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New Zealand: High Court judge accepts man's medicinal use of cannabis

New Zealand Herald

Saturday 13 Dec 2003

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A Christchurch businessman who was caught growing cannabis has escaped
without a conviction after convincing a High Court judge that he used it
medicinally.

Ian Murray Jackson, 55, admitted cultivating $12,000 of the drug in a
high-tech hydroponics operation at his home.

But the $300,000-a-year company director told the High Court at
Christchurch that smoking cannabis was the only way he could reduce the
pain of his chronic bowel condition at night and remain capable of running
his business during the day.

After hearing evidence from Jackson, his GP and a business partner, Justice
Graham Panckhurst accepted his claim that he used the cannabis to ease pain.

Jackson was ordered to pay $7500 costs and had the name and nature of his
business suppressed.

 

 

 

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