Hawaii Officials PUSH Drug Dealers into West Waikiki

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The Liquor Commission of the City and County of Honolulu (HLC) notified me around April 15th that Three Peaks Brewing, LLC petitioned for Category 1 liquor license for a Standard Bar in the Discovery Bay Center at 1778 Ala Moana Blvd located at LL-05. Their bar would remain open until 2am. Maybe spoke with about 100 residents and small business owners.

UPDATE 11.7.25: BARS are BAD
Harvard researchers have found that people who drink three or more alcoholic drinks a day may suffer a stroke more than a decade earlier than people who drink less. The research, published this week in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, links heavy drinking to not just earlier strokes, but also larger, deadlier brain bleeds and long-term brain damage.

Having a beer or glass of wine with dinner is one thing. Sitting in a bar drinking until 2am poisons people and destroys their health. Men are more likely to engage in abusive drinking than women.

WE WARNED Three Peaks about forcing their way into this residential space. This area of Waikiki is filled with hard-working people, families with young kids, and essential professionals. East Waikiki is the fun place to be. We seek quiet times. Discovery Bay lower level floods often and has many plumbing issues. Should have asked McDonalds. 

You can follow our opposition group here. Alcohol isn’t cool. Don’t be a fool.

9.26.25: Three Peaks Still Closed for Plumbing Repairs
Tried to warn owners. This location bad for business. Old-time kama’aiana reported the space suffered major flooding issues when another group attempted to locate a bar in the lower level. We also warned the Honolulu Liquor Commission. They have a corrupt confrontational system. Bad for business as well. Arrogant officials ignore The People. The People vote with our dollars. Recessionary winds are blowing in Waikiki.

The process created many angry residents who live in the Discovery Bay complex or nearby. Piss off potential customers, they won’t support the establishment, and coconut wireless is effective urging others to stay away. We suggested an aloha approach — but officials and these owners demanded to push drug dealers into family spaces.

Quick update: we were all set for the big Grand Opening but a surprise plumbing issue came up. Not exactly the fun kind of surprise! So we are hitting pause to get it fixed and make sure everything is perfect for you.

New date coming soon and we promise it will be worth the wait! Stay tuned here for the update. Thanks for rolling with us. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

Three Peaks Social Media

UPDATE 8.29.25: HLC Violates Opposition Rights to be Notified and Informed
Our GROUP in OPPOSITION to HLC’s intent to grant a Category 1 liquor license for Three Peaks Brewing, LLC, to operate a standard bar in the Discovery Bay Center continues to be DENIED our legal right of due process to be included in the review and informed of HLC actions. Initially, I filed OUR protest: HRS §281-58 Protests. Protests against the granting of a license may be filed by any person. Many people in the area oppose, but most people do not want their name to be make public due to high rate of retaliation in Hawai’i.

Three Peaks, LLC posts to their website they are opening August 30, 2025, although our registered opposition group has not been informed by HLC.

We oppose granting of this license, and anticipate HIGH VOLUME of Complaints from the public. HRS §281-61 Renewals. (a) Other than for good cause, the renewal of an existing license shall be granted upon the filing of an application; provided that if:

(1) Complaints from the public;
(2) Reports from the commission’s investigators; or
(3) Adjudications of the commission or the liquor control adjudication board,

indicate that noise created by patrons departing from the premises disturbs residents on the street or of the neighborhood in which the premises are located, or that noise from the premises or adjacent related outdoor areas such as parking lots or lanais exceed standards contained in state or county noise codes or intrudes into nearby residential units, the commission may deny the renewal application or withhold the issuance of a renewed license until corrective measures meeting the commission’s approval are taken.

(b) The commission or board, pursuant to section 281-17, at the time of renewal or at any time, may revoke, suspend, or place conditions or restrictions on any license issued under this chapter for the purpose of preventing activities within the licensed premises or adjacent areas that are potentially injurious to the health, safety, and welfare of the public and neighborhood including but not limited to criminal activity, including assault, drug dealing, drug use, or prostitution, upon proper notice to the licensee, and a hearing before the commission pursuant to chapter 91.

