MARIJUANA SALES CONTINUE DESPITE RULING BY JUDGE

It was business as usual at many of California's medical marijuana clubs
Thursday despite a court order prohibiting them from distributing the drug.

At Oakland's Cannabis Buyers Cooperative, clerks defied U.S. District Judge
Charles Breyer's ruling, made public Wednesday, by selling baggies full of
the drug to members who could show a doctor's recommendation and current
identification.

The Cannabis Healing Center in San Francisco did the same. Clubs in Ukiah,
the Marin County town of Fairfax and West Hollywood also opened and
distributed the drug as usual.

In his ruling, Breyer said Proposition 215, the November 1996 initiative
that legalized medical marijuana under California law, did not and could
not override the federal ban on the drug.