MCCFDIA has launched its 2012 initiative to influence positive change in Hawaii laws this year. GMO Gotta GO! Help ban all genetically modified organisms from Maui. Read more >         _______________________________ MCCFDIA sets one-day voter-registration record. We're headed toward breaking our record in 2012. ___________________________________ Lawful Hawaiian Government Elections were held Nov. 5th, 2011. Read more info>

Peaceful Solution ~ Let's Vote Back America - and support Maui Family Farmers, by MCCFDIA: Let's make tax dollars and "common sense" with medical cannabis laws. Music courtesy of Willie Nelson. Larry King Live, Hosts Interview With Willie, On Legal Cannabis Meet Hawaii's persecuted cannabis activists, & Maui's own Patients Without Time. View MCCFDIA's video library on Facebook. We have over 1,360,000 views.

Action Alert: PATIENTS WITHOUT TIME submitted a proposed Hawaii Sustainable Family Farm Act to the Hawaii Legislature, as amendments to SB 1458. Unfortunately the 2011 legislature failed to pass any medical marijuana (MMJ) reform bills again this year, so we are already preparing for the 2012 session. You can support an ethical medical cannabis industry, and promote self-sustainability, while supporting small family farms in Hawaii, by contacting Gov. Abercrombie and asking him to create a medical cannabis task force to consider the advantages for Hawaii that are set forth in the Hawaii Sustainable Family Farm Act. Let's take medical marijuana sales out of the black-market, and keep it out of big corporations, while growing our economy and agricultural industries.

Call Off the Global Drug War, by JIMMY CARTER, the 39th president, founder of the Carter Center, and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, published: June 16, 2011, New York Times.

"The mission of the Maui Police Department is to serve the community in a manner that epitomizes those ideals woven into the fabric of the Constitution of the United States and the Spirit of Aloha." Our brave Maui Police officers are ready 24 hours a day to serve and protect all citizens. In an emergency call 9-1-1, for non-emergencies call 808-244-6400. Hawaii police are spending Public Funds to Protest Hawaii's Marijuana Laws. The Maui police, in co-operation with Hawaii's other county police departments statewide, and Hawaii's Narcotics Enforcement Division (NED), launched an organised political action campaign to obstruct medical marijuana reform legislation during the Hawaii’s 2011 legislative session. Their attempts were apparently successful because no medical marijuana legislation was passed. A little known fact is that Hawaii's police departments directly benefit financially from strict marijuana laws. Hawaii's police departments get to allocate the funds gained from seizures during marijuana arrests within their own departments. This makes their special interest efforts all the more ethically inappropriate. Update: April 15th, 2011: A Formal Compliant was filed with the Maui County Board of Ethics, on April 15th, 2011, by Brian Murphy certifying to the best of his knowledge and belief that; Maui Police Chief Gary Yabuta, in his position with the Maui Police Department, to be in violation of Maui County Charter, Article 10, Code of Ethics provision no./s:04-101-1 Highest Standards. Read alleged unethical Hawaii Police/DEA flyer stating, "Marijuana is not medicine," and other erroneous information, and blatant lobbying attempts to influence future laws that will continue to financially benefit Hawaii's police departments. Update, Sept. 1, 2011: Ethics in Hawaii: Passing the Buck. The Maui Police Commission, the Maui County Board of Ethics, and Governor Neil Abercrombie all have declined to take action, stating in written letters to Mr. Murphy, that they had no responsibility or power to take action. Read Ethics in Hawaii:  Passing the Buck. Update, Oct. 1, 2011, Mr. Brian Murphy and others, witnessed Maui Police officers distributing inflammatory political fliers, at the Maui County Fair. These fliers contained erroneous information, which violated Hawaii's medical marijuana patients rights, and violated Hawaii's public protesting laws, and violated political lobbying laws. How did the Maui Police acquire public funding? How long will this inappropriate use of tax dollars continue without any form of oversight, or accounting? Links for more info: Did armed Maui police violate medical cannabis patient's rights at Walmart? Read Police pan pot proposals, The Maui News, Feb. 15, 2011. View reactions & editorials regarding Maui Police political agendas. View the outrageous flier.

ACLU victory: The ACLU took action after reports that Keith Kamita, the head of DPS’s Narcotics Enforcement Division and now Deputy Director for Law Enforcement for Hawaii State Department of Public Safety (DPS), incorrectly and improperly threatened and restricted a local physician wrongly informing him that house calls for medical cannabis patients were prohibited under state law. Unlawful Medical Cannabis Policies To Be Revised, May, 2011. Read more at alcu.org >>

Hawaii's Politicians: Gov. Abercrombie Senator Akaka Senator Inouye Hawaii Senators Hawaii Representatives Maui Mayor: Alan M. Arakawa

Maui County Council Lana'i: G. Riki Hokama Moloka'i: Danny A. Mateo Donald G. Couch. Jr. Gladys Coelho Baisa Elle Cochran Robert Carroll Mike White Joseph Pontanilla Wailuku: Michael P Victorino

