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US CA: Pot Guru Jurors Say They Didn't Get Whole Story
ccguide Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 Pubdate: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA) Copyright: 2003 San Jose Mercury News Contact: Website: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390 POT GURU JURORS SAY THEY DIDN'T GET WHOLE STORY Jurors who convicted marijuana guru Ed Rosenthal of cultivation and other drug charges said Monday they would have acquitted him had they been told he was growing medicinal marijuana for the city of Oakland. Rosenthal, 58, the self-described "Guru of Ganja," faces up to an 85-year prison term when sentenced June 4. Prosecutors today are scheduled to ask U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to revoke Rosenthal's bail. After a two-week trial Friday, a 12-member federal jury unanimously concluded that Rosenthal, a world-renowned marijuana advocate, was growing more than 100 plants, conspired to cultivate marijuana and maintained an Oakland warehouse for a growing operation. The jury was not told that Rosenthal was acting as an agent of the city of Oakland's medicinal marijuana program, which was an outgrowth of a 1996 medicinal marijuana initiative approved by California's voters. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth
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