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UK: 22,000 bars - choc full of cannabis
The Metro
Wednesday 06 Dec 2006 A couple ran a cottage industry making cannabis chocolate bars to ease the pain of multiple sclerosis sufferers, a court heard. Mark and Lezley Gibson sold 22,000 bars from home in six years before they were arrested. They were helped by Marcus Davies, an old school friend of Mr Gibson, who ran a post office box address. The Gibsons, both 42, and Davies, 36, deny two counts of conspiring to supply cannabis. Jeremy Grout-Smith, prosecuting, said police took action after 33 packets of chocolate labelled 'Canna-biz' were found at a Royal Mail sorting office in Carlisle on January 25 last year. At the Gibsons' home, officers discovered supplies of cannabis, chocolate bars, labels and mailing lists. Davies was also cultivating cannabis plants in two sheds, jurors were told. Mr Grout-Smith said the Gibsons, from the remote market town of Alston in Cumbria, advertised their bars as being for medical purposes. They were not conventional drug dealers, he said, but believed their actions would alleviate the pain of people with a debilitating illness. But he added: 'To supply cannabis because you believe it is doing good is no defence.' Mark Gibson claimed they had always sought proof that the recipients were MS sufferers, Mr Grout-Smith said. His wife is an MS sufferer and both he and Davies had stood in elections as candidates for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance. All are members of non-profit organisation Therapeutic Help from Cannabis for Multiple Sclerosis. Supplying cannabis, even for medicinal purposes, without authority is an offence which carries a jail term of up to 14 years. The trial continues at Carlisle Crown Court. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=28053&in_page_id=34 http://www.lca-uk.org -- 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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