Pubdate: Tue, 19 May 2009 Source: Maui News, The (HI) Copyright: 2009 The Maui News Contact: http://www.mauinews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2259 Author: Donald Brown DAYS OF 'IGNORANCE AND FEAR' NEVER LEFT THE ISLAND I too am compelled to address a deceptive and ill-informed letter from Jerome Kellner regarding marijuana (Letters, May 9). Avo Tomji (Letters, May 14) wrote: "Let's not return to the days of ignorance and fear." Well, there must be two Maui's because we cannabis users have been living in fear of police and judicial ignorance constantly. There is no returning to what we have not yet left. Good cannabis has all the zap of good coffee. If the police and government would stop lying about it, they would stop being seen as an enemy by many of us law-abiding, regular people. Many of us can't stand alcohol and the violence it brings and resent the police for knowingly lying about cannabis for years. Those lies resulted in the formation of LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - by police who could no longer stand to lie. Donald Brown Haiku - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom