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Prosecutors Won't File Charges Against Medical Marijuana Grower

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee February 10, 2010

From the ST:



Calling the law unclear, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Tuesday his office will not file criminal charges against a former Seattle man who police said had more plants at his community medical-marijuana garden than allowed under state law.


Mark Spohn called Seattle police on May 26 after four armed men, posing as FBI agents, entered his house and stole some of the recently harvested marijuana plants he was growing at his Wallingford garden. When police arrived they found that Spohn had more than 100 additional plants, which he was growing for himself and 20 other authorized medical-marijuana patients, according to court paperwork.


Police seized the bulk of what they found, leaving 15 plants — the state Department of Health's limit for an individual medical-marijuana patient — and forwarded the case to the Prosecutor's Office.



That's nice that prosecutors decided not to file charges, but hopeully SPD is also taking a closer look at how it deals with legal (or quasi-legal-but-not-quite-clear-under-state-law) grow ops.

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