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Sketchy bar crowd, and alcohol promotion around kids, teens and families lead opposition. Big concern is more late night noise in area. A third of Americans aren’t waking up well-rested, with daily exhaustion starting as soon as they get out of bed. Recent study found lack of quality sleep is top physical drain of 42% of respondents. By 11:54 a.m. average person starts to fade completely.

Americans are also reducing their use of deadly, addictive alcohol. Americans increasingly think that alcohol consumption is bad for their health, according to a Gallup Poll. In 2024, 45% of Americans said drinking one or two alcoholic beverages a day is bad for one’s health, a new high.

“Sobriety is this new culture wave. I think this is a new phase of our evolution of humanity.”

John Plageman, who stopped drinking 16 years ago

More than ever, people are seeking alternatives to alcohol, from $15 mocktails and sober dating, to waking up early for sober raves and wearing T-shirts branding their sobriety. Hawai’i officials are behind the times. Majority of residents do not want more drugs in our neighborhood.

We are reaching out to ACLU-HI and M.A.D.D. The majority of residents in our area DO NOT want more drug dealers in our neighborhood. ACLU of Hawai‘i (“ACLU-HI”) currently welcomes their newest staff member, Sergio Alcubilla, as the Director of Community Engagement. Sergio will oversee the communications team and lead community organizing and public education efforts centered on the organization’s priorities. Sergio seeks to “breathe new life” into the ACLU-HI program. Outstanding. Please start by assisting residents in Waikiki.

One supported — only one — Asian male, who has wife and young daughter. Wrote to me, “I understand some time it is to noisy buy there not lot to place to drink around here.” He belongs at home with his family at 2am, rather than out drinking.

Research suggests alcohol is losing favor with Americans and they are drinking less. Executives from Jack Daniel’s parent company, Brown-Forman Corp., warned that the business is seeing pressure from cannabis, weight-loss drugs and lackluster demand from Generation Z. 

Hawai’i officials are encouraging to a company that seeks to increase sales of alcohol. Hawai’i levies the third highest taxes on beer, and government wants to sell more — regardless the impact on local communities. Highest tax burdens on beer are Tennessee at $1.287 per gallon, Alaska at $1.07 per gallon, and Hawaii at $0.93 per gallon. Lowest, by comparison, are levied in Wyoming at $0.019 per gallon, Missouri at $0.06 per gallon and Wisconsin at $0.065 per gallon.

Former Governor Linda Lingle derailed the will of the majority of Hawai’i residents to legalize recreational cannabis a year ago. Claims Japanese visitors don’t like the smell. We don’t like the smell of stale beer or alcohol and cigarette smoke. Residents have demanded reform within the Liquor Commission for decades.

It’s now a ritual of every few months. A commissioner or leader of the HCL [Honolulu Liquor Commission] resigns in scandal and then Blangiardi trots out to talk about the change as an opportunity and then eventually presents a new appointment as the golden ticket to positive change. In the last weeks, another Chair resigned after an incident at a local bar.

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My name is Scott Goold. PhD work is political science, economics and focus on public health. I am certified by the University of New Mexico School of Medicine as an Addiction Counselor. I’ve been a M.A.D.D. activist for over 30 years. In my professional opinion, my Asian friend belongs at home with his family at 2am, rather than out drinking.

Petitions in Opposition to Drug Dealers in our neighborhood.
SEE: Opposition to Liquor License Request
SEE: First Supplement
SEE: Second Supplement
SEE: NOTICE of INTENT to SEEK INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

ISSUES OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Current occupant in the White House is ripping our nation to pieces in part to stem the flow of illicit fentanyl across the border. According to the CDC, estimated deaths in U.S. due to synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) in 2024 was 48,422. Number is high, but a significant decrease in fentanyl-related deaths compared to 2023: 76,282.

