FORGET CIGARETTES AND FOCUS ON DRUGS

Here we go again. The state will license cigarette sellers and spend
thousands of dollars to monitor and investigate cigarette dealers while the
usual drug and marijuana dealers have sold their products in the same
places on Kuhio and Kalakaua in Waikiki every night for several years.

I seriously doubt that they "card" their buyers.

They have no need for a business or cigarette sales license and are
apparently exempt from the fines and penalties applied to legitimate
businesses trapped in stings for selling to underage buyers.

It appears that the state's precious revenue tax is far more important than
making any attempt to curb the flagrant and illegal marijuana sales in Waikiki.

ROGER D. VAN CLEVE Waikiki