By Ryan J. Reilly
The Huffington Post
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The wife of a California medical marijuana provider who is facing 10 years in prison after being indicted by federal authorities last year is appealing to President Barack Obama to end her family’s “nightmare.”
Matthew R. Davies, 34, is the former owner of a Sacramento medical marijuana dispensary known as Medizen. He was indicted last July for manufacturing marijuana, along with co-owner Lynn F. Smith and warehouse grow operation manager Robert Duncan, by federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.
In a letter to be sent to Obama on Monday and obtained exclusively by The Huffington Post, Molly Davies writes that her family is “confused and absolutely terrified” at the prospect of her husband spending a decade behind bars. Davies referenced Obama’s comment, made in an interview last month, that his administration wouldn’t focus on prosecuting recreational marijuana users in Washington and Colorado because there were “bigger fish to fry.” Her husband, Davies wrote, wasn’t a big fish.