Alcohol is also a dangerous drug. Most recent CDC statistics estimate alcohol caused about 178,000 deaths in 2022. This estimate is 29% increase from just a few years earlier (2016–2017), when there were an estimated 138,000 deaths per year.

Alcohol kills nearly FOUR TIMES more Americans than deadly illicit fentanyl. Men are twice as likely to die from alcohol as women: 119,600 deaths among boys and men; 58,700 deaths among girls and women. That’s why my Asian friend belongs at home with his wife and daughter.

In April, the World Cancer Research Fund ruled women should be avoiding alcohol just as strenuously as cigarettes as “any amount of alcohol increases breast cancer risk.”

GET M.A.D.D.

Year was 1992, Christmas Eve, family of my hanai teammate Lance Milford, Paul and Melanie Cravens and girls Kandyce, 9, Erin, 8, and Kacee Woodard, 5, had driven up to Nine Mile Hill. Wanted to admire the city lights, and say “Merry Christmas! This is what Jesus has given us.”

They never made it to the gathering with extended family. Drunk Gordon House sped 90 miles per hour in the wrong direction on I-40 in Bernalillo County and plowed head-on into the Cravens’s family. Paul woke in the hospital Christmas day, IV in arm, heart monitors on this chest, badly bruised body and head bandaged. Crisis nurse gently took his hand, “You were in a terrible accident last night. Your wife and three daughters were killed.”

MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS !!!

There were at least 101 traffic fatalities statewide in 2024, up from 92 deaths in Hawai’i the previous year. Alcohol and excessive speed are the primary culprits. A drunk White male crossed the center line in Idaho last week killing about seven Asians in a tour van.

Why is alcohol so deadly? Alcohol is easy to access and widely available. We aren’t alcohol prohibitionists. Discovery Bay Center has a long-established Standard Bar, Tropics. There’s Cannabis Cove, 21 and over, next door. Good space for adult recreation.

Hawai’i officials now PUSH additional drug dealers into west Waikiki — against the majority will of our vibrant community. This area is frequented by kids and small families. Three Peaks Brewing doesn’t fit the culture.

ISSUES OF POLITICS

For a business to receive a liquor license, they must petition the Liquor Commission and stand for public hearing. Legislators created these laws, because all know alcohol is a dangerous drug. Two-thirds of alcohol-related deaths come from chronic conditions, which develop from drinking alcohol over time, several types of cancer, heart disease, liver disease, and alcohol use disorder.

Another third of alcohol-related deaths occur from binge drinking or drinking too much on one occasion, such as motor vehicle crashes, alcohol-involved drug overdoses, alcohol poisonings, and deaths by suicide.

Why are these deaths occurring? Alcohol is easy to access and widely available. Businesses however make money; businesses pay taxes to government. The few profit at the expense of the many.

The Liquor Commission in theory must provide the public with due process and an opportunity to oppose the drug dealers. The Supreme and our nation’s highest courts grapple with the issue of due process at this time. Due process means government may not act unless citizens have been fully and duly informed and have a fair opportunity to respond. Residents and small business owners were not fully and duly informed about drug dealers pushing into our quiet, peaceful community.

The political bar to block a Standard Bar is impossibly high on residents and small business owners. The law tilts toward drug dealers. Corruption in Hawai’i is high. The State of Hawai’i is a corporation and supports other corporations over the people. From the time of kings, the people are treated as pawns and peasants to work the fields, make the beds and keep the lights on.

The burden on residents and small business owners is disproportionately heavy. Ordinary folks must mount an aggressive, confrontational, time-consuming, labor-intensive campaign to push out the drug pushers. It’s a David vs Goliath battle and the people are without slings and arrows.

The Liquor Commission considers residents and small businesses as protestors. Oi, brah, we no protestors. We DEFENDERS.

Commissioners seek to push dealers of a dangerous drug into our small community. The Liquor Commission locates a Standard Bar just feet from a health food establishment patronized primarily by women and children. Men will be drinking; women and children enjoy Brazillian Açaí bowls. That’s why more men die from alcohol.

