Drug addict turned marijuana grower avoids jail because his pot was so bad users couldn't get high off it
- A drug user who tried his hand at growing marijuana was spared jail time
- Police found 39 small cannabis plants, 10 mature plants and five seedlings
- He said he had been intending to create 'medicinal marijuana' for personal use
- Man pleaded guilty to cultivating and possessing cannabis with intent
A drug user who tried his hand at growing marijuana was spared jail time because the plants he was growing were so bad nobody could get high off them.
The 37-year-old horticulturalist from Balingup in Western Australia grew more than 50 cannabis plants on a fruit orchard.
But he avoided jail time during a sentencing hearing at Bunbury District Court last Monday after the judge noted his produce was 'unusable'.
When police raided the Balingup fruit orchard the man was working on September 19, they found 39 small cannabis plants, 10 mature plants and five seedlings.
A drug user who tried his hand at growing marijuana was spared jail time because the plants he was growing were so bad nobody could get high off them
A hydroponic room was set up in one of the sheds on the farm.
The man admitted he had been 'experimenting' with growing the drug, but said the only reason he had so many plants was because they had all failed, The Kalgoorlie Miner reported.
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He said he had been intending to create 'medicinal marijuana' for personal use, and spoke freely of his addiction to the substance.
The man first began using when he was in his late teens, but his habit had escalated and he was spending upwards of $400 a week.
The man first began using when he was in his late teens, but his habit had escalated and he was spending upwards of $400 a week
'Had he have been able to actually grow the cannabis plants to a point where he could get flowering to occur and buds to develop then he would not have had 54 plants – he wouldn't have had 10 mature plants,' his lawyer Twistie Venning said.
'It is slightly ironic that he is a trained horticulturalist, but actually failed to obtain usable material from the cultivation of the cannabis.'
The man pleaded guilty to cultivating and possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
He was handed a 12 month suspended sentence.
