To: Jai D'Antoni
Editor
NORTH COAST NEWS

Dear Editor:

Your article, Ocean Shores Drug Bust Nets $200,000 In Marijuana and Cash, published in December of last year wrongfully accused a severely ill man of operating a large-scale, for-profit drug operation. Bruce Buckner is a qualified medical marijuana patient under Washington's Medical Use of Marijuana Act, RCW: 69.51A, and he is also a legally qualified Caregiver under that same statue. Not only did your article inflate actual figures far beyond reality, it also framed an innocent man. Please find the journalistic decency to print this letter and let your readers discover the truth of this case as it shall be presented in court.

Martin Martinez
Seattle, WA