Aloha Chief - I like a lot of what you have done on Kauai and wish you well in the HPD chief search, although I disagree with you on this issue. I do have one specific questions though - are you saying there is no one in jail related to weed expect for those who were committing violent acts in conjunction with it or have an addiction that makes them dysfunctional? I see you are clear about the dangers of alcohol, but surely you wouldn't claim we should lock up alcoholics just to help them break their addiction would you? If we won't/shouldn't do it for them, why should we do it for weed addicts? Frankly between weed, booze, and nicotine, only nicotine has been proven to have disastrous effects on innocent bystanders via second and third hand smoke. I would argue combating that would be the number one way to improve overall public health. Not public safety perhaps, but the violence that occurs with weed is solely due to it being illegal, not from the weed itself - unlike meth and booze.