MARIJUANA SEIZURE ANGERS ADVOCATES

PORTLAND - Clackamas County sheriff's deputies seized 110 marijuana plants
this week from a greenhouse in Woodburn, despite the growers' objection
that the plants were authorized under Oregon's medical marijuana law.

Shawn Flury of Oregon Green Cross said he is certain of his right to grow
marijuana, and plans to replant his crop.

He said he is collecting plants from other medical marijuana groups around
the state and hopes to have plants in the ground as quickly as possible.

He said the group serves about 35 patients who depend on a free ounce of
marijuana twice a month to ease their ailments.

However, sheriff's officials say they seized the plants from the group's
rented greenhouse on South Elliott Prairie Road because the operation
lacked the documentation needed to grow that many plants.