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UK: Man was growing 'medicinal' cannabis plants, Carlisle court told
In Cumbria Sunday 14 Apr 2013 Colin Robley, 62, believed the banned drug would be good for the medical problems from which he suffers. But he was charged with drug dealing after police found the plants growing at his home in Tree Tops, Nenthead, Alston Moor. At Carlisle Crown Court he was found not guilty of possessing the class B drug with intent to supply it. But on Thursday he was given a 10-week prison sentence, suspended for a year, and made to pay £535 court costs for cultivating the plants, a charge to which he had already pleaded guilty. The court heard that when they raided his home in March last year the police found 605 grams of cannabis in 22 brown paper bags. Experts said he had achieved a remarkably high yield from the 10 plants he had bought on the internet, thanks to the care he had lavished on them after reading books to learn how to look after them. If the crop had been sold as deals on the street it would have made about £6,000, the court heard. In mitigation, defence barrister Kim Whittlestone said Robley had only become involved with illegal drugs because he found the medicine prescribed by doctors did not work. She said he suffered from osteo-arthritis and angina, and had suffered a stroke on a previous appearance in court earlier this year. Ms Whittlestone said Robley’s GP had now given him a different medicine, which was proving effective so he did not need cannabis. http://www.in-cumbria.com/man-was-growing-medicinal-cannabis-plants-carlisle-court-told-1.1049582?referrerPath=news-archive
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