The following letter to the Editor was published in West Hawaii Today on January 15, 2010.
Deputy Prosecutor Rick Damerville testified at the recent committee meeting on marijuana decriminalization held by the Hawaii County Council. During his presentation against the resolution, he trumpeted the words of King James I, who in 1604 issued a proclamation about [...]
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Mahalo Councilman Greenwell for your resolution to decriminalize Cannabis
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
PEACEFUL SKY ALLIANCE SUPPORTS COUNCILMAN GREENWELL’S EFFORTS TO ENCOURAGE THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANAÂ December 15, 2009
This resolution 281-009 proposed by Mr. Greenwell has the primary focus of addressing the need to decriminalize the use of Cannabis in Hawaii.
The Peaceful Sky Alliance supports Mr. Greenwell’s resolution. We have specific recommendations for Mr. [...]
Another community who wants Cannabis arrests a low priority: Breckenridge, Colorado
A new set of marijuana laws is nearing approval in Breckenridge, where possession of the drug and paraphernalia by people over 21 is to be decriminalized Jan. 1.
The regulations would make public display and consumption of marijuana punishable by a $100 fine and up to 15 days in jail.
Breckenridge police chief Rick Holman said he [...]
This is what it looked like in California when they didn’t make Cannabis offenses their lowest priority..
We found these statistics for California between 1990 and 2008. They were released by the Criminal Justice Statistics Center & the Demographic Research Unit. Check out the graph below…
This is what the ‘Drug War’ has done to our Law Enforcement’s sense of what it is important to be focusing on. Do you see what happened [...]
Why are Judges in Hawaii County ‘prescribing’ medical treatment that is far more dangerous than Cannabis?
Another issue that keeps coming up here in Hawaii County concerns judges who are making ‘medical determinations’ concerning Cannabis. Frequently the judges will make it a condition of probation that the defendent is NOT to use Cannabis while on probation (remember that probation can sometimes be up to 10 years). We’ve seen judges ‘override’ advice [...]
What are we thankful for?
We are thankful to all the people in Hawaii County who believe that our County could be ‘better’… more compassionate, more secure, more peaceful & more prosperous.
We are thankful to people who, for 30 years have worked to see an end to ‘Green Harvest’ in Hawaii County.
We are thankful for the 35,000 voters who came [...]
Today.. a big story in West Hawaii Today but small story in the HawaiiTribune-Herald
So do we think that newspaper readers in our community would be interested to know about new developments occurring in the area of ‘medical marijuana’? … Yes we do.
Do we think the community of Hawaii County is interested in knowing how Cannabis could contribute to economic recovery here on this island? …Yes we do.
We’re [...]
Case of Prosecution of ‘Adult Personal Use’ case by County Prosecutor
Editor note-Title of original post has been changed.
Another case where we know of the Office of The Prosecuting Attorney prosecuting a case that should have been dropped if Mr. Kimura and his office were in compliance with the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordinance is described below:
Hawaiian Acres Resident had an amount that was [...]
What happened in Seattle: A lesson for those who disrespect the voter’s will. Mr. Jay Kimura are you listening?
The story of what happened to Seattle’s Chief Prosecutor who lost his job because he disrespected the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordinance passed by Seattle voters:
Nobody bawled into their pillow last election night like City Attorney Tom Carr, an eight-year incumbent with the backing of labor unions and city [...]
2.3 Million People incarcerated in the USA- This week Congress urged Judges to ‘rethink’ mandatory minimum sentences…
“The November 9 Supreme Court arguments on whether it is cruel and unusual to impose life in prison without parole on violent juveniles who have not killed anybody understandably got prominent media coverage,” a National Journal column reports.“But a far more important imprisonment story gets less attention because it’s a running sore that rarely [...]
