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Helena Independent Record, 05 Jan 2013 – Had Faced Up To 20 Years In Prison MISSOULA — A federal judge spared a former partner in one of Montana’s largest medical marijuana businesses jail time on Friday, straying only slightly from a joint sentencing recommendation by defense and prosecuting attorneys.

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Helena Independent Record, 03 Jan 2013 – Paul Schmidt, owner of the former medical marijuana dispensary Sleeping Giant Caregivers in Helena, has been sentenced to one year in prison for growing marijuana and money laundering and ordered to forfeit $750,000 in alleged profits. In letters to Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Lovell, friends wrote that Schmidt, 57, only became a caregiver after seeing how medical marijuana helped his adult son deal with debilitating, chronic pain and deserved little, if any, prison time.

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Montana Standard, 24 Dec 2012 – It is a grand irony that on the front page of the Helena Independent Record was an article on Montana medical marijuana caregiver Chris Williams facing years in federal prison for growing and selling the substance. Meanwhile, on the back page of the sports section, a story ran about how some of the biggest banks in the world laundered billions of dollars for drug cartels and will get off with out anyone going to jail.

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Helena Independent Record, 19 Dec 2012 – In Exchange For Him Waiving Right To Appeal In a highly unusual move, federal prosecutors have agreed to drop six of eight marijuana convictions for Christopher Williams in exchange for his agreeing to waive his right to appeal.