cannabisnews.com: Grower of Medical Marijuana Is Convicted Grower of Medical Marijuana Is Convicted Posted by CN Staff on January 31, 2003 at 22:03:02 PT By Dean E. Murphy Source: New York Times A federal jury today found the author of marijuana books and advice columns, Ed Rosenthal, guilty of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy. Under mandatory sentencing laws, Mr. Rosenthal faces a minimum of five years in prison.Mr. Rosenthal, 58, who admitted to growing the plants for distribution under California's medicinal marijuana law, known as Proposition 215, called the verdict a "terrible decision" and vowed to fight it. His lawyers said they would prepare motions for a new trial immediately. "What the federal government is trying to do is destroy Prop 215 and eliminate medical marijuana from California," Mr. Rosenthal said. Proposition 215 "will outlive the Bush administration, it will outlive Ashcroft and it will outlive all of these cruel people who want to stop people from getting their medicine."The law, passed by voters as an initiative in 1996, permits the cultivation of marijuana as medicine for seriously ill people. Mr. Rosenthal was growing starter plants in a warehouse in Oakland, in his capacity as an "officer of the city" under Oakland's medical marijuana ordinance. The plants were distributed to organizations and clubs that serve the seriously ill.Besides California, eight other states allow the sick and dying to smoke or grow marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.But the judge in the Rosenthal case, Charles R. Breyer of United States District Court, did not allow Mr. Rosenthal to raise the California law as a defense since Mr. Rosenthal was indicted under federal law. Federal law does not permit marijuana cultivation for medicinal purposes.Complete Title: Grower of Medical Marijuana Is Convicted on Federal ChargesSource: New York Times (NY)Author: Dean E. MurphyPublished: January 31, 2003 Copyright: 2003 The New York Times Company Contact: letters nytimes.com Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Related Articles & Web Sites:Green-Aid.comhttp://www.green-aid.com Americans For Safe Accesshttp://www.safeaccessnow.orgEd Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articleshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/trialpics.htmJury Finds California Marijuana Guru Guilty http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15342.shtmlGuru of Ganja Convicted of Marijuana Cultivationhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15340.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #3 posted by The GCW on February 01, 2003 at 06:18:00 PT Here's another... "No bud should be cut before its time." - Ed Rosenthal, "Closet Cultivator" - [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by The GCW on February 01, 2003 at 05:30:26 PT p4me, Cannabis Culture brought that to Me... YES, the Dickens quote is a bulls-eye: "I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth." -Dickens- Here's another..."If laughter really is the best medicine, then hemp is the Mayo Clinic in a window box." - Tom Robbins - It is a revolving quote, at the top of http://www.hempbc.com/ I take Your given credit and offer it to Cannabis Culture, which is where I know of Ed. Ask Ed is linked at the lower left.+This is the story from C.C. about Ed's court decission yesterday.Ed Rosenthal found guilty http://www.hempbc.com/articles/2821.html& My question.Why did Christ God Our Father tell Us He gave Us ALL the green seed bearing plants, on the very 1st page of the Bible? [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by p4me on January 31, 2003 at 22:49:18 PT Compassionate Use Act seems more appropriate Proposition 215 was a ballot initiative to bring the people's will into law because the legislatue of California is controlled by the same monied interest as Warshington and its citizens are bombarded with the same propaganda and silence as everyone else. The legislation should be referred to as the Compassionate Use Act. The media chooses their terms for propaganda purposes. The best two examples I can think of are death taxes used in the marketing for the repeal of all estate taxes desired by Americas billionaires and the term partial-birth abortion even though there is no medical procedure in practice. The fascist don't want the word Compassion heard in the CUA. They probably would have an infiltration of government goons and start a mixed message slogan. If the propagandist wanted MMJ we would hear the term Compassionate Use Act repeatedly and they would be using taxpayer money to sell it and would never want it reduced to CUA because it eliminated their buzzword, Compassionate. They like calling tyranny, freedom and we have got to stop this crap now. I like CUA because of keystrokes and the economy printed billions of times will help our cause an iota. We need to get a lot of iotas going. I would like to give GCW credit for the paragraph of the day when he quoted Dickens- http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15340.shtml#16 Talk about prophetic.Dickens- "I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth." [ Post Comment ] Post Comment