Drug Dealers on Pahoa Main Street

[Chunkster]

I drove through central Pahoa the other day for the fist time in almost a year, and it looked pretty bad. The part that dismays me is the fact that the usual group of Pahoa focused civic activists who were touting the improvements just a year or so ago are nowhere to be seen or heard when there is an obvious slide back toward something resembling a Detroit ghetto scene, albeit one with a tropical backdrop. So we have a town with a heavy concentration of the few amenities in Puna, but people are uncomfortable going there to enjoy them. What's wrong with this picture?