Radio, video & print Media

Interview w/ Bob Martin on KNKR 96.1 Radio (click photo for recording link)

Na Leo TV Political Forum State House District 7 (Click photo for video link)

---

Hawaii Tribune Herald (12/16/15)

Jeff Coakley, president of the North Kohala Community Association, said rules requiring medical marijuana to be grown in an “enclosed indoor facility” are not enough to allay concerns about an increase in crime and the disruption of what currently is a quiet rural community.
​Coakley said the association is meeting with other community groups throughout the state and on the mainland, and might challenge the new law in court.
“Indoors, outdoors, suspended from the ceiling doesn’t really matter. What matters is they took away our right to vote on this,” Coakley said. “We’re trying to keep Kohala Kohala, and it is rural.”

West Hawaii Today (10/1/15)

Organizer Jeffrey Coakley ...advocated for creating a community organization for the members to get together and have more influence in government.
Coakley is a Vietnam veteran, and said he fought a year there to spread democracy.
He said the marijuana law and other actions by the state government made him feel that his freedom of speech was being limited.
He said he is “finding more and more places without a right to voice our opinions.”