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November 26, 2003

Probation Granted to 3 Who Grew, Sold Pot as a Medicine

Probation Granted to 3 Who Grew, Sold Pot as a Medicine

By Jean Guccione, Times Staff Writer


In a victory for advocates of medicinal marijuana, officers of a defunct West Hollywood cannabis club were sentenced Monday to one year of probation for growing and selling marijuana to hundreds of people with cancer, AIDS and other serious ailments.

In imposing the minimum allowable sentence, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz chastised the prosecution.

"To allocate the resources of the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. attorney's office in this case … baffles me, disturbs me," the judge said.

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The judge noted that 85% of the center's 960 members have AIDS or are HIV-positive; 10% have cancer; and the rest have various other medical conditions.

"It is difficult to imagine a case where a defendant has contributed to the distribution of a controlled substance for more humanitarian reasons than what occurred here," his defense attorney, Ronald O. Kaye, argued in court papers.

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Under federal drug forfeiture laws, authorities seized $56,000 in the center's bank account and sold its building at 7494 Santa Monica Blvd. for $1.2 million.

The city of West Hollywood and Wells Fargo Bank, which financed the purchase, are trying to force the federal government to return a portion of the money.

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