Cops refuse to help unlucky medical marijuana grower ....again

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Police refuse to help unlucky medical marijuana grower who has lost the pot... again

By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
19 May 2004

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Jason Beck is one of San Francisco's best known providers of medical marijuana. And that, in turn, is proving downright dangerous.

A few days ago, two intruders kicked down the door of his house, put a gun to his head and fleeced the place of several thousand dollars' worth of weed along with other valuables.

Mr Beck had previously decided not to keep his marijuana supply at his shop, Alternative Herbal Health Services, in part because of a armed robbery there last December, in which he was pistol-whipped five times and both he and his customers had their money stolen.

He would ask the police to give him better protection, but the police has a problem too. While the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes is both tolerated and fully legal under California state law, the federal government views it as a crime.
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