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DESCRIPTION:In an incredible waste of limited federal resources, The U.S. Attorney's 
 office, represented by "Mr. Marijuana for the government", Asst. U.S. 
 Attorney George Bevan Jr., wants to re-indict medical cannabis guru Ed 
 Rosenthal and Richard Watts, son of noted philosopher Alan Watts, in a 
 mockery of the justice system by persecuting sick and dying medical 
 cannabis patients. \n\nFederal agents raided Rosenthal's Oakland home, his 
 warehouse grow-op and the 6th St Harm Reduction Center in February 2002 and 
 charged the pair with multiple cannabis felonies. Ed Rosenthal was 
 convicted in 2003, after a travesty of a trial in which medical marijuana 
 could not be mentioned. After the verdict was announced, nine of twelve 
 jurors recanted their decision, saying if they'd have known it was about 
 medical cannabis, they wouldn't have voted guilty. \n\nJudge Charles Breyer 
 sentenced Ed to one day, and concluded Rosenthal had "reasonably" but 
 erroneously believed that he was acting legally because of his support from 
 local officials, saying that "extraordinary, unique circumstances of this 
 case" justified an exemption from the usual five-year minimum term . Rick 
 Watts has spent the last five years in federal probation, in legal limbo, 
 awaiting trial for the same offenses. \n\nIn April 2006, the United States 
 Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed Rosenthal's convictions and 
 remanded his case to U.S. District Court for retrial, due to possible jury 
 misconduct. The U.S. Attorney's Office has the power not to retry him or 
 Rick Watts, yet they choose to squander valuable taxpayer dollars by 
 prosecuting Rosenthal and Watts in an obvious miscarriage of justice and 
 subversion of the will of California voters who voted for Proposition 215 
 in 1996.\n\nWe call on all outraged medical cannabis patients, their 
 caregivers and supporters to phone or fax the U.S. Attorney's office [ph.: 
 (415)436-7200 fax: (415)436-7234] to demand they immediately cease their 
 prosecution of both cases, as well as all those currently awaiting trial 
 for medical cannabis related offenses and for the federal government to 
 release all medical cannabis prisoners currently in custody. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/12/18308284.php
SUMMARY:Rosenthal/Watts Press Conference
LOCATION:Phillip Burton Federal Building; 450 Golden Gate Ave.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/12/18308284.php
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