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UK: Pensioner caught out cultivating cannabis
Estelle Marais Hounslow Guardian
Friday 13 Jan 2006 A 63-year-old man who cultivated cannabis plants on his allotment nurtured them because he took the drug for a medical condition, Richmond Magistrates' Court heard last Wednesday. The superintendent of the allotments called the police after he found the plants growing outside a shed at one of the patches, said prosecutor Mr Levy. Police arrived and found five plants outside the shed which they believed to be cannabis and a further six in various stages of drying out inside the shed, Mr Levy continued. The owner of the patch, David Stoker of Edgar Road, Hounslow, was contacted and confirmed he was the sole user of the allotment at Manor Road in Richmond. When the police went to his address they found a small amount of dried plants, the court heard. Stoker was questioned and he told officers that the plants had suddenly started to grow and although he believed they were cannabis he had not planted them, Mr Levy said. In total the plants amounted to 54.5 grammes. Stoker pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis. Speaking in his defence, solicitor Mr Clarke reiterated that Stoker had not planted the cannabis. The court was told that he nurtured the plants because he has a medical condition with symptoms that were relieved through smoking cannabis. The operation was not sophisticated and Stoker believes he would not be alive today if it weren't for him smoking cannabis, Mr Clarke continued. The magistrates felt that a custodial sentence was not appropriate so they sentenced Stoker to a conditional discharge for three years. http://www.hounslowguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.672559.0.pensioner_caught_out_cultivating_cannabis.php
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