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Friday, June 15, 2007

Veteran Arrested For Medical Marijuana

Centennial - A Desert Storm veteran is challenging the state's medical-marijuana law after he was arrested on charges of growing 71 of the plants in his basement.

Kevin Dickes says he needs the marijuana to help him with the pain he has suffered daily since a grenade landed next to him in Kuwait when he served there as a Marine in 1991. He has no feeling below his right calf and suffers from chronic vascular disease. Dickes said he may lose part of his right leg.

"I use it for the pain. It helps me tremendously," Dickes said Thursday in Arapahoe County District Court after pleading not guilty to marijuana cultivation, a Class 4 felony.

Dickes, 38, faces up to six years in prison if convicted of the charge. His attorney has filed a motion to dismiss the cultivation charge. That matter will be discussed at a hearing next month.

Denver Post

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