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UK: The chocolate that left eaters on a high
The Journal
Wednesday 06 Dec 2006 A north couple ran a cottage industry producing bars of chocolate containing cannabis for multiple sclerosis sufferers, a court heard yesterday. Mark and Lezley Gibson, herself an MS sufferer, are accused of distributing about 22,000 bars from their home over a six-year period before their arrest last January. They were helped by Marcus Davies, of St Ive's, Cambridgeshire, an old school friend of Mr Gibson, who operated a Post Office Box address for the couple, a jury at Carlisle Crown Court heard. The Gibsons, both 42, and Davies, 36, all deny two counts of conspiring to supply cannabis in 2004 and 2005. Prosecutor Jeremy Grout-Smith told the jury that police took action after receiving a complaint that 33 packets of Canna-biz chocolate had been discovered at the Royal Mail sorting office in Carlisle on January 25 last year. A few days later officers entered the home of the Gibsons and discovered items including cannabis, chocolate bars, labels, mailing details and a coffee grinder, the court heard. Mr Grout-Smith said the Gibsons, of Front Street, in the remote market town of Alston in Cumbria, were in effect running a cottage industry making chocolate bars impregnated with cannabis. He said they were not conventional drug dealers - but believed their actions would be helping people alleviate the pain of a debilitating illness - however that was no defence to these charges. He said Mark Gibson, during his police interview, had admitted sending about 22,000 bars to addresses around the world. They had always sought proof that the recipients were MS sufferers. Supplying cannabis, even for medicinal purposes, without proper authority is a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years' jail, plus a fine. The trial continues. http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/ -- Please sign these petitions: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/search?q=Cannabis+ WebBooks Amazing Amazon Store: http://astore.amazon.co.uk/webbooks05
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