MAN SHOT, FOUR FACE CHARGES

Police have laid charges against four men after a Portland man was
shot in the leg in September while thieves stole his medicinal marijuana.

The pot pirates raided the man's home in September, wearing police
jackets and barging in early in the morning. When he protested, they shot him.

Police later said the man was licensed to have medicinal marijuana in
the home and the thieves targeted his cache.

The government no longer directly supplies the drug to patients with
prescriptions -- used to relieve things like chronic pain or nausea
- -- but allows them to either grow their own or designate someone else
to grow it for them.

A 20-year-old man from Innisville is charged with attempted murder,
impersonating a police officer, using a firearm during the commission
of an indictable offence, break and enter and conspiracy to commit an
indictable offence.

A 23-year-old man from Smiths Falls is charged with conspiracy to
commit an indictable offence and breach of probation.

Two Ottawa men, aged 33 and 37, are charged with conspiracy to commit
an indictable offence.