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Local Doctor Sues Police Over Medical Marijuana Stings
POSTED: 5:44 pm PDT August 27, 2008
UPDATED: 6:54 pm PDT August 27, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has been
controversial for decades.
But now a local physician, Dr. Alfonso Jimenez, has hired an attorney
to represent him.
Jimenez wants to prevent law enforcement from conducting undercover
patient stings.
"What they did here is particularly insidious. They used the police
department to send in undercover officers posing as patients and they
were told by the district attorney and police chief to lie," said
Jimenez's attorney Steven Schectman.
Schectman said during an undercover investigation on his client,
officers were giving false identifications and medical histories.
In a written complaint, Schectman said his client was targeted for an
"undercover patient" investigation solely because he specializes in
alternative health therapies, including prescribing medical marijuana.
