Pubdate: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 Source: Garden Island (HI) Contact: http://www.kauaiworld.com/kauai/letterstoeditor.nsf/webletter?openform Copyright: 2002 Kauai Publishing Co. Website: http://kauaiworld.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/964 Author: Tom Rice Note: For more on medical cannabis and cannabis eradication in Hawaii go to http://www.mapinc.org/areas/Hawaii 'NO ARRESTS WERE MADE,' BUT WHY? Letter to the Editor There have been at least four front page, detailed reports in The Garden Island over the past two or three years about authorities destroying marijuana plants. The reports name as participants virtually every County, State, and Federal drug enforcement agency: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Kaua'i Police Department (KPD), Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), Hawaii Police Department (HPD), Hawaii Air National Guard, and more. The reports describe long hours of investigation, aerial recon, and combined task forces swooping in. Plants are cut down (does this kill the root?). Readers can imagine the drama. And yet every report has these same four words: "No arrests were made." No arrests? All these law enforcement professionals, hundreds perhaps, combing the island for marijuana, and NOBODY gets arrested? This may not give the citizens much hope that these laudable raids by dedicated enforcement officials are stamping out drugs. Even as you read this, imagine tiny marijuana sprouts peeking their naughty shoots above ground from the cut-off stalks. We're BAAACK! In summary, good for the cops for doing something. Any ideas why no arrests? Tom Rice North Shore - --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk