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43,899. Mexican drug gangs now control 70% of the US Meth market. (Drugs & Hawaii & Crystal Meth) Drugs Inc s3e3: Hawaiian Ice, 2012
43,900. 58.8% of men arrested in Honolulu tested positive for Meth in 2011. ibid.
73,656. Hawaii ranks second in the US for Meth-related hospital admissions. (Drugs & Crystal Meth & Hawaii) Drugs Inc: Going to Extremes, National Geographic 2015, Steve
75,535. Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. Paul Theroux
106,771. An island paradise teeming with life. But they soon found out this new-found wealth was exhaustible. (Hawaii & Paradise & Animal) Natural World s25e9: Hawaii: Message in the Waves, BBC 2017
106,772. Of all the ecosystems they depended on, the reef was the most important and the most fragile. (Hawaii & Paradise & Animal) ibid.
106,773. About a million residents but a further seven million people arrive each year for a few weeks in paradise. (Hawaii & Paradise & Animal) ibid.
106,774. ‘Call some place paradise and kiss it goodbye, yeah?’ (Hawaii & Paradise & Animal) ibid.
121,210. Hawaiian society was as complex as its engineering projects … This hierarchical society produced a singular art form … Feather work had many applications, and today indigenous Hawaiians are still using this old technique. (Art & Hawaii) James Fox, Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific s1e2: Polynesia
128,642. In the waning days of summer 1931 the false calm of Honolulu Hawaii was shattered by a single allegation made by a 20 year old Navy wife. (Murder & Hawaii) American Experience: The Island Murder, PBS 2018
128,643. ‘She says she was kidnapped … and raped six or seven times.’ (Murder & Hawaii) ibid. Dude
128,644. ‘The death of an innocent young man.’ (Murder & Hawaii) ibid. Lady
128,645. The quiet whisper of the original lie grew to a clamorous din of power politics and racism … The story of the Navy wife and her alleged assailants. (Murder & Hawaii) ibid.
128,646. ‘They had him [Joseph Kahahawai] under threat of a gun and demanded that he confess. At a certain point one of them pulled the trigger and shot Joseph.’ (Murder & Hawaii) ibid. dude
128,647. It made no sense to Darrow’s friends his defending Grace Fortescue … The $30,000 was too enticing. (Murder & Hawaii) ibid.
128,648. Fortescue et al: Guilty. (Murder & Hawaii) ibid.
128,649. After four days of pressure the governor finally caved, agreeing to reduce the sentence from ten years to one hour. (Murder & Hawaii) ibid.