For those of you who have lived
indoors all of your life, Maui Wowie
is a type of marijuana that originated on the island of Maui. Today, it apparently
means any marijuana from Hawaii. While the Wrongologist has no direct knowledge
of the facts, it is reputed to be a very fine variety of the plant. It’s been brought to my attention that “Maui Wowie” can be commonly found if a medical marijuana patient was to look for the “higher-quality” cannabis strains using legal dispensaries or online alternatives such as if they were to Visit this website or similar medical marijuana providers. However, Maui Wowie is a high-THC strain, which is great for those who want to use marijuana recreationally for the psychoactive elements. This means it lacks in CBD, which is the component that usually makes cannabis medicinal. You can find strains that are higher in CBD at https://cannaunion.com/. If you get some hands on some Maui Wowie, it’s presumed that you just smoke it like you would with any strain of marijuana; whether that be through a bong or something similar to this sherlock pipe for sale is entirely up to you.
The Wrongologist has been to Maui
before, and that’s not to mean the Maui Wowie strain of cannabis has been tried and tested, although with all the ranting and raving about how nice the strain is, it might be some fun to look at some popular cannabis conventions to learn more about this increasingly popular medical substance. It’s to say The Wrongolist has actually been to Maui, so this week he made his second trip. This time to Hana, a very small town on the
easternmost tip of the island that is thought of as an unspoiled paradise. It
is accessible by a less-than-perfect road called the Hana Highway which is
anything but a highway. The so-called highway is very winding and narrow. It
passes over 59 bridges, 46 of which are only one lane wide. There are
approximately 620 curves along the route, virtually all of it through tropical rainforest. Many of the
concrete and steel bridges date back to 1910 and all but one are still in use. Infrastructure, anyone? A circumnavigation of
the eastern half of Maui is ~200 miles and takes about 12 hours.
A nice just-off the Hana Highway stop is Ke’anae. The volcanic nature of
the island is everywhere, but you can get really close to the volcanic rocks
and the waves at Ke’anae. Good public restrooms, too:
When the Wrongologist last traveled
to Hana in 1975, it was an unspoiled place at the end of the road. While Hana
is still described as “unspoiled”, it has evolved to be a tourist-centric
destination with a large hotel and some smaller properties, with many vans
driving tourists between the sights, so “unspoiled” is in the eye of the
beholder. Below is a photo of the still-unspoiled 200′ Wailua Falls. When the
water level is low like it was on Wednesday, you can climb down on the right
and swim in a small pool at the base of the falls.
Along the way are the homes of several
of the 1%. We passed Oprah’s 1000 acre place, from which she had a special road
built that allows her to make the trip to Wailea, an upscale town with spas,
shops, fancy restaurants and hotels in 15 minutes, about 1/3 the time that it takes the average
human on Maui’s curvy roads. Kris Kristofferson has a home in Hana, as does Jim
Nabors who grows macadamia nuts there. Woody Harrelson is a current resident. George Harrison lived there and now his place
has passed to his sister. Apparently, he used to have a plaque in a guest
bathroom that said, “the Beatles sat here.”
Here is a close up of a flower
taken at a small agri-business that specializes in sending cut stems to the US
so that people can propagate exotic tropical plants that are illegal to take out of Hawaii:
Wikipedia reports that Maui
County was the only county in the US that Dennis
Kucinich won during his unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic Party’s
presidential nomination in 2004. Draw your own conclusions; but John Kerry, the Party’s nominee, couldn’t win Florida.
The 2010 census indicates that
about 155,000 people live on Maui. The racial makeup of the county is 33.01% Asian,
28.90% White, 22.24% from two or more races and 10.72% Pacific Islander, with
the balance made up of Hispanics, African and Native Americans and other races.
This makes Maui a great place to
get sushi!
From an age perspective, 64% of
Mauians are under 44. 25.5% of Mauians are under 18, 7.70% are between 18 and 24,
30.90% are from 25 to 44, 24.40% from 45 to 64, and 11.40% are 65 years of age
or older. The median age is 37. Unlike the mainland, there are more males than
females: For every 100 females there are 100.90 males.
According to Maui
Now, Maui has very low unemployment by comparison to America as a whole.
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May dropped to 4.7% from
4.9% the month before, while Maui’s rate in May was 4.8%. The top employers are
the state and county governments, totaling 8500 workers, while some 6500 are
employed in the hotel sector on Maui. Maui Land and Pineapple, the largest
private agricultural company, employs 800.
The
largest cash crop on Maui is sugar from cane. An interesting fact is that it
takes 1000 gallons of water to produce one pound of sugar from cane, most of it
utilized in the growing process. The island apparently gets 60 billion gallons
of rainwater per year.
Overall, Maui appears to have 2
economies, a tourist-based service economy and a local economy driven by
agriculture, real estate and services for the locals. Owning real estate isn’t
cheap. The average price of a home in June was $817k, up 15% over last year,
while condos sold at an average price of $536k, up 13% over a year ago.
Maui makes you feel as if you
want to live here. However, the cost of living is higher than many small towns
on the mainland and while service industry jobs are plentiful, they are
low-paying.
Great place to visit!
(all photos by the Wrongologist)
