Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 27 Sep 2010 – As a member of the Hawaii Meth Project’s Teen Advisory Council, I hear students at Baldwin High School commenting about the Meth Project’s TV, radio and print ads. Based on these comments, awareness about crystal meth’s addictive and physically damaging consequence seems to be reaching many of my peers.

The Maui News, 19 Sep 2010 – WAILUKU – The head of a Paia-based medical marijuana advocacy group turned himself in to police Friday, three months after being reindicted along with five others in an alleged marijuana trafficking operation. [name redacted], 55, who gave a Makawao address, was released after posting $100,000 bail on a warrant resulting from a Maui County grand jury indictment in June.

Hawaii Tribune Herald, 18 Sep 2010 – Just in case lawmakers are interested in what the citizenry thinks about the recent marijuana eradication operations on the Big Island, to judge from the amount of pure, unadulterated hostility the DEA helicopters generated in my neighborhood, it wouldn’t have been a surprise if the collective stink-eye had blown them out of the skies. If there’s such a thing as karma, it may take a couple of lifetimes of community service for the perpetrators of these crimes to pay their debt to society for all the days they ruined, and all the people they totally bummed out.

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Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 19 Sep 2010 – Meth Project Backers Hail Results But Doubt Rises Over Lasting Success For the second year, graphic television ads showing actors portraying pathetic and physically damaged drug addicts remind people about the danger of methamphetamine — but does the scary message work?

Hawaii Tribune Herald, 09 Sep 2010 – Those of us who have met Roger Christie know that he is not a danger to the community. How foolish to spend so much money to put Roger in prison and say that Roger is a danger to the community. Roger is a good man. I have never seen him get angry and cuss or scream at anyone. Everyone who knows or has met Roger, please speak up about this injustice. We need to let the feds know that Roger is not a danger to the community.

Hawaii Tribune Herald, 04 Sep 2010 – I am proud to say that I am a member of Roger Christie’s so-called THC Ministry. I have known this man for many years and have always seen him to be peaceful and considerate in his dealings with others.

The Maui News, 03 Sep 2010 – The bodies keep piling up. Recent news from Mexico includes the horrifying discovery of 72 bodies bound, blindfolded and shot on a secluded ranch. Seventy-two bodies of brothers, sons, husbands and fathers who will never make it back to their homes, probable victims of a drug cartel. Reports indicate that the two lead investigators working on the case are missing and probably dead. It is thought that the victims were workers on their way to the United States.

West Hawaii Today, 31 Aug 2010 – Has anyone in government noticed that the more they escalate the War On Drugs, the more people die, but the drug trade just goes on. There is a lot of violence in the illegal drug trade. Some think the answer is to impose more restrictions on firearms. The way to end drug warfare is to end the War On Drugs.

The Maui News, 23 Aug 2010 – WAILUKU – Saying "it’s not OK to smoke dope," 2nd Circuit Judge Shackley Raffetto ordered a 36-year-old Haiku man to attend substance abuse treatment and meetings as part of his five years’ probation for marijuana charges stemming from a police search of a Haiku home last year. During the sentencing hearing Thursday, Raffetto suspended 400 hours of community service for Graem