State grants return of Assenberg’s plants

Gazette Editor

Michael Assenberg, Colfax marijuana grower who became part of the state medical marijuana debate, packed a heaping box of paper bags full of marijuana out of the Whitman County sheriff’s office Monday morning.

Michael Assenberg carries a box full of bagged marijuana out of the sheriff’s office Monday morning.

The paper bags containing marijuana plants had been held in custody since officers seized the plants in a search of the Assenberg home on S. Mill Street in May of 2011.

Assenberg collected the packages after Superior Court Judge David Frazier Friday approved the defendant’s...