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  • Judge rules Colorado's medical marijuana law is no defense for federal drug charges

    09/22/2010 5:46:41 PM PDT · by george76 · 189 replies · 3+ views
    ap ^ | September 22, 2010
    A pot grower won't be allowed to use Colorado's medical marijuana law to fend off federal drug charges. The decision Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer means that Christopher Bartkowicz faces a possible life sentence on federal marijuana cultivation charges. Brimmer said that suggestions by the White House that the U.S. government wouldn't pursue pot cases in states that allow medical marijuana cannot be used as a defense on federal drug charges.
  • Marijuana grower: "I was compliant with state law"

    09/10/2010 8:16:45 AM PDT · by george76 · 74 replies
    Denver Post ^ | 09/10/2010 | John Ingold
    Chris Bartkowicz, the Highlands Ranch medical-marijuana grower facing federal drug charges for his basement operation, said Thursday that he was panicked and scared when agents confronted him outside his house. In the first time he has publicly said more than a few words about his February arrest, Bartkowicz said he was reluctant to talk to the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who would eventually arrest him and hesitant about letting them search his house. But, he said, he ultimately thought he could address their concerns. "I believed that if I explained to them that I wasn't illegal, that I was compliant...