Pubdate: Tue, 05 Mar 2002
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Copyright: 2002 Hearst Communications Inc.
Contact:  http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/388
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NOT-GUILTY PLEA ENTERED IN POT-GROWING CASE

An expert on growing marijuana pleaded not guilty yesterday in federal 
court to charges that he supplied cannabis to a San Francisco medicinal pot 
club.

Ed Rosenthal of Oakland, who has written more than a dozen books on 
cultivating marijuana, is one of three men charged with producing more than 
100 marijuana plants for sale at the Harm Reduction Center, a San Francisco 
medicinal marijuana club.

The Feb. 12 raid was the third in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court 
ruled last year that federal anti-drug law makes no exception for seriously 
ill patients using pot under California's medicinal marijuana law, 
Proposition 215, approved by voters in 1996. 
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