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Public Interest

Jul. 8, 2000

Medipot Users Endangered By Inconsistent Enforcement

Tim McCormick, the former cancer patient known as the "pot prince of Bel Air," received a five-year federal narcotics prison term in March, even though he and others said the thousands of marijuana plants he cultivated were strictly for use by seriously ill patients who needed it to assuage their pain, nausea and other symptoms.

        By Thomas D. Elias
        
        Tim McCormick, the former cancer patient known as the "pot prince of Bel Air," received a five-year federal narcotics prison term in March, even though he and others said the thousands of marijuana plants he cultivated were strictly for use by seriously ill patients who needed it to assuage their...

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