When Laws Increase Crime Everone Loses

Layers of historical failures to enforce laws that are
poorly written create conditions where criminality can
thrive. Debating an issue is ridiculous if efforts to
write that law are negligent or deficient.

According to Maui Time, Maui Weekly and all other papers,
the State Legislature killed bills for medical marijuana,
legalized gambling, honoring cock fighting as a cultural
heritage, etc. Who paid those interns to spend hours in
writing such legislation anyway?

Through hearsay from "ag" property owners, Dr. Mastrianni's
patients on medical marijuana can grow up to 4 plants per
patient on their property and can grow multiple accounts.
From all accounts, they believe that they are acting with-
in the law as property owners. I am guessing this is from
attorneys who represent them.

Well, two weeks ago the medical marijuana law that should
have corrected the decade-old medical marijuana law was
not approved. Now what? Do drug laws matter on in Hawaii
where drug crimes are plentiful?

I've also heard that property owners receive a permit from
the County that gives them the chance to apply for a permit
from the State Narcotics agency. I even spoke to someone
who had parents who worked in the Mainland as federal drug
enforcement officers about his application for medical pot.

Some are clearly in denial about the confluence between
drug trafficking networks and medical marijuana, but those
photographs on the front page of the Maui News in 2008 with
Patients Without Time medical pot advocate Brian Murphy are
convincing that they were arrested for a reason.

Cultivating drug culture networks may be like community life
for the pedestrian user of pot, but the realities of repeated
failures to write, implement and pass viable laws are shown
to have a destructive effect on all sides of the issue.

Impotence has set in. Denial was always a given. Now what?