Pubdate: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI) Copyright: 2014 Star Advertiser Contact: http://www.staradvertiser.com/info/Star-Advertiser_Letter_to_the_Editor.html Website: http://www.staradvertiser.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5154 Author: John Wythe White Page: A10 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n713/a04.html GREEN HARVEST LEAD TO CRAZY METH ERA I read the Aug. 26 article, "Medical marijuana could help counter painkiller deaths," with great interest, especially the last sentence about how people "may never start opioid medication use if they are able to get pain relief from medical marijuana." I remember the days of Green Harvest, the federal marijuana eradication program that was highly successful in Hawaii. People went to jail, lost their homes and switched from smoking pot to snorting and/or shooting up crystal methamphetamine. We traded mellow, stoned-out hippies for sick, psychotic thieves and murderers who might never have begun using meth if they had retained their access to marijuana. John Wythe White Haleiwa - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom