The owner of an Oakland factory that produced marijuana candy with names like Buddafinga and Mr. Greenbud has pleaded guilty to conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana.Michael Martin, 33, of El Sobrante entered a guilty plea at a hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Oakland. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 2 by Judge Claudia Wilken.
Martin is the owner of Tainted Inc., which started as a boutique business that made chocolate truffles and grew into a large marijuana-candy maker that bought chocolate by the ton, authorities said.
Tainted Inc. employee Jessica Sanders has been charged with illegally using a phone to distribute marijuana, a felony, while employees Michael Anderson and Diallo McLinn - the son of longtime Berkeley activist Osha Neumann - were each charged with a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.
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