Violence Prompts Debate Over Medical Marijuana
SEATTLE — A shooting and a beating death linked to medical marijuana have prompted new calls by law enforcement officials and marijuana advocates for Washington State to change how it regulates the drug and protects those who grow and use it.
Thom Weinstein/Seattlepi.com, via Associated Press
Steve Sarich, a marijuana grower, who shot an intruder, shows the wound he received in the robbery.
In the past week, a man in Orting, Wash., near Tacoma, died after he reportedly was beaten while confronting people trying to steal marijuana plants from his property. On Monday, a prominent medical-marijuana activist shot an armed man who is accused of breaking into his home in a suburban area near Seattle where he grows and distributes marijuana plants.
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