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UK: Man grew £13k cannabis crop to kick codeine Andrew Dickens Cambridge News and Crier Thursday 14 Jul 2011 Police uncovered 45 one-metre high plants and "copious" amounts of hydroponics equipment belonging to Tony Osborne when they raided an address in The Whaddons, Huntingdon, on March 23. Osborne, of Wilberforce Terrace, Huntingdon, pleaded guilty to producing Class B drugs at an earlier hearing. But Huntingdon Crown Court heard this week he had grown plants worth £13,841 to substitute a codeine addiction picked up from a prescription for a stomach ulcer last year. The 30-year-old was prescribed codeine in September but doctors terminated his dosage after they found out about the addiction. John Kirkpatrick, mitigating, said Osborne had turned to cannabis to stop his codeine habit. Mr Kirkpatrick said: "He had a stomach ulcer for which he was prescribed codeine and he became addicted. He then started to grow his own cannabis to stop his addiction – that's how he came to cannabis and he wanted to grow it to pay for his own use." Osborne, who had no previous convictions, received a 12 month community order under which he must carry out 130 hours unpaid work. He was also put under a supervision order. Recorder Roger Harrison said he had decided Osborne's reasons for growing cannabis were "strictly personal". He told Osborne: "Copious growing plants and hydroponics equipment to cultivate the drug were found and I agree that this was for your personal use and a medical one. I have taken the codeine addiction into account. "But this mitigation can only be used once and if you appear in court again it is unlikely you will be spared jail." Jacob Edwards, prosecuting, said that a tent, used to cultivate the plants, was also found. He said: "Police were tipped off when a strong smell of cannabis was reported coming from the premises." http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Huntingdon-St-Ives-St-Neots/Man-grew-13k-cannabis-crop-to-kick-codeine-14072011.htm
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