Plight of the Oppressed Majority

I don't know if there can be an honest census about illegal drug use
in America, but I would guess that most Americans want to live free
from crime, violence and harassment. I would even say that most do
not want to push drugs on non-drug users. There is also a significant
percentage that are more "agro" in their drug habit by pushing
and intimidating their way into communities who would otherwise
be practicing tolerance for recreational use of illegal drugs.

Speaking about "agro" behavior, my close to 10 years stomping the
pavement as an urban dweller in the Haight Ashbury from mid-80's to
the late 90's is similar to those who remember the days of qualude,
marijuana, mushrooms and heroin on the streets. Homeless vets and
vagrants waited pleasantly at their favorite Ben and Jerry corner
to say niceties as they passed out their hat for coins. For non-
druggies like me, there were few problems in walking the streets
at all hours even for a female.

In the early 90's, established small businesses shut down into a
well-deserved retirement with nondescript hip-hop and vintage
clothing stores popped up with so few customers we wondered how
they paid their rent in the Haight. Crystal meth users came to
the 'hood to find more drugs and the climate became so hostile
and "agro" that the usual pedestrians took to walking on differ-
ent streets to make their way to their apartments.

Here on Maui, in "drug, sex, rock-n-roll" jungle life it appears
that the pot and hash users are as "agro" and savvy as any white
collar criminal sowing the seeds for commercial fraud. They are
open and unapologetic to identify someone who does not use, nor
need to use any type of illegal drug for fun. It is hard not to
inhale in a shared community kitchen or apartment complex with
fumes from the "herb" advocates.

How would they make this inhalant legal, aside from medicinal use?
How would they monitor in a place like Maui, illegal trafficking
with medical marijuana networks? Would they spy on you in your
bedroom to catch you like "hot houses" tactics by the DEA or with
"sneak and peek" FBI tactics? Since I have never broken the law,
they would have no reason to stalk my privacy, would they? Maybe
it's the fault of criminals in my environment that I am targeted.

Today's FBI news service press release is from Kevin Perkins who
spoke with the Senate Committee of Department of Homeland
Security and Sub-Committee Government Affairs. Target:
PUBLIC CORRUPTION, meaning local, state and federal officials who
aid and abet the trafficking of illicit substances.

He should speak with the House Committee Chair for Department of
Homeland Security and Sub-Intelligence Committee Congresswoman
Jane Harman who heard from me repeatedly for about two years. My
statement to her is on congress.org since December 2009. The
Department of Homeland Security works with Gang Intelligence from
the FBI or some federal agency looking into drug violence/terror
in America. Shame, shame those looking to build their network for
corporate-style legal drugs BEFORE there is adequate criminal/law
enforcement agencies to deal with addictive behavior.

Does anyone really think that legalized drugs would be affordable?
Delusional thinking accompanies certain type of impulse control
problems found with addiction. If you eliminate drugs, they say,
addicts will become addicted to porn, sex, food, love, etc. Other
countries think Americans have no soul and are too fat. Legalizing
drugs as a debate in isolation of the greater issue of corruption
facing our country is a form of distraction.

In a small economy like Maui, and a smaller drug economy like Maui
I was frequently known as the "asian woman" in jungle areas. Well,
there were only a few "asian women" in these areas, and yes - they
did use drugs openly. That includes a minor who was subsidized by
her wealthy real estate parents who live in Lahaina while she sowed
her wild oats with her drug culture nice-guy boyfriend who barely
survives making ganja butter with the leaves from baby marijuana
plants, also known as "shakes". Her name is Tiarra Yokomichi. Tiarra
is not Yukie Yamada, & visa versa. The other adult "asian woman" doing
the drug scene is Anna from San Diego, a known respiratory therapist
at Maui Memorial Hospital.

This is for the car vandals who prowl the jungle in search of the
next crime site in the name of drug-network intimidation.