A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Diary Of A Mad County

Marvin Chavez can only wish he's headed to a cushy MDA jail. The California
Supreme Court today declines to consider the Orange County
medical-marijuana activist's appeal of his 1998 pot-possession conviction.
The 48-year-old Santa Ana resident originally got six years for providing
medical marijuana to undercover cops who used a fake doctor's note to get
the weed. Chavez was freed on $25,000 bond pending an appeal but could now
be forced to serve the remaining 21 months on his sentence. "The question
is when do I go back to state prison and how long?" he soberly tells
supporters.