Pubdate: Mon, 01 Sep 2014
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Copyright: 2014 Star Advertiser
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http://www.staradvertiser.com/info/Star-Advertiser_Letter_to_the_Editor.html
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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
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