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Newsbrief:
Marijuana
Advocate
Sues
Over
Hawaii
Aerial
Eradication
Program
5/31/02
Longtime Hawaii marijuana
advocate Roger Christie, who previously won a $75,000 out-of-court settlement
after being arrested for possession of legal hemp seeds, has filed suit
against all members of the Hawaii County Council over the council's continuing
failure to review the county's marijuana eradication program, known as
"Green Harvest."
At its peak, Green Harvest
eradicated more than a million marijuana plants each year, but the program
has drawn sustained and vociferous opposition, not only from marijuana
advocates but also from citizens who complained of being buzzed by low-flying
helicopters, subjected to drifting herbicide sprays and assaulted by SWAT-style
eradication teams.
Thanks to the efforts of
Christie and other "usual suspects" at government hearings, the county
foreswore a $265,000 DEA grant for Green Harvest in September 2000 after
the council was threatened with impeachment. The program restarted
in a limited fashion in March 2001, with restrictions including a ban on
aerial spraying and limits on how close to homes helicopters can fly or
police can rapel from them. Last year, Hawaii police complained that
their seizures had shrunk dramatically, but complaints of police abuses
continued.
Fellow marijuana activist
Jonathan Adler told the Honolulu Advertiser that eradication program critics
would also seek the removal of council members for failing to uphold the
charter, which require such programs to be audited every four years.
No audit has been done on Green Harvest.
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Issue #239, 5/31/02
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