Supporters of marijuana activist and author Ed Rosenthal, whose felony convictions were overturned Wednesday by a federal appeals court, said Thursday a pending House bill would save the government millions while ensuring nobody else need endure what he and his jurors did. ASA legal campaign director Kris Hermes said Thursday if Rosenthal's jurors had not felt the wool was being pulled over their eyes by a justice system unwilling to let Rosenthal tell his whole story, the confusion leading to the juror's misconduct would not have existed.

A federal appeals court overturned the pot-growing convictions of a prominent advocate of medical marijuana Wednesday because of a juror's phone call to an attorney friend, who told her to follow the judge's instructions or she could get in trouble.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned the self-proclaimed "Guru of Ganja's" pot cultivation conviction because of jury misconduct, but otherwise upheld federal powers to charge marijuana growers.

A Northern California congressman is among 150 lawmakers nationwide who will be pressured by protesters Friday to change their votes on an amendment which would halt federal raids on medical marijuana patients, caregivers and cooperatives.

Proposition 215, the state's pioneering initiative that made it legal for doctors to recommend pot to patients, has gained significant support across all segments of California's population since voters approved it in 1996, according to a Field poll released today.

Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed "Guru of Ganja" who could have been sentenced to as long as 80 years behind bars, walked free today after a federal judge sentenced him to one day in prison for a marijuana conviction.

This is the extraordinary saga of one jury that, after the judge said, "Case closed," simply refused to be excused -- or to excuse the judicial system.

Jurors who convicted Oakland medical marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal keep saying they now wish they had not done so, something they said most recently to a national television audience Friday.

"Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong." Alexander Hamilton, 1804

California's state and federal leaders are taking steps to make sure that what happened to marijuana activist Ed Rosenthal never happens to anyone else.

The disappointing verdict in the Ed Rosenthal case may end up doing more t ignite California voters than a hung jury would have done. Now, the media is reporting that jurors were not told all the truth, a majority of jurors are saying they felt used and that if they had known the whole truth they would have voted acquittal. One juror has described this as the greatest mistake of her life -- one she will never forget.

Common sense will tell you that something went terribly wrong in the courtroom of federal Judge Charles R. Breyer.

The Bush administration may have just won a case against medicinal marijuana in a federal court, but prosecutors' shameful tactics should cost President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft dearly in the court of public opinion.

On January 31 a federal jury found Ed Rosenthal guilty on three counts of marijuana cultivation. The well-known author and cannabis expert faces an mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison. Yet in an unusual move, a majority of jurors in the case have said they made a mistake and have called for a retrial.