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UK: Drugs campaigner 'grew plants for medical purposes' (Winston Matthews) Amy Taylor Get Surrey Friday 02 Sep 2011 Winston Matthews, of Upfield Close, Horley, pleaded guilty at Guildford Crown Court on Wednesday (August 30) to three counts of cultivating cannabis plants, and to two of possessing the class B drug. An outspoken member of Surrey's Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA), Matthews, 50, said that he uses the drug for medical purposes. According to his defence barrister, Ben Cooper, Matthews was recently diagnosed with Hepatitis C, in addition to a number of other serious medical conditions, and creates tinctures, or alcoholic extracts, from the plants that he grows. He was charged with growing a total of 84 plants on three separate dates between August 23 and December 16 last year, and to having 4.75g of cannabis and 7.36g of cannabis resin on his person on December 16. Defending, Mr Cooper told Judge Peter Moss that Matthews felt "discriminated against as a medical user of cannabis", and that he had been convicted of similar matters on previous occasions. The case was adjourned until October 14 to allow for medical reports on his condition to be drawn up before sentencing. Releasing him on bail, Judge Moss told Matthews that he had to live at his given address and remain 'drug-free' for his appointments with the probation service. "If what he says is right, then he is going to be doing it every day," he said, addressing his defence team. "What concerns me is that he's probably still growing it. If the police were to go down there now there would probably be another indictment." http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2099106_drugs_campaigner_grew_plants_for_medical_purposes
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