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Subj: US FL: Wire: Acquittal In Marijuana Case
From: EWCHIEF
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:23:52 -0700
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n575.a06.html

Newshawk: EWCHIEF
Pubdate: Sat, 29 May 1999
Source: United Press International
Copyright: 1999 United Press International

ACQUITTAL IN MARIJUANA CASE

BRONSON, Fla., May 29 (UPI) - A letter from a doctor apparently persuaded Levy County jurors to acquit a Bronson man of marijuana possession charges.

Forty-nine-year-old Michael Stauff was arrested in January for possession of two-tenths of one gram of the illegal weed.

He has a 1997 letter from a University of Florida doctor indicating daily marijuana smoking relieved his back pain so he could take fewer opiod pain relievers.

Every potential juror indicated they felt more research should be done to determine the value of marijuana in medicine.

It took the six jurors selected only minutes to find Stauff not guilty Thursday.

Stauff remains jailed because he was arrested for allegedly selling prescription pain killing drugs Wednesday.

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