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UK: 'Courts should be dealing with rapists and criminals instead': Patient who grew cannabis for pain relief fails in appeal bid
Wales On-Line Wednesday 14 Oct 2015 A man who took to growing cannabis as a means of natural pain relief has failed in a bid to appeal his conviction for producing the drug. Thomas Patrick Farr, 32, was prosecuted after police raided his home – discovering a lone cannabis plant in his bedroom. Farr, of Manorbier Drive, Cwmbran, was convicted of producing the drug at Cardiff Crown Court in June, receiving a two-year conditional discharge. He travelled to the Appeal Court in London on Wednesday in a bid to overturn the jury’s verdict. At his trial, he admitted growing the cannabis, but insisted he had done so “to provide pain relief after surgery on his leg”. He told the Appeal Court he felt the legal system should be “dealing with rapists and criminals”, rather than people like him. He insisted his human rights were violated by the decision to prosecute him. But Judge Peter Rook QC, sitting with Lord Justice Fulford and Mr Justice Foskett, rejected his legal challenge. Farr had admitted that the cannabis found in his bedroom was grown by him, and there was simply “no merit” in his appeal, he ruled. “He had a fair trial and we reject his application’,” Judge Rook concluded. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/courts-should-dealing-rapists-criminals-10259956#ICID=sharebar_facebook
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