Hawaii Tribune-Herald Published: Sunday, January 17, 2010 7:54 AM HST I am always reading that the Police Department leaders and the county Prosecuting Attorney’s Office keep insisting that they will continue to ignore the “Peaceful Sky” initiative because marijuana is still illegal under state and federal laws, and therefore they will continue “green harvesting” and harassing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 hall, who was [...]
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, seizure, [...]
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 generates [...]
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 [...]
