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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 MARIJUANA  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 [...]

The ACLU says to HCPD.. stop harassing medical marijuana patients.

Here are excerpts from an article published in The Big Island Weekly October 14, 2009. See below for our comments & mahalo to journalist Tiffany Edwards Hunt and The Big Island Weekly:
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Hawai’i has put the Hawaii County Council on notice that police helicopter flyovers for marijuana eradication are [...]

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 [...]

Mr. Kimura, what about “Lowest Priority” don’t you understand?

The Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordinance is a document of nearly 2,000 words that sets new priorities for policy concerning Cannabis in the County of Hawaii. The ordinance prescribes for all County officials and personnel a new direction for Hawai’i County and a new set of priorities that do not involve search, [...]

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 [...]

The ‘War on Drugs’ isn’t working for the Nation and it isn’t working for the County of Hawaii.

The “War on Drugs” isn’t working for the Nation and it isn’t working for Hawaii County. Don’t take our word for it. Ask the 35,000 voters who passed our new ordinance as a ballot initiative last election day, November 4, 2008. See below for two example of cases that have been costly drains on tax [...]

Are you a registered “medical marijuana” user?

Here’s what you should know .. (the good and the bad of it)
If you are registered by the Board of Public Safety as a medical marijuana user, you should know all of the conditions below that sets out what you can and can’t do.But caveat emptor or “buyer beware”, the rules and regulations around Cannabis [...]

AMA Calls For Ending The “Schedule #1 Lie”

Yesterday, NORML published this news.. the AMA has called for Cannabis (marijuana) to be rescheduled.
Now that’s a headline! The very basis for the drug war was the classification of Cannabis as a ’schedule 1′ drug. For the last 30 years Cannabis has been vilified and classified as a drug more potent and dangerous than crack [...]