Hawaii's Legislature Wailuku: Joe Souki Kahului: Gilbert Keith-Agaran Lahaina-Kihei: Angus McKelvey Kihei-Makena: George R. Fontaine Upcountry: Kyle Yamashita Hana-Moloka'i: Mele Carroll

Maui State Senate Wailuku-Pa'ia: Shan Tsutsui SW. Maui: Rosalyn H. Baker Hana-Upcountry-Moloka'i-Lana'i: J. Kalani English

If acrid billowing smoke from sugar cane-fires (photo) on Maui is adversely affecting your health, you may easily file a complaint over the phone, with the Department of Health, by calling 984-8234. We encourage you to report all adverse health issues that you and your family suffers as a result of breathing sugar cane smoke. We ask you to encourage your friends to call or write the Department of Health and report any of their family’s health problems that are related to breathing sugar cane smoke. The Hawaii government needs our feedback to enact positive change. Mahalo. You may have Hawaiian Commercial Sugar add your name to their pre-burn contact list by calling them at 877-6988. Call backs seem unreliable so you may check the Maui sugar cane burning schedule recording by calling 808-877-6963. Read visitors precautions.

MCCFDIA's Initiatives: 2005 to 2011 2011 Initiative: MCCFDIA is preparing for the 2012 legislative sessions. We will keep you posted on upcoming events, action alerts, and positive steps that we can take to grow our Maui economy and communities. Watch for our new Activists Cafe opening in October, in Paia, at Haz Beanz Cafe! We support the proposed Hawaii Sustainable Family Farm Act.You may review the 2011 individual bills that failed to pass: Senate Bill 58, Senate Bill 113, Senate Bill 174, Senate Bill 175, Senate Bill 1458, Senate Bill 1459, Senate Bill 1460, House Bill 544, House Bill 923, House Bill 1169, House Bill 1085 or view a brief overview of all bills in our 2011 Cannabis Bill Watch. 2010 Initiative: Read the County of Maui Medical Cannabis Supply and Reciprocity Ordinances as well as the Cannabis Lowest Law Enforcement Priority Ordinance proposed for the 2010 election. Maui's medical marijuana patients still live in confusion, and fear of police surveillance and arrest. Police and courts are confused about the laws. Medical marijuana patients suffer segregation and prejudice that no other patient group must endure. 2009 Initiative: View 2009 MCCFDIA Video Update: Family Farmer Ordinance - July 2009 Shortly after Brian Murphy's lawsuit against the police was filed, on November 11, 2008, the Maui Police Department arrested the operators of Patients Without Time medical marijurara patient co-op. For more info view, Is Marijuana Medicine?, Charges Fabricated and VIEWPOINT: Legislation needed to correct deficiency in the Hawaii Medical marijuana law by Brian Murphy, Maui News, January 4, 2009. 2008 Initiative: In November of 2008, Brian Murphy, the director of Maui County Citizens for Democracy in Action, a Hawaii nonprofit corporation for political action, and founder and coordinator of Patients Without Time, a medical marijuana patient's co-op, and patient's advocacy group, based in Paia, filed a lawsuit complaining that the Maui Police Department violated his, and other medical marijuana patient's, rights and interfered with the operation of Patients Without Time. Read the Pleadings: Brian Murphy v The State of Hawai'i, et al. On July 27, 2008, Clayton Frank, the Director of the State of Hawai'i Department of Public Safety wrote this Letter of Apology from the State of Hawaii to all registered medical marijuana patients for releasing the name, address, and other private medical info, about Hawai'i's statutorily authorized medical marijuana patients, to two unidentified newspersons. Media Coverage: Lolo Laws by Brandon Roberts,4/11/08 The Molokai Dispatch: In 2000, Hawaii recognized the medicinal benefits of marijuana and approved the use of medical marijuana, though the law lacks the proper language on how to acquire the medicinal herb. Democracy In Action (DIA), and Patients Without Time (PWT) are two organizations stoking an initiative called Maui County Family Farmer Regulation and Revenue Ordinance, which would help clarify the regulation of medical marijuana in Maui County. The Maui News: 3/30/08, Maui County Citizens For Democracy In Action has launched their petition drive to place the 2008 Maui County Family Farmer Regulation and Revenue Ordinance (MCFFRRO) on this November's ballot. KHNL8: House Discusses Bill to Grow Medical Marijuana on Maui, 2/1/08 and Debate Continues Over Changes in Hawaii's Medical Marijuana Law, 3/18/08   "Although marijuana for medical purposes is legal in Hawaii, patients authorized to use the plant are being hassled by law enforcement agencies and others, said Maui Rep. Joe Bertram III." Feb. 1, 2008, Star Bulletin 2006 Initiative: Taking it to the Streets in 2006 Kicking off the local 2006 medical marijuana legalization campaign, “On Jan. 13, 2006, Brian Murphy and supporters—acting under the new group name Democracy in Action—submitted two proposed ordinances supporting efforts to reform state medical marijuana laws:”

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