Tobacco Sales to Minors Hit All-Time Low

Tobacco sales to minors hit all-time low

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The survey, a series of random, unannounced inspections conducted by the department's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division and the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, found a noncompliance rate of 4.3 percent, compared with 6.1 percent last year and the …
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Is Brooke Mueller an unfit mother?

Filed under: Honolulu Drug Use

In considering Mueller's very public battle with substance abuse, the fact that she remains in custody of her three and a half year old twin sons, Bob and Max Sheen, is a mystery. … http://www.tmz.com/2012/12/10/brooke-mueller-rehab-adderall-drugs-od …
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A small-time criminal, locked up forever

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"Even though you have been involved in drugs and drug dealing," Vinson told George, "your role has basically been as a girlfriend and bag holder and money holder but not actively involved in the drug dealing, so certainly in my judgment it does not …
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Drug dealers swiftly skirt state's laws

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Criminal chemists already have found a way to circumvent a new Hawaii law to crack down on synthetic drugs, but local authorities are fighting back. Act 29, signed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie in April, made it illegal to sell, buy or use nine families of …
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