JUDGE ORDERS CLOSURE OF MARIJUANA CLUB

A judge ordered San Francisco's largest medical marijuana club closed
Wednesday, saying founder Dennis Peron has admitted selling marijuana to
nonpatients.

Superior Court Judge David Garcia sidestepped the question of whether the
Cannabis Cultivators' Club could operate legally as a "primary caregiver"
for the club's 9,000 members under Proposition 215, the 1996 medical
marijuana initiative.

Instead, Garcia cited Peron's admission that he had sold marijuana to
people who were acting as primary caregivers for bedridden or hosital-bound
patients. Those sales are not authorized under Prop. 215, Garcia said.