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HIGH TIMES NEWS As a result of the charges being leveled on a federal level, instead of a state level, neither Mr. McWilliams nor Mr. McCormick were permitted to defend themselves based upon the state-permitted medicinal use of marijuana. Todd McCormick was sentenced to a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, which has caused both his health and spirit to suffer irrevocably. Peter McWilliams was released on bail based upon his mother putting her house on the line to do so. Part of the bail requirement was that Mr. McWilliams not be permitted to use marijuana, which he was taking in order to relieve the constant nausea caused by the AIDS medication he was forced to take in order to stay alive. Shortly after this, Peter McWilliams died of a heart attack while vomiting, the direct result of being denied his number-one antinausea medication, marijuana.