Pubdate: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 Source: Maui News, The (HI) Section: Viewpoint Copyright: 2002 The Maui News Contact: http://www.mauinews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2259 Author: Roger Christie Note: Roger Christie has been a resident of Hilo and a cannabis hemp liberation activist since 1986. He created the Marijuana Political Action Committee in 1987, co-founded the Hawaii Hemp Council in 1990, the Hawaiian Hemp Company in 1991 and created THC, The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry in 2000. He has regularly made speeches and appearances on Maui. Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) FINDING OUT THE TRUTH CAN END HAWAII'S 30-YEAR WAR ON CIVILIANS The time of accountability for Hawaii's 'marijuana eradication program' has come. Horrible social, economic and environmental damage have grown for decades on the manure of prohibitionist media and journalism, DARE misinformation, police propaganda and the lack of a 'mandatory program review.' It's time to take a good, hard look at what's going on here, and repair it now for our healthy and prosperous future. Reported and many more unreported incidents of heavily armed and violent, ninja-clad robbers looking for 'medical marijuana,' Forbes magazine declaring doing business in Hawaii is akin to 'economic suicide,' statewide poverty, the 'ice' epidemic, poisoned gardens, post-traumatic stress disorder from a terrorized rural populace, the exodus from here to anywhere - - all of these and more are examples of unintended consequences of the state's marijuana eradication program, now in its 30th year. An independent and critical 'mandatory program review,' as required by the Hawaii County Charter, Section 3-16 every four years and never done, would help identify the root cause of these problems and hold the responsible parties accountable - at least on the Big Island. The state's marijuana eradication program acts like an artificial price-support and endorsement for crime, hard-drug and alcohol abuse and other antisocial behavior. The pharmacratic inquisition has been an age-old battle to deny a traditional sacrament and natural herbal remedy and to replace it with (fill in the blank) for someone else's benefit. Prohibition-minded lawmakers, law enforcers, lawyers, media people and others just might be the cause of the state's biggest crime wave. How can we the people find out? We need a mandatory program review of the marijuana eradication program to prove it, or not. It's the unenforced law in Hawaii County, and should be the enforced law statewide. The marijuana eradication program - also known as Green Harvest - is a creeping para-military war on civilians and curious children and an excuse to spy on inhabitants by the agencies and agents we hire to protect us from that very behavior. The program is domestic terrorism disguised as law, paid for by duped taxpayers and lobbied for by police departments that financially benefit directly from it. Like early Christians who were forged by persecution, cannabis enjoyers worldwide are building a faith in the healing and sacramental qualities of this miraculous herb. The very word 'Christ' means anointed, with cannabis, or kaneh bosm, and other herbs in olive oil, according to a specific recipe given to Moses in the Torah, or Old Testament. See www.forbiddenfruitpublishing.com for details. For details on the rich history of cannabis hemp in Shinto, see www.taima.org. I know that with the light of a mandatory program review shining on the darkness of our 30-year war called the marijuana eradication program, all the inhabitants of Hawaii will find healing and forgiveness and return to the conditions of harmony and abundance that nature and divinity will have entitled us. - --- MAP posted-by: Ariel