POT ADVOCATE'S JURORS SAY TRIAL WAS MISLEADING

SAN FRANCISCO -- A marijuana advocate and the jury that convicted him are
making an unexpected show of solidarity: Jurors claim they were misled, and
the defendant says it isn't them he blames.

Ed Rosenthal, the self-described "Guru of Ganja," was allowed Tuesday to
remain free on $200,000 bail until his June 4 sentencing on federal drug
violations.

Outside court, Rosenthal told supporters that he had "no regrets. Both the
jury and I were victims of persecution, of an illegal government action."

Jurors said they felt cheated because they weren't allowed to hear that
Rosenthal supplied Oakland's medical marijuana program, an outgrowth of a
1996 medical marijuana initiative that conflicts with federal law.

"I feel like I made the biggest mistake in my life," juror Marney Craig
said. "We convicted a man who is not a criminal."

Other jurors reached Monday agreed and planned to write to Rosenthal to
apologize.