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UK: Drugs Had Flower Power!
Posted by FoM on June 07, 1999 at 16:13:33 PT
Source: Changing Times
Civic leaders were so impressed by a shop's floral display that they awarded the owner first prize in the "Glastonbury in Bloom" competition, a court was told.
It was only after police arrested the proprietor of In Harmony in Nature that the town leaders realised that the much-admired green fronds were cannabis plants.The 31-year-old shop owner from Glastonbury, Somerset, was yesterday convicted of cultivating the plants and given a 12-month conditional discharge. He appeared in Taunton Crown Court charged under the name of Free Rob Cannabis, after changing his name from Rob Christopher after he was arrested.Cannabis, who was representing himself, denied sowing the plants and said that marijuana seeds had been planted in other floral displays in the town. He said: "I really don't think it's a priority to arrest me for watering my flower display.He said the trial gave jurors a unique opportunity to send out a "clear message that watering a flower display should not be considered a criminal act". The jury ignored his plea and found him guilty of cultivating the 13 plants between a date unknown and August 19 last year. Sentencing him to a conditional discharge, the Recorder, James Tabor, QC, said: "In this case I accept that someone else planted these drugs and you merely tended them. "I regard this as an example of you making a demonstration about your own personal views."News article found by Pat Whelan!Thank You, Pat!
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