Welcome to MCCFDIA

MCCFDIA is committed to providing positive changes for the people of Maui County through the use of voter registration efforts and the county initiative process. We hope that everybody, every organization and person, takes part in the democratic process.

We believe that a true a representation of Maui citizens' voices and views can only be achieved through passing ordinances by initiative. The initiative process is free speech, our innate right and a way to control and not fear the government. It is the means to make our government work for the people and not against the people.

MCCFDIA is committed to changing Maui County from a dangerous import-dependent economy to a safe, self-sustainable island community through the diversification of Maui's agricultural industry.

Maui County Citizens for Democracy in Action supports a common sense alternative to Maui's current marijuana laws. In partnership with Maui's community of healers, doctors, and caregivers, we encourage herbal medicine as an alternative to more expensive and risky pharmaceutical drugs.

Maui County Citizens for Democracy in Action envisions a system, in Maui County, the State of Hawai'i, and the United States of America, where drug use becomes a heath issue, not a criminal issue.

We will increase revenues for Maui County as well as the resources available for health care and treatment. Innovative drug reform will focus on prevention, education, treatment alternatives, reduced crime, reduced incarcerations, and reduced strains on our judicial system/police department.

A strong community effort will be required to register voters and gather signatures for a successful petition for 2010. Visit our YouTube video library to view the Initiative Process Tutorial from the Maui County Office of The County Clerk.

MCCFDIA seeks to help create needed jobs, and increase County revenues. We support Sustainable Family Farmers, thru an allotment system based on the USA's tobacco allotment rules, will provide for the medical needs of our community.

The County of Maui is absolutely committed to the protection of civil rights and civil liberties for all of its residents and affirms its commitment to embody democracy; to embrace, defend, and uphold the inalienable rights and fundamental liberties granted by the United State's Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Hawai'i State Constitution, and the Maui County Charter.

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 review.



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.