Cannabis Campaigners' Guide News Database result:


After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back.

UK: Cannabis cafe owner guilty of drug charges

Ananova

Wednesday 02 Oct 2002

---

A man who opened an Amsterdam-style coffee shop to sell cannabis as
medicine for seriously ill people has been found guilty of drugs
offences.

Colin Davies was charged after opening the Dutch Experience cafe in
Stockport last year.

The 44-year-old claimed the shop's purpose was to supply cannabis to
those who needed the class B drug for medicinal purposes - an idea he
had after visiting coffee shops in Holland.

He was arrested after smoking a joint during a police raid on the shop's
opening day more than a year ago on September 15, Manchester's Minshull
Street Crown Court heard.

Davies was found guilty of three counts of possessing a Class B drug
with intent to supply, of supplying a Class B drug, of being involved in
the importation of cannabis and also for permitting premises to be used
for the smoking of the drug.

A jury of seven men and five women took just over five hours to reach
their verdicts on Davies who had denied all charges.


 

 

 

After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back.




This page was created by the Cannabis Campaigners' Guide.
Feel free to link to this page!