POLICE RETURN MAN'S MEDICAL MARIJUANA

HUNTINGTON BEACH - Acting on court orders, Huntington Beach police
returned 30 grams of pot taken from a medical marijuana patient last year.

An appellate court ruled in a Garden Grove case that seized medical
marijuana must be returned to a patient, and three weeks ago the
California Supreme Court declined to review the appeals court ruling.

That meant Huntington Beach resident David Alan Lucas could retrieve
his high-grade purple urkel marijuana and a couple of smoking pipes.
The 43-year-old man, who uses pot to relieve stress, says he's
surprised to get it back.

Police Capt. Chuck Thomas says the department is complying with the
court order. California voters in 1996 approved the Compassionate Use
Act allowing medical marijuana use.

- -- Herald wire reports