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Pot Grower Plans To Keep Lighting Up

Less than two weeks after a drug raid at his home netted 82 marijuana plants, Michael Adam Assenberg vowed Monday to continue lighting up, growing pot plants in his basement and delivering medicinal cannabis products throughout Whitman County. "I'm tired of all the ripoffs patients have to go through," said the 51-year-old Assenberg. "So I decided to open up Compassion 4 Patients, and it really is about the compassion." For the past four months, Assenberg said he's been harvesting his cannabis crop, converting it into smokable and edible medicines and using a 35-year-old ambulance to deliver products to upward of nine patients. "It's very easy to find out what I'm doing because I went on Craigslist and various newspapers and such," Assenberg said. "I have advertised that I'm out there to help patients"/David Johnson, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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