Southampton man guilty of growing small amount of cannabis; innocent City boys think bigger
All that talk of legalising cannabis and in the meanwhile people are having their lives damaged by raising a cash crop in their residence. Michael Antony Muirhead was growing a whopping two marijuana plants in his Southampton high-rise flat when police pounced. Local press cites “drug experts” offering their opinion that the ‘farm’ could have earned the nefarious felon as much as £200.
The accused said the plants were for his personal use. He has post-traumatic stress disorder and acute anxiety.
This nonsense reached court, where Muirhead, who pleaded guilty to producing cannabis, was given a 12 month conditional discharge, ordered to pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £20. Indeed, who the bloody hell is the victim on this heinous crime?
If you’ve acute anxiety and other afflictions that can be alleviated by cannabis, take the official advice: keep popping those addictive pills.
In other news, away from a city gardener growing a tiny bit of weed and doing his bit to combat climate change:
Medical cannabis firm Oxon is talking with investors about raising as much as $15m (£12m) as it prepares to launch a range of products in the UK and eyes a listing in London or the US.
The problem was that the Southampton farmer wasn’t thinking big enough.
Posted: 25th, August 2019 | In: News Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
