Waiting to inhale: S.F. cops keep busting medical marijuana growers

by SFBG

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 10:09AM

GROWING MEDICAL MARIJUANA in San Francisco these days means never knowing when or if you'll get busted. State law and city policies purport to allow and even encourage growers like Patrick White to cultivate marijuana for the city's estimated 6,000 authorized users and 18 dispensaries.

Yet the lack of clear guidelines defining when legal medicines become illegal narcotics has allowed the San Francisco Police Department – led by zealous narcotics officer Sgt. Marty Halloran – to decide when to destroy the garden and jail the gardener.

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