POT GURU JURORS SAY THEY DIDN'T GET WHOLE STORY

Jurors who convicted marijuana guru Ed Rosenthal of cultivation and other
drug charges said Monday they would have acquitted him had they been told
he was growing medicinal marijuana for the city of Oakland.

Rosenthal, 58, the self-described "Guru of Ganja," faces up to an 85-year
prison term when sentenced June 4. Prosecutors today are scheduled to ask
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to revoke Rosenthal's bail.

After a two-week trial Friday, a 12-member federal jury unanimously
concluded that Rosenthal, a world-renowned marijuana advocate, was growing
more than 100 plants, conspired to cultivate marijuana and maintained an
Oakland warehouse for a growing operation.

The jury was not told that Rosenthal was acting as an agent of the city of
Oakland's medicinal marijuana program, which was an outgrowth of a 1996
medicinal marijuana initiative approved by California's voters.