Pubdate: Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Source: The Daily News (Longview, WA)
Copyright: 2006 The Daily News
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3922
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MORE THAN 100 MARIJUANA PLANTS SEIZED IN  CLATSKANIE

CLATSKANIE - Oregon State Police, following up on a  tip from the
Washington State Patrol, seized  approximately 105 marijuana plants
Friday afternoon  from a Clatskanie-area residence. No arrests were
made  but the case is being referred to the Columbia County  District
Attorney's Office for review.

According to a news release from OSP, on Friday WSP  troopers stopped
a 2006 Dodge Ram pickup driven by  Darrel R. Lundeen, 58, of
Clatskanie, for speeding on  Interstate 205 southbound near milepost
35. During the  stop, WSP troopers arrested Lundeen after finding
individual packages of marijuana totaling 175 grams, as  well as drug
paraphernalia, in Lundeen's vehicle, the  news release said

WSP contacted Columbia Enforcement Narcotics Team  Oregon State Police
Detective Jeromy Hasenkamp with  information that Lundeen admitted
growing marijuana at  his Clatskanie home to give to people for
medical  purposes.

Detective Hasenkamp, along with OSP troopers and  Clatskanie police,
went to Lundeen's residence in the  15000 block of River Front Road in
Clatskanie, where  Lundeen consented to a search. According to the
news  release, troopers seized approximately 105 marijuana  plants in
various stages of growth.

Although Lundeen is registered to grow medical  marijuana for himself,
the amount is above the number  of plants an individual is allowed to
possess under  Oregon law, the news release said.

Lundeen was not taken into custody in Oregon.

Under Oregon's Medical Marijuana Act, which became law  through a
ballot initiative in 1998, a person who grows  marijuana for a patient
must be registered through the  Oregon Medical Marijuana Program and
is required to  have a grow site card displayed. The authorized person
  is limited to growing marijuana for up to four  patients, and is
limited to growing 18 seedlings or  starts and six mature plants per
patient. The seized  marijuana plants were above the number Lundeen
was  authorized to grow, the news release said.

There currently are 11,104 patients in Oregon with  medical marijuana
permits.
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