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UK: Cannabis 'should be legal', says man fined for possession
Cambrian News Tuesday 04 Sep 2018 Charles Ellis Langsdale, 51, appeared before Aberystwyth magistrates on Wednesday, and, representing himself, called for the case against him to be dismissed. Langsdale, of 5 Bertheos Park, Creuddyn Bridge, later pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of 2.1g of herbal cannabis and 4.07 grams of cannabis oil in March last year after the court refused to dismiss the case and was on the verge of sending it to trial on a not guilty plea. Langsdale told magistrates after asking for the case to be dismissed that he “understood it was illegal” to possess cannabis but that bringing cases such as this were a “waste of taxpayers’ money”. He said that the cannabis helps with his “bad legs” and that there is “no moral reprehensibility about what I have done”. “It (cannabis) enables me to walk,” he told magistrates. “I wouldn’t be here today without it.” Langsdale has several previous convictions for cannabis possession, the court heard, the last of which was in November last year. Langsdale was currently on a conditional discharge for that offence when the latest one took place. The court heard that police officers attended the Bertheos caravan park on an “unrelated matter” when one officer noticed a “strong smell of cannabis” coming from Langsdale’s caravan. The door of the caravan was open, the court heard, and the officers entered. A search of the caravan resulted in the drugs being found in a drawer. Langsdale was fined £80 by magistrates for the possession of the cannabis and ordered to pay a £30 surcharge and £85 costs. He was also fined £50 for breaching the previous conditional discharge. A destruction order was made for the drugs. Upon leaving the dock, Langsdale told magistrates: “Hopefully you won’t see me again, because hopefully it will be legal next time.” http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=123719&headline=Cannabis%20%E2%80%98should%20be%20legal%E2%80%99,%20says%20man%20fined%20for%20possession§ionIs=news&searchyear=2018
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