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US: Charge dropped against medical pot possessor Jefferson Robbins The Wenatchee World Online Friday 04 Nov 2011 Chelan County Superior Court Judge Lesley Allan dismissed the single charge of unlawful manufacture of cannabis against Joseph E. Amendolare, 31, whose Riverview Cemetery Road home was searched under warrant Sept. 14 by officers of the Columbia River Drug Task Force. Amendolare, who suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy, held medical authorization for the cultivation and possession of pot. But in charging documents, task force officers said they found "over 90 plants" growing inside and outside his home. Police cited complaints from nearby residents that Amendolare was growing marijuana outside the scope of the state's medical marijuana law. A single medical authorization allows a holder to possess 15 plants under state law, but that limit can be exceeded if the user can prove "medical need." Amendolare had three such authorizations — two posted with the plants growing outside and one found by police inside his home, for an allowable limit of 45 plants. But on Wednesday, Deputy Prosecutor Roy Fore told the judge that 50 of the plants seized were very small starts that weren’t usable as intoxicants; the remaining 45 mature plants were within Amendolare’s allowed limit. Among papers Amendolare's attorney Mark J. Carroll filed in the case was a Sept. 15 note from his client's doctor, Michael Travers of Lake Chelan Clinic. Travers wrote that marijuana and the lamotrigine anti-seizure medication was the only mix of drugs found to effectively control Amendolare's epilepsy. "This is the best combination that we have found," wrote Travers. “He should not go off either medication." http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/nov/04/charge-dropped-against-medical-pot-possessor/
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