FAMILY MEMBERS FOUND POT IN JACKSON'S BEDROOM

Rotting marijuana that Michael Jackson's family members mistook for
heroin briefly caused detectives to look for further evidence of the
illegal drug in the pop star's rented residence during the frenzied
48 hours after his death, according to sources close to the investigation.

Family members told coroner's officials that they found "tar heroin"
in the Holmby Hills home's master bedroom. Only Jackson and his
children had access to the room, according to court records unsealed
Thursday. The discovery prompted authorities to obtain a search
warrant for Jackson's house for heroin, hypodermic needles, cutting
agents, scales, balloons, condoms, razor blades, buyer lists, and
seller lists, among other items, documents show.

But within days, police had ruled out heroin as a factor in the
singer's death, sources close to the investigation said. Lab tests
showed that the purported heroin was actually moldy marijuana,
sources said. And, according to court records, a lengthy police
interview with Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray,
placed another drug, the powerful anesthetic propofol, at the center
of the investigation.

Law enforcement sources said that neither marijuana, cocaine nor
heroin were found in Jackson's system.

The search warrant records, unsealed at the request of several media
organizations, show that police seized 12 bottles of the sedative
temazepam, several other prescription drugs and empty medication
vials from Jackson's house the day after his June 25 death. As part
of the investigation, police searched Murray's car June 29, records
show. But according to the search inventory, the only items seized
were a business card for an executive handling Jackson's London
concerts, a contract and an envelope with miscellaneous writing.

In another warrant made public Thursday, a federal agent wrote that
Jackson's longtime friend and physician Dr. Arnold Klein had
self-prescribed medication 27 times during a nearly three-year period.

The allegation prompted a federal magistrate to sign off on a search
last week of Mickey Fine Pharmacy, which Jackson frequently used.

State records showed that Klein had self-prescribed Vicodin, Valium,
the sedative midazolam and modafinil, a drug used to improve wakefulness.

Klein's attorney, Garo B. Ghazarian, said Klein never self-prescribed
any medication, but the lawyer declined to explain the drug-tracking records.