OBEY CANNABIS LAW

The unwillingness of the majority of the County Council and the
county Police Commission to obey the "lowest law enforcement priority
of cannabis ordinance" has driven me to do some online research.

I find that considering only 67,258 of the 99,337 registered voters
turned out to vote, that means that only 26.1 percent of the voters
were concerned enough about this initiative to bother to vote against it.

I wonder if most of the council who voted against decriminalization
this year are too out of touch with the people to realize that you
can't predict a person's character or worth by whether they smoke
marijuana, and that the only truly dangerous thing about its private
use in moderation is the risk of jail.

I found that most of the state legislators have been in office about
20 years so.

Their failure to decriminalize personal use is no surprise, even
though that change would do a great deal to improve the tourist
numbers, reduce jail budgets and keep users as a productive part of society.

I hope the voters are offered fresh choices on both levels in the
next elections. Please, my fellow Hawaiians, let's insist our elected
officials show a little more common sense. And DO KEEP VOTING!

Richard Reed

Hakalau