A Superior Court Judge in Sonoma County ordered narcotics officers to return 1 1/4 pounds of marijuana to a patient who twice survived breaking his neck, and suffers from chronic pain.
This is the first time in Sonoma County that a judge has ruled that marijuana be returned to a patient. On Oct. 1, 1998, Scott Teeter’s home was raided despite his status as a medical marijuana patient. Fifty marijuana plants and a quantity of marijuana were seized.
Teeter was cited for misdemeanor possession of more than an ounce of marijuana, but those charges were dropped in July of 1999. Last week Judge Gayle Guynup ruled that the narcotics officers must reimburse his marijuana loss.
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