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Actor who portrayed police officer "David Starsky" on TV fighting drug charge in Kentucky

FILE - This June 3, 2012 file photo shows actor Paul Michael Glaser attending A Time for Heroes celebrity picnic in Los Angeles. Paul Michael Glaser, the actor who played David Starsky in the 1970s police drama "Starsky & Hutch," is fighting a drug charge in Kentucky for what he says is medical marijuana from California. Bowling Green police charged Glaser with possession of marijuana and a pipe on May 10, hours after he read an excerpt of his young adult novel, "Chrystallia and the Source of Light," to students at a middle school. According to a police citation, Glaser, of Venice, Calif., said he had medical marijuana prescribed to him in California. He was arrested after an anonymous call to police that a man was smoking marijuana in a hotel. (Photo by Katy Winn/Invision/AP, file)

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The actor who played David Starsky in the 1970s police drama "Starsky & Hutch" is fighting a drug charge in Kentucky for what he says is medical marijuana from California.

The Daily News (http://bit.ly/NGCyPG ) in Bowling Green reports an attorney entered a not guilty plea on Thursday on behalf of 69-year-old Paul Michael Glaser of Venice, Calif.

Bowling Green police charged Glaser with possession of marijuana and a pipe on May 10, hours after he read an excerpt of his young adult novel, "Chrystallia and the Source of Light," to students at a middle school.

According to a police citation, Glaser said he had medical marijuana prescribed to him in California.

He was arrested after an anonymous call to police that a man was smoking marijuana in a hotel.

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