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UK: Cannabis user produced drug for own use
The Sentinel Saturday 11 Jun 2011 Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday heard police stopped a Mercedes van in Corporation Street, Stoke, which was being driven by the defendant, at 11.20pm on November 7. Police searched the van and recovered eight bags of cannabis weighing a total of 17 grams with a street value of £100. Westwood said the drugs were for his own use. Police then searched the defendant's home in Jubilee Avenue, Etruria. Inside officers found 12 plants and hydroponic equipment and lighting. There was more cannabis in a "drying tent". A fingerprint from a pole in the growing room matched Westwood's. He told police he bought the eight bags of cannabis found in his van. He accepted he grew the plants at his home and said it was all for his own use. The 43-year-old defendant, of Quarry Road, Hartshill, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis and possession of cannabis resin. Nick Tatlow, mitigating, said Westwood was a very heavy user of cannabis when he committed the offences. He said the estimated yield of the plants was quite high because Westwood has abilities as a grower. Mr Tatlow added that Westwood had greatly cut down his cannabis use. Judge Michael Dudley sentenced Westwood to a 12-month community order with 160 hours' unpaid work. He told the defendant: "You are being sentenced on the basis all the cannabis was for your own use and there was no suggestion of supply to anyone. That's what saved you from a custodial sentence." see also: http://alunbuffry.blogspot.com/2011/06/cannabis-user-produced-drug-for-own-use.html http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Cannabis-user-produced-drug-use/story-12754172-detail/story.html
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