POT CANDY FACTORY OWNER SENTENCED

The owner of an Oakland factory that produced marijuana candy with
names like Buddafinga and Mr. Greenbud has been sentenced to a year
in a halfway house and a year of home detention for conspiring to
manufacture and distribute marijuana.

Michael Martin, 34, of El Sobrante was also sentenced Wednesday to
five years of probation by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland.

Martin is the owner of Tainted Inc., which started as a boutique
business that made chocolate truffles and grew into a large
marijuana-candymaker that bought chocolate by the ton, authorities said.

Tainted Inc. employee Jessica Sanders was sentenced Wednesday to
three years' probation for using a phone to distribute marijuana, a
felony. Two other employees, Michael Anderson and Diallo McLinn - the
son of longtime Berkeley activist Osha Neumann - were each sentenced
in April to two years' probation on a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.