Reddit reviews Hell-Bent: One Man's Crusade to Crush the Hawaiian Mob
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Modern culture?
There’s “Hell Bent”: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Bent-Mans-Crusade-Crush-Hawaiian/dp/0762793031/ref=nodl_
It’s actually a very accurate recounting and a good read. Unfortunately, it is NOT about the happy stuff that Hawaii is known for.
Hawaii became a Republican-American Republic after the overthrow, then a US Territory, then a US state. Mainland America is still firmly entrenched in the Imperial units of measurement to this day, originally used by the British (now called SAE, Society of Automotive Engineers).
>The British pound has its origins in continental Europe under the Roman era. Its name derives from the Latin word "poundus" meaning "weight". The £ symbol comes from an ornate L in Libra. The pound was a unit of currency as early as 775AD in Anglo-Saxon England, equivalent to 1 pound weight of silver.
The song is referring to the late 70's, early 80's, when Pahoa was still a major sugar plantation area. Pahoa village is actually a plantation village.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_puna.html
Ever heard of Kona Gold? It was huge in the 70's and 80's. There is quite a history there, touched on briefly in several books:
https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Bent-Mans-Crusade-Crush-Hawaiian/dp/0762793031
It wasn't a Hawaiian mob, it was tourist transplants that started up marijuana growing and smuggling operations. There are several wealthy families that got rich during this time, up around Kona. Anyway, this period of time is why Hawaii has dragged its feet with marijuana acceptance. There was a time in the 80's, the illegal cannabis export trade exceeded the value of all the other exports combined, including sugar, coffee, orchids and papayas.
https://www.civilized.life/articles/the-history-of-marijuana-in-hawaii/
The real irony here is with Brexit, the British will return to the Pound Sterling as their currency standard. It will mean a major economic disaster for them, with the rest of the planet on a floating currency system with the dollar as the standard, and not reserves of precious metal like gold and silver as a currency standard. England going back to the Pound Sterling will be based on however much silver reserves the Crown has.