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UK: Choc bars were laced with drug
Cambridge Evening News
Wednesday 06 Dec 2006 HOMEMADE chocolate bars containing cannabis with a street value of around £20 were supplied by post to multiple sclerosis sufferers for pain relief, a court heard yesterday (Tuesday, 05 December). Gift shop manager Mark Gibson, 42, and his wife Lezley, 42, who has MS, both from Alston, Cumbria, and Marcus Davies, 36, from St Ives, "made no secret" of their involvement in such activity to police, Carlisle Crown Court was told. But the trio deny two charges each of conspiring together to supply cannabis throughout 2004, until February 2005. Police seized 33 jiffy bags containing "Canna-Biz" chocolate bars from the Royal Mail sorting office in Carlisle on January 25 this year. The depot's duty manager alerted officers after one of the packages fell open as it was being sorted, spilling out one of the 150g bars, later found to be each laced with 3.5g of cannabis. Jeremy Grout-Smith, prosecuting, told the court all the packages had a PO Box in Huntingdon as the return address, which was later traced to Marcus Davies. He also said bar wrappers were printed with a website address of an organisation called Therapeutic Help from Cannabis for Multiple Sclerosis, www.thc4ms.org which was later found to be run by all three defendants. He said the website advertises a service supplying cannabis chocolate "for medicinal purposes" but "only requests a donation" in return. Police raided the home of Mark and Lezley Gibson in Alston in February. Mr Grout-Smith said: "They seized cannabis chocolate bars, labels and packages. "They also found some machinery for the manufacture of the bars - pots, pans, and a grinder - all to be used in what was a cottage industry to make chocolate bars impregnated with cannabis. "When analysed, they were found to contain 3.5g of cannabis each, ground up and distributed throughout the 150g bar." A list of 460 addresses to which the bars were being sent was also found at the Gibson's house. The court heard Davies' house in St Ives was searched by officers in June. Details were found of three bank accounts, registered in the name of his girlfriend, into which around £40,000 of cheques had been paid between March 2003 and March 2005. The trial is expected to last seven days. ? Have you tried a cannabis chocolate bar? Contact the newsdesk on (01223) 434439 or email newsdesk@cambridgenews. http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/huntingdon/2006/12/06/080a2f35-7f1e-42ec-9d01-f10248d203f1.lpf -- 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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