Man sentenced in widely-watched medical marijuana case
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The Spokesman-Review reports that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice did not accept Jason Zucker’s explanation that the plants he and others grew on property in northeastern Washington state were for medicinal purposes.
The federal case was widely watched because medical and recreational marijuana is legal under state law in Washington.
Zucker was sentenced Friday. At trial in March, Zucker testified for the federal government against Rhonda Firestack-Harvey, Rolland Gregg and Michelle Gregg, saying he brought more than 70 plants from his home in Seattle to the Harvey property in 2011 and 2012.
Firestack-Harvey and the Greggs are scheduled to be sentenced later. The defendants had said they had medical marijuana cards and believed they were operating under the...
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