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UK: Cannabis Group Attacks 'Unjust' Penalty
The Plymouth Herald Sunday 18 Jan 2009 The Legalise Cannabis Alliance ( LCA ) said that people in constant suffering such as 36-year-old Wyatt should not be penalised by the law. Wyatt, pictured right, of St Mary Street, Stonehouse, was sentenced to eight months in prison for producing cannabis and 12 months for supplying the drug, to run concurrently. But Judge Francis Gilbert suspended imprisonment for two years at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday. Wyatt, who has a working diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome but is also being tested for multiple sclerosis, admitted using cannabis for medicinal purposes. He often turned the drug into a paste which he rubbed on to his body. He also admitted that he supplied the paste to other people in pain. The court heard that police had visited Wyatt and found quantities of cannabis and a small hydroponic growing set-up. A spokesman for the LCA said: "This is an outrageously unjust misapplication of the law. "The Misuse of Drugs Act was supposedly created to try to protect people from the risks of harm from certain drugs, not to prevent people from growing a few plants to use to ease their pain and suffering. "How can it be just to send a man to prison, or to torture him by keeping him away from pain-relieving plants when he has caused no trouble, done no harm and posed no threat? "It is a sad day for British justice when the law is misapplied in this way -- when an innocent man gets punished. The judge rightly said that nobody is above the law -- which proves beyond doubt that the law now needs to be changed." Wyatt faces a prison sentence if he is caught producing or supplying cannabis again in the next two years. He refused to say outside the court whether he would give up the drug. http://thisisplymouth.co.uk/
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