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What is the biggest challenge that faces the future of our island?
Drug Abuse
Submitted by toddyamashita on Sat, 2006-10-28 08:58.
It looks like most of you think that drug use is our biggest problem.
Do you have personal experiences that lead you to beleive this?
If you care to share, leave us a comment here, or check out our new forums link where we have a discussion dedicated to the drug abuse problem on Molokai.
Mahalo,
Todd S. Yamashita
Drug Abuse
Submitted by Beth Johnson on Thu, 2006-11-02 01:09.
I suspect that there are very few people on Molokai that have not had personal experience with drug abuse. Most of us know someone who is abusing. Our children bring stories from school and sometimes they even bring the drug home. We read in the police report of people we know being arrested on drug charges. Pakalolo can be seen growing (or evidence that it was grown)in people's yards as well as in public places. If alcohol and tobacco are included along with the illegal drugs, then the number of people affected further increases. If the drug abuse problem were not so acute, there would be more resources, time, money, and human potential to deal with the other issues that face us.
Drug abuse on Molokai.
One of the most important steps to be taken in fighting substance abuse on Molokai (aside from strong community ande family support across a broad front) is obtaining appropriate financial funding to help develop an infrastructure within which to base local anti substance abuse efforts. Funds are available both from the Federal Government and from the State of Hawaii to help in this battle, but in order to obtain Federal and State grants, the appropriate requests must be made along prescribed protocols. Individuals with grant-writing expertise and experience are of particular help in this aspect of the fight, in effectively working with local activists to get the necessary financial funding requests out to the proper organisations. Sad to say, money is a very important part of a comprehensive community-based program to fight back against those who promote and further substance abuses on the island.
Mahalo, Kalikiano