Did The Crystal Methamphetamine Media Blitz Last Month Daze The Public?

Hawai'i's got an ice problem. If you don't know that by now, you've been living under a rock. Heck, even the British know about our problem, thanks to a June 15 article in the London Observer entitled "Poverty Stricken Hawaiians In Grip of 'Ice' Addiction."

The Observer's Richard Luscombe wrote that "between 10 and 15 percent of Hawai'i's population of almost 1.25 million are users." That means we have 180,000 ice fiends -- one around nearly every coconut tree.

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