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UK: Nurse 'used cannabis to ease asthma'
Ananova Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 A former nurse who said she smoked cannabis to relieve her asthma has been told by a judge: "You are not a criminal." Tracey Arnold, 34, has been spared jail despite pleading guilty to 13 offences of possessing 5.6 ounces of cannabis, an ecstasy tablet and a small amount of amphetamines. The Recorder Howard Godfrey QC gave her a conditional discharge, suspended for three years, saying it was unusual for someone to be sentenced so leniently for such a number of offences. But he added: "I am very conscious of the fact that you are not in any real sense a criminal." Southwark Crown Court heard that Arnold was looking after five children - three of which she had financial responsibility for - and had limited means. As she lived in a small village, she would not have been able to afford to travel to do community service, said the judge. Francis Fitzgibbon, defending, said Arnold, of Sandhurst, Kent, was a life-long sufferer of asthma and found cannabis therapeutic. Arnold, who had a previous conviction for possessing cannabis, was arrested last year with Kerrin Gold, 24. The cannabis was found in the back of her car and at her home. Gold, of Primrose Hill, north London, fled to South Africa but returned to admit responsibility for £9,500 worth of cannabis resin found in a holdall in Arnold's car. He admitted possessing the drugs with intent to supply and was jailed for two years.
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