Excitement in Tiki Gardens

[HADave]

I try to read every thing I can about The Big Island and recently I picked up a not so pretty account of a murder in Puna. that being said it touch briefly on the subject of Marijuana and how big it was in Puna during the 70's.

Someone posted earlier their concerns for happening on to booby-traps, I wondered since what they might be. This book is a non-fictional account so I presume this info is credible. It seems that some growers and without doubt brings new meaning to the phrase "Godless Heathen Hippie" ( Thanks GL ), would go so far as to.....Stop! being an open forum I won't post what those traps were, for fear of the wrong people being enlightened, but let me say they are beyond belief by most of us. please be careful in the jungle- above, beneath and around you as you walk through known areas of old pot plantations and the suspected current ones. I understand better why some would think of Puna as being wild and lawless.. for a time it was.

This info was researched/written by Chris Loos, crime reporter for the Tribune Herald

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