But they are. He said 90 percent are heavily armed and employ all manner of booby traps in their patches, aimed at killing, maiming or otherwise discouraging interlopers. Pungi sticks, crude firing mechanisms designed for use with shotgun shells, and spike-toothed weapons have been confiscated from marijuana patches around the state, officials said. University of Hawaii drug researchers say they have uncovered no accounts of people killed or injured in the back country by growers' anti-theft devices. But police recall at least one instance where a man who claimed he was hiking in a Big Island forest was injured by an exploding booby trap.
Police also say marijuana is a bane to society.
We need to recognize there's a difference between substance use and abuse, and focus on reducing abuse.