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New Zealand: Man grew cannabis - for pain relief

Marlborough Express

Wednesday 18 Jul 2012

A 63-year-old man told the Blenheim District Court he grew his own cannabis, which he used for pain relief, to save himself from buying it.

"I tried it and it helped me sleep," Robin Michael Morresey, of Grovetown, said yesterday after admitting charges of cultivating cannabis and driving over the legal alcohol limit.

Morresey said he had been on painkillers for 13 years after an accident, and a person with cancer introduced him to medicinal marijuana last year. He had no previous drug-related convictions.

"Instead of going out and buying it, I thought I'd grow it myself. I didn't even know if they'd grow," he said.

Judge John Walker sentenced Morresey to three months' community detention, with a daily curfew of 9pm to 6am, disqualified him from driving for six months, and placed him on six months' supervision.

The cultivating cannabis charge came after three large cannabis plants and two smaller plants were found at his home.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/7298210/Man-grew-cannabis-for-pain-relief

Morresey was stopped while driving in Morgans Rd, Blenheim, with an breath alcohol level of 849mcg (the legal limit is 400mcg) on March 19. He told the court that it was totally out of character for him to drive in that condition.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/7298210/Man-grew-cannabis-for-pain-relief

 

 

 

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