Should Molokai help supply the state's medical marijuana needs?

Pharmacheutical companies would never allow the legalization of pakalolo. The revenue that they would lose would be astronomical! Pain relievers, anti nausea etc. They need people to stay on their products and not allow them to grow their own medicine.
Also, prisons are big business. Gotta keep em filled while building more.

laws change at the whim of government leaders. many laws are made not in the interest of the general public but in the interest of big corporations. laws have little to do with what is pono, but they should keep in mind that people need to earn a living (see the current laws which close down vacation rentals) and many laws are a deterrent to small businesses. in the case of marijuana laws, even though the state gives permission to chronically ill paople to grow a few plants or to possess what may amonut to an ounce per month, these people are not allowed to transport these meds and there is no dispensary for them to buy it, and not every patient is physically able to grow these plants, so they have to go to secret illegal growers and purchase these meds in back alleys. something is very wrong with this picture! the current laws cause all sorts of thefts and the jails are packed with offenders.

Why has,nt the real estate people, the people who have
purchased lots, built new homes on some of the 25 million in sales of ranchland property, The property owners asso, of Kaluakoi,Ke Nani Kai,and Paniolo Hale

Filed law suits for devalvation of the owners property,
and the lost rental revenue from renting of the condos
and homes and cottages, The golf course was a major draw of people to come to the westend.

The Island should start a puplic domain suit on the ranch, the cease of operations of the ranch had nothing to due with a sound business decision, it all came down to the show of power, but what a cost,these people behind the ranch will be shown to Molokai for who and what they really had in their plan for your Island.

My next comment coming soon will show what they had in place in the plan for Molokai.;

Dave Winberg

It is my opinion that pacalolo should be legitimised (legalised), not just for medicinal purposes, but for 'recreational' use as well. As history has shown, outlawing substance does not effectively prevent the broader deleterious social and physical effects of its use. The best example of this has to be passage of the 18th Amendment to the US constitution in 1920 (commonly known as 'Prohibition'), which directly resulted in a thriving illegal trade in alcohol, as well as the establishment of deeply rooted organised crime (the Italian Mafia's American branch: Cosa Nostra) in the United States. Instead of preventing the use of alcohol, 'Prohibition' merely allowed alcohol abuse to flourish under the control of dangerous criminal gangs. The lesson that we SHOULD have gained therein is this: legislation of morality does not work effectively to eliminate activity that has been legislatively declared to be 'illegal', since it simply drives criminal activities deeply below the law enforcement radar. On the other hand, if a substance is legalised, it may be openly and more easily regulated and controlled (thereby helping eliminate difficult-to-police criminal activity). Examples of the 'legalisation' effect may be found in consideration of cigarette smoking and use of alcohol. While both of these 'legal' substances are easily as harmful (or more so) in their short and long terms effects (as marijuana), they may at least be regulated openly; furthermore, there is substantial (legal) profitability from their sale to be gained (not to mention taxes). Compared to abuse of cigarettes and alcohol, use of marijuana is neither better nor worse than these two 'legal' drugs. All have deleterious health effects, but none on the catatrophic scale of methamphetamine abuse and the far more dangerous 'hard' drugs (Heroin, Opium, etc.). Only by legalising the growth and sale of marijuana can we hope to control the use of the substance, since decades of ATF (Federal Agency: Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco) 'search and destroy' missions to eliminate illegal growth of pacalolo have been shown time and time again to be not just ineffectual, but horrifically costly as well. Many people who oppose use of pacalolo, frequently citing religious objections on a 'moral' basis, at the same time have little problem with smoking and alcohol: the stink of hypocrisy in that sort of illogical attitude is simply too strong to ignore. Quite recently a prominant physician on the islands came out with a paper in which he courageously examined the severely flawed premise underlying making substances 'illegal' as a way of controlling their use. One of his many points reiterated the fact that making substances illegal and declaring them unlawful does NOT make them go away (and never has). If marijuana growth and sales were made legal and placed under careful regulatory control (just as cigarettes and alcohol are presently), the social effects would be potentially quite positive. Additionally, pacalolo would serve as a revenue producing activity in the same manner as tobacco growth and alcohol production are, bringing a source of new (and legal) revenue to the island's economy. While I do not myself smoke cigarettes, use alcohol, or 'do pacalolo' (I am, incidentally, also not a Christian), I feel that the only logical, wise, and prudent course of action to take is to decriminalise marijuana completely. Legitimising it for medical use only would certainly be an imediate step in the right direction, but continuing to make use of pacalolo a criminal offense is seriously misunderstanding the most appropriate manner of dealing effectively and definitively with the social effects posed by consciousness-altering and health-affecting substances. The Nederlands (in Europe) serves as an excellent example of this 'legal management' approach, since in that nation ALL substances are legal and may thereby be openly controlled and properly regulated. In my opinion, it is well past time for the United States (and especially Molokai) to reconsider the present 'backward' (illogical and moralistically constipated) attitudes that presently make such substances illegal. Mahalo for listening.
Malama pono!
Kalikiano