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  Pot Advocates Awarded $75,000
Posted by FoM on August 02, 2001 at 07:40:34 PT
By Jason Armstrong, Tribune-Herald 
Source: Hawaii-Tribune Herald 

hemp Hawaii County will pay $75,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed by two marijuana advocates who claimed they were unfairly prosecuted for their controversial views.

The Hawaii County Council voted 6 - 3 Tuesday to pay the money to Aaron Anderson and Roger Christie, who in 1995 sued the county, Prosecutor Jay Kimura and then - deputy prosecutor Kay Iopa, now a private defense attorney.

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