEAUTY, WHEREVER TWO OR THREE GATHER, BEHOLD HE u LY OI ~R 41fUtiT Phone (808) 328-9794 Fax (808)328-9426 Mail P O Box 828 Kaawaloa Hawaii, 96704 r lECFNm Aloha Council By_ ~ Congramlauonsti ~ y L ~ Gounty t:ouncll~P-FG After decades of eradication effort the State ranks number one to the number of Cannabis plots eradicated in the Nation Over half of the Cannabis plots eradicated to the rnttre United States were eradtcated to Hawau but still many more thousands of Cannabis plants arc harvested by thetr growers each year and are reportedly fetching as much as 5700 per ounce on Oahu 771e niunbels are impressive. Out of 61,676 pot plots nationwide, 31,462 [51%] were eradtcated to Hawau, out of 3,205,056 plants found to the LISA 6?'• x?t plants [19 5%] were destroyedvi Hawatt this is big business for our local police a full employment ect for police a never rnding source of contraband that is worth the pnce of a small country because there has bern no program review ttus means that otu poltce arc handling over 5600,000,000 worth of contraband wuhout oversight tf you don't think this is unportant by the way what ever happened to the S50,000 dollars missing from the evidence n,om in Kona Stx hundred million tempting reasons to stray into corruption Tlus council should be highly concerned that not one otmce harvested through poltce seizure is introduced into the blacF, marAci Yet for years the folks m the street know and have reported such things as w•iinessing the green van bacA in the eighties which used to take buds and only buds away from the bum sight while the leaves and stems remained behind and were homed Wiil,niit a progtam review the county does not know if the program is wuhout coinip[ton, nor is there any oversight which assures the pul,lii that Green Harvest is not lust another type of taxation for the benefit of those who can get away with n perhaps because the. i~cnr badge With the exposure of the conuptton with in the ranks of the poltce department in recent lawsuits it would benefit the public the police, and the county council, tf we all knew that this program was as above reproach as Caesar's wife That is why a program review is necessary before the resumption of county run helicopter eradication Flights you should vote no on this grant because it accomplishes the opposite of eradicaunp Cannabis rather raising the caluc of the Cannabis insures that more Cannabis will be grown N0. 1 fl9 . File No. hwMltiy L Ref. To: MAR .2001 ital. D~t~ Cannabis eradication actually creates more cnme 1 Eradication creates more cnme because it eliminates small time growers in favor of professional growers w•ho have profit enough to corrupt one or more police officers, so why council should you waste the additional county assets in a program that creates greater skilled Cannabts growm, some pertiaps even gaining greater profits as a dut:ct result of the very program designed to elimuiete Cannabis Mr Elanonoff how can we citizens know for sure if the police are protecting an elite group of growers without a comprchrnsrve program revrevr'~ Shouldn't the police and the county welcome such an exanunation that is triiless there rs something to lude~~ 2 Eradication creates more cnme because tt raises the pnce of Cannabis thus creating even more reason to engage in acts of greed such as growing evrn more cannabis with greater determination evrn booby traps and gun cremes If the police were to desire u create greater safety in the community then a program which devalues the pnce of Cannabis through a greater supply being avatlable is much more desirable Tlus being the case Mr Elanonoff, does the police department have a hidden agenda in creating a higher pnce for Cannabis thus creating greater cause for rnme'''' How will we know with out a program review 3 Eradication aeates more rnme because it wrongly pnonnzes that the greatest effon be given Cannabis eradication rather ihan crack tee and heroin, answer please Councilman Elanonoff where is the county spending 5200,000 on these other and more dangerous chemicals were rs the grant for treatment of these much more senous drug problems'r'' as a Conner policeman do you still suppose that arresting greater and greater numbers of drug users wall stop the problem, when such a policy has yet to work showing decades of failure to do so'~ 4 Enidicauon lather than making Cannabis harder for lads to get actually makes Cannabis more avatlable to kids Ml 1 ligh School studrnt will tell you it is much easier to get pot than it is to get beer or cigarettes Mr Elanonoff do you [lank that its better for kids to have pot more readily available than beer because it is illegal and therefore no pot dealer checks ID card, to see if the buyer rs of age~~ You can not explain how eradication even remotely keeps pot ou[ of the hands of lads thus the whole reason behind prohibition is a miserable failure, a defieutron of trisarury is to repeatedly commit the same enor even rho one knows it does not work 5 Fredicauon is a hate cnme uifticted by government on its citizens by cnmuializing a health problem Mr Elanonoff are puller trained in medical sctrnce''i are the police not only our protectors but our physicians because for decades the police have iold ii that Cannabis has no medtctnal use but the state legislature, the framers of the law, have Wiled otherwise, how are hehcopier pilots going to be able to tell the dtfferrnce between legal medical pot and contraband from 500 feet in the aif'~ Even rho the medical ID card names the street address there are no street addresses visible from a helicopter 6 Eradication continues to alienate the police from the citizenry it is swum to protect, and creates a unchecked opponwtity for theft that is outside the perusal of the police as such nmmes as theft of pot are not responded to by police as the victims can riot seek protection from such btuglerys other then by then own hand Mr Elanonotf, should the county create such an atntospherr of lawlessness by going to such great Irngths to wage war on a God given plant°~ 7 Eradication violates cihuns pnvitcy and there tight to the quiet rn~oyment of then homes Mr F.lanonoff aren't the police to he the i;itiuns friend and public servants rather than the enemy of peace and quiet~~ g Eradication has irsed high elevation spraying end subjected citizens water catchments to unhealthy conditions through such poisons being whipped about buy the prop wash of the helicopters Mr Elanonoff is it the proper job of the policy to poison the ~pay~~~ 9 Federal rules regarding the scheduling of Cannabis are broken by the will of the PEOPLE and legislature It having Ixen determined by the state legislattue, that cannabis does have medical applications, and that tt is also doctor recommended eliminates Cannabis being classified as a schedule one substance as it does have medical use this being the case Mr Elariunurt will you join in a county resolution depnontizing the enforcement of Cannabis prosecutions and repnontizing such count) expendinues toward the treatmrnt of serous drugs of abuse such as ice and heroin" ~a -