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N. Ireland: Drug Sales Financed Cannabis To Treat Pain
Belfast Telegraph
Tuesday 12 Sep 2000 Subject: N. Ireland: Drug Sales Financed Cannabis To Treat Pain Source: Belfast Telegraph Pubdate: 12 September 2000 Drug Sales Financed Cannabis To Treat Pain A COMPUTER programmer who claimed he started supplying friends with cannabis resin to raise cash to buy the drug to relieve serious back pain has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence. In Newry Crown Court yesterday Sean Fintan McAleenan (29) of Beechfield Park, Rostrevor, pleaded guilty to possessing 127 grammes of the drug and having them with intent to supply. Police found the cannabis concealed in the kitchen at McAleenan's home when a search was carried out in March. Defence counsel John Kearney handed in to Judge David McFarland a medical certificate indicating that McAleenan had sustained a serious back injury in 1991 resulting in ongoing problems. McAleenan had started to self treat with cannabis for the pain. The judge ordered that pounds 215 seized during the search should be donated to the NI Children's Hospice Appeal.
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