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Green_T


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Ex-soldier grew cannabis to ease pain [UK]
#13467024 - 11/11/10 02:33 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ex-soldier grew cannabis to ease pain [UK] November 11, 2010 - Manchester Evening News
A former soldier who had to quit the army because of a back injury, became a cannabis ‘farmer’ because he used the drug to relieve his pain, a court was told.
James Mills, 26, began growing the plants in the loft of his mother’s home in Salford, to feed his own habit.
But he was so good at it that his reputation became known, and he went on to be paid £100 a week to nurture cuttings for others, and help grow them to maturity.
He was caught out when a van he was in was stopped by police in Cheetham Hill because of a defective rear light.
Cannabis plant material was discovered in the rear, and officers asked for the keys to search his property.
Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court was told that he immediately made a full confession about what they would find.
Officers discovered 230 pots of cannabis plants under cultivation, cannabis flowering heads, and equipment including a lighting and watering system.
Peter Edmondson prosecuting, said the total potential yield from the plants was estimated at being worth over £9,000.
When interviewed about the cannabis farm, Mills of Tootle Drive, Weaste, said it had been an income. He said he was paid £100 a week by a man he refused to name, to grow cuttings. He had been unable to find work, and producing the plants was better than the dole.
Rachel Shenton, defending, said the farm had not been a sophisticated enterprise, and that Mills found that the drug was more effective in dealing with his back injury than prescription painkillers.
She said others involved in the drug culture became aware of what he was doing, and became involved.
She said: “He was not the mastermind. He did not make huge amounts of money from it.”
The court was told that Mills, who now has a job with a mobile phone company, had been depressed and anxious about his court appearance.
Judge Timothy Mort told him that he was giving him a chance, and gave him an eight-month prison sentence which will be suspended for 18 months.
He will have to carry out 120 hours of community work, and be subject to a nightly curfew for two months.
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shroomzi8
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Re: Ex-soldier grew cannabis to ease pain [UK] [Re: Green_T]
#13467165 - 11/11/10 04:15 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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this has cost me and the other british tax payers many thousands of pounds. im sure my money could be spent on something a bit more worthwile than busting an ex squaddie for pain relief pot. and you know what, he's right; dole money is shit and dole is stigmatized. but of free enterprise, saving the government money by not having to give him dole and not needing painkillers on the NHS has all been for nowt since the court case outweighed the savings. bunch of aresoles. legalize it, tax it and leave the little man alone. rant over. mahalos.
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Green_T


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Re: Ex-soldier grew cannabis to ease pain [UK] [Re: shroomzi8]
#13467184 - 11/11/10 04:24 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Today is Armistice day as well. I have great respect for this soldier for doing whatever he can to stay off the dole and solving his own problems.
There is no logic or justice in sending this man to prison.
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shroomzi8
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Re: Ex-soldier grew cannabis to ease pain [UK] [Re: Green_T]
#13467192 - 11/11/10 04:27 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Green_T said: Today is Armistice day as well. I have great respect for this soldier for doing whatever he can to stay off the dole and solving his own problems.
There is no logic or justice in sending this man to prison.

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