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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0140.022 2002-2004June 3rd, 2003 Roger Christie The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry w-, i- .thc-ministrv.org 961-0488 n ACTION ALERT! '°.. "_-_____________4y Public Service Announcement_" --- is the 'ice' epidemic created on purpose by law makers? Aloha. All concerned citizens are invited to protest the increase in Mayor Harry Kim's budget for 'marijuana. eradication' for the coming year. It is an act of malfe. san`. e, an impeachable offense, to expand marijuana eradication when it has been proven to have caused the 'ice' epidemic and poverty in Hawai'i, according to the only federal study to examine the issue. Please come and testify at the public meeting or fax your testimony to: Hawaii County Council Chairman James Arakaki @ (808) 969-3291. When? Wednesday June 4th, 2003 at 8:30 a.m. Where? Hawaii County Council lanai at the old county building, second floor, Puna -side Why" The only federal government study done on the causes of the 'ice' epidemic in Hawai'i concluded, "The use of ice in Hawaii has led to particularly serious physical and psychological problems and significant social disruption in poor working communities where it replaced marijuana which had become scarce and expensive due to eradication policies." and Comm. No.0.2 24 Ref. To: metedEfk&il Ref. Date, j 1 i w o d 7551 "An important finding emerging from this study concerned the effect on individuals and communities from the scarcity of marijuana due to the eradication campaigns. Users often reported this was a major contribution to the increase in the use of meth." and as one respondent reported: "Ice is easier to get than weed. It's not much more expensive than weed either. The amount of people here that use ice is increasing because people who couldn't find weed were starting to find ice easier. Plenty guys I know use ice because they can't get pot. I'd rather see them smoking pakalolo cause they were mellow, nice people. On ice, they change into robbing houses and carrying guns in less than one month. Things they never did on. weed." From the National Institute on Drug Abuse 1991-1994 Final Report ICE AND OTHER METHAMPHETAMINE USE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY. (Entire report has been removed from the N.I.D.A. website) National Institute on Drug Abuse 1991-1994 Final Report ICE and Other Methamphetamine Use: An Exploratory Study (Entire report has been removed from the N.I.D.A. website) Highlights of the effects of marijuana eradication on the 'ice' problem: "The use of ice in Honolulu had led to particularly serious physical and psychological problems and significant social disruption in poor working communities where it replaced marijuana which had become scarce and expensive due to eradication policies." (From the summary of findings) "There are thought to be several influences on the tremendous growth of ice in Honolulu after 1987. Residents were both pushed away from pakalolo, their staple drug of choice, and pulled toward ice by a well -organized marketing campaign by Asian distributors. Also, the overwhelming smokable drug of choice, marijuana or pakalolo, which has been grown and used throughout the islands for many years, became the target of a government eradication campaign. This drove up prices, drastically reduced availability and left locals without their customary, and many would say relatively benign, smoke. Also very importantly, many locals derived either part or all of their livelihood from marijuana production. Robbed of this needed income many experienced considerable economic hardship. Thus when a new, easy to use, smokable product entered the market, one which at first felt non -threatening to youthful novitiates — ice, it was readily accepted as a product to be used and sold. Initial users were often likely to think of it as a substitute of sorts for pakalolo." (Page 22) "An important finding emerging from this study concerned the effect on individuals and communities from the scarcity of marijuana due to the eradication campaigns. Users often reported this was a major contribution to the increase in the use of meth especially in Honolulu. In many communities it had a devastating effect. As one respondent reported: The ice use on the Waianae coast is greater than a lot of other places in the state. This is like a central distribution center for ice. It's a known fact among the drug addicts and users on the island. It's easier to get than weed. It's not much more expensive than weed either. The amount of people here that use ice is increasing because people who couldn't find weed were starting to find ice easier. Plenty guys I know use ice because they can't get pot. I'd rather see them smoking pakalolo cause they were mellow, nice people. On ice, they change into robbing houses and carrying guns in less than one month. Things they never did on weed." (Page 123) "Moreover, successful periodic campaigns designed to eliminate this "evil" herb, serve to steer the user to more dangerous substances. Findings presented in Chapter 7 on the social consequences of ice in Honolulu demonstrated that the latest version of the American campaign against marijuana continues to have the same unfortunate consequences." (Page 163) Anti -pot efforts boost ice use 0 Marijuana prices driven up; users turn to crystal meth By Chris Loos Tribune -Herald Marijuana eradication- in Hawaii contributed to the increase in the use of the drug 'lice," according to a govern mcat study. An aide to Mayor Harry Kim is scbeduled to meet today with study f Nation- al Institute on Drug Abuse. The study gathered information from 450 methampbetamine us ms in H000hd ., San Francis- co and San Diego. "It's the first study ever done that interviewed us« in the comnumity," said study leader Patricia Morgan. Morgan, associate professor at the Scbool of Public Health at the University of California at Berke- ley, was vacationing in Kona wben sbc kcarned that Kim's executive assistant, Billy Kenoi, wanted to mea with her to dis- cuss the report Kcnoi is helping to organize a 'meth surrunit" on the Big Island next month- Morgan's onthMorgan's 1994 report, some 200 pages long. found that the. California methamphetamine users were more likely to snort or inject the drug. while 86 per- cent of the Hawaii users smoked the crystal form. 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