Former Marine wants marijuana plants back

Former Lance Cpl. Kevin Dickes could have faced up to six years in prison after police raided his home and charged him with a felony count of cultivating marijuana. But last week, a prosecutor dropped the charge after confirming that Dickes is a licensed grower of medical marijuana.


Former Marine wants marijuana plants back
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 20:06:06 EST

A former Marine and 1991 Persian Gulf War veteran is demanding that Denver-area police return dozens of marijuana plants they seized from his basement.

Kevin Dickes, 39, a construction worker and former lance corporal, could have faced up to six years in prison after Aurora, Colo., police raided his home April 27 and charged him with a felony count of cultivating marijuana.

But last week, a Colorado prosecutor dropped the charge after confirming that Dickes is a licensed grower of medical marijuana.

Dickes says he suffers severe pain in his legs stemming from shrapnel injuries sustained in Kuwait in early 1991. He was transporting a group of Iraqi prisoners of war when one of them detonated a grenade hidden under his clothing.

Dickes said he prefers marijuana to other pharmaceuticals. “It keeps me off the Percodine, and it’s better than OxyContin,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday.


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