October 27, 1998
Honolulu Advertiser
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By Hugh ClarkVOTERS SUPPORT HEMP, POLL SAYS
Hilo, Hawai’i - Six in 10 Hawai’i voters support
medical uses of marijuana and the growing of hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating
cousin, for fiber and food products, said a poll commissioned by a pro-marijuana group.
The $10,000 poll of 400 Hawai’i voters was paid for by Americans for Medical
Rights, a Sacramento, Calif. group seeking the legalization of medical marijuana.
Americans for Medical Rights commissioned the poll at the request
of Hilo resident Roger Christie, co-founder of the Hawai’i Hemp Council and a
long-time advocate for the legalization of marijuana.
See
Tight Budget
– Not Justice – Brings Dismissal of Six Year-old Hawaiian Hemp Seed Case
Big Island View
The public debate on legalizing hemp and marijuana has been ongoing for the past five
years on the Big Island, which is still looking for crops to plant in its vacated sugar
cane fields. State Reps. David Tarnas (D-Kona) and Cynthia Thielen (R-Kailua, Oahu)
support a hemp industry.
See
Hawaiian Paper
Gives Favorable Report On State Representative Thielen’s Federal Hemp Petition
and
Interview with
Shannon Congdon (co-founder with Peter Thielen) of Island Hemp Wear
and
Hawaiian Governor
Supports Legalizing Industrial Hemp; Says He Sometimes Wears Hemp Shirt
When poll respondents were asked if they "support or oppose
the use of marijuana for medical purposes," 38 percent said they strongly support it
and 25 percent said they somewhat support it. Twenty-one percent were strongly
opposed, 7 percent somewhat oppose it and 10 percent did not know.
Poll Sought
Christie said he sought to have the poll done after Republican gubernatorial candidate
Linda Lingle said, according to Christie, that she might reconsider her opposition to
legalized uses of marijuana if she could be convinced the public supports it.
See
Hawaiian House
Health Committee Isn’t Ready To Ask Congress To Allow Doctors To Prescribe Marijuana.
Lingle and her campaign manager, Bob Awana, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates of Sacramento conducted the poll. The firm
conducted telephone interviews of Hawai’i voters between September 30th
and October 4th. The poll has a margin of error of plus
or minus 5 percent.
The Hemp Page of Marijuananews.com is edited
by John E. Dvorak, Hempologist &
Managing Editor, Hemp Magazine.
John was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but is an eight year resident
of Allston/Brighton, MA, where he is the proprietor of the Boston Hemp Co-op and Managing
Editor of Hemp Magazine. He is a member of the Hemp Industries Association, the
International Hemp Association, and Mass/Cann NORML.
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