The Legislature fails us again. Thank you for the article on how Hawaii’s Legislature has killed the legislation to legalize recreational marijuana (“Hawaii lawmakers decide again not to legalize recreational pot,” Associated Press, March 2).

A huge majority of the state of Hawaii favors legalized recreational marijuana. But what does the Legislature do? It ignores us.

Some of these political hacks blame the feds as to why it might take years to ever accomplish any sane marijuana legislation.

What if it took the taxpayers years and years to send in their checks to the state of Hawaii tax collector? Would the legislators be more inclined to be responsive to public opinion, if they had trouble funding the government?

Phil Robertson

Kailua

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