By: Solomon Moore
Source: New York Times
Government lawyers asked a federal judge on Thursday to impose a five-year sentence on the owner of a marijuana dispensary, less than a month after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that federal authorities would not prosecute owners of medical marijuana shops if they complied with local and state laws.
But the United States attorney for the Central District of California, Thomas P. O’Brien, argued that the dispensary owner, Charles C. Lynch, had broken state laws because he was not a primary caregiver to his customers — a requirement under California law — and provided no medical services beyond the sale of marijuana.
