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Larry Harvey | Medical marijuana advocate, 71

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 03:03
Larry Harvey, 71, a northeastern Washington man at the center of a nationally watched medical marijuana case, has died of pancreatic cancer, six months after the federal government dropped charges against him.

Mr. Harvey died Thursday in a hospital in Colville, Wash.

Mr. Harvey and four others - including his wife, two relatives, and a friend - faced charges after they were caught about three years ago growing about 70 pot plants on their rural property near Kettle Falls. They were known as the "Kettle Falls Five."

Mr. Harvey said he used the drug to ease pain from gout, but the government argued that the operation did not comply with the state's medical marijuana law.

 

The case outraged medical marijuana advocates because Harvey faced at least 10 years in prison. Also, while marijuana use remains illegal under federal law, its recreational and medicinal use is legal in...

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