Former ‘Starsky & Hutch’ Star Fighting Drug Charge In Kentucky

First Published: August 31, 2012 7:34 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- Caption Paul Michael Glaser arrives at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s 23rd Annual ‘A Time For Heroes’ Celebrity Picnic at Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles on June 3, 2012The 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 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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