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ISSUES OF ECONOMICS

As a professional economist and business intelligence consultant, I’m uncertain Three Peaks Brewing did their due diligence on market research. Company lists an address of 1720 Ala Moana Blvd — apparently an apartment about half-block Ewa direction from the drug establishment. Three Peaks Brewing lasted only 18 months in Kailua before permanently closing their doors.

Three Peaks Brewing plans to be open until 2am nightly. Parking in the area is extremely limited. Foot traffic minimal. Our ‘Ohana consists of small families with young children, medium to long term visitors, service industry workers, professional employees, highly-skilled contractors who serve our national defense infrastructure located in Pearl Harbor and military bases, and numerous small businesses that provide support for the community.

Three Peaks Brewing offers craft beers. There is another bar about 100 feet Lēʻahi direction. Tropics is about 75% utilized and reportedly adding a whiskey bar. The two establishments will battle over the small pool of limited clients to remain profitable and stay in business.

ISSUES OF CULTURE

There are many restaurants in the area that offer alcohol with food. Close by 10pm. Only drunks continue drinking til 2am. Drunks will emerge from their cave at 1778 Ala Moana Blvd, LL-05, to smoke cigarettes at the nearby bus stop. This behavior is illegal. Smoke near the entrance to the Discovery Bay Center. This behavior is prohibited. Drunks are likely to toss their cigarette butts on sidewalks or grounds. This behavior is disgusting.

Drunks are likely to stagger up the stairs to hurl alcohol throw-up on amenities. Drunks are likely to be excessively loud while hard-working people need to sleep and get their rest. Drunks are known to get in fights, be aggressive and cause civil disturbances. Drunks are known to bother or molest wahine, sexually harass or abuse women, and occasionally rape. This behavior is criminal.

Drunks are likely to get behind the wheel. State representatives Sharon Har hit a curb driving drunk the wrong way on Beretania Street, and drunk Matt LoPresti nearly hit Ewa beach. Drunk former UH football coach June Jones simply hit the accelerator. Corrupt Hawai’i judges gave all a pass. Drunk Gordon House wiped out an entire family. Three Peaks Brewing does not fit within our local culture.

The Liquor Commission demanded we provide the list of our DEFENDERS. Commissioners would then provide Three Peaks Brewing with our names, addresses, and put targets on our backs. We therefore keep our list private. I represent the DEFENDERS of west Waikiki in this matter.

THREE STEP DEFENSE STRATEGY

Spoke to about 100 residents and small businesses owners. We are ready if needed. Step 1: ask each Defender to contact five people. We’re now 500. Step 2: ask the 500 to contact 5 more people. We’re now 2,500. Step 3: ask the 2,500 to reach out to five additional residents. Defenders now number over 10,000 strong. We own the Coconut Wireless.

We are the protectors of our homes, children and small community. Drug dealers are not welcome. We asked nicely.

DEFEND Waikiki :: Kū Kia‘i Waikiki 

All the commissioners with the Liquor Commission are men. Too many men love to drink and men tend to abuse alcohol. We defend women and children. Women led the temperance movement in the late 19th century.

Families migrated to cities in the late 1800s. Men worked long, hard hours in factories. On the way home, stopped off at bars and taverns. They drank away their day’s wages, and returned home to beat their wives. The US experimented with prohibition 1920-1933 due to the deadly drug of alcohol. Prohibition fails in a free society. Prohibition of cannabis (marijuana) has been a disaster as well.

To Commissioners Hong, Hullinger, Sakamoto, Hyun and Cundiff, and Investigator Takeda Yasuhiro, you are warned. We are DEFENDERS. You denied us due process. You push drug dealers into our west Waikiki ‘Ohana without our consent. You demanded confrontation. You have received public notice.

Kū Kia‘i Waikiki :: Kū Kia‘i Waikiki :: Kū Kia‘i Waikiki 

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