For the second time this year, a Sonoma County jury has done what the state Legislature has failed to do for the last three years: interpreted the California Medical Marijuana law.

A jury last week found Ken Hayes and Michael Foley not guilty on several counts connected to the cultivation of 899 marijuana plants for distribution through a medical marijuana club in San Francisco.

Hayes and Foley were arrested at their home on King Road in Petaluma in May of 1999. Police seized 899 plants, 15 pounds of dried marijuana, a pound of hashish, scales, receipts and a shotgun. At the time, Hayes was executive director of Cannabis Helping Alleviate Medical Problems, a San Francisco medical marijuana dispensary which had been honored by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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