’CANNABIS FOR BACK PAIN’ MAN JAILED

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'CANNABIS FOR BACK PAIN' MAN JAILED


A 35-year-old man who grew cannabis to ease chronic back pain has been jailed for four months.


Sophisticated hydroponic growing equipment and seeds, cannabis plants and dried plant material with a potential value of UKP 16,000 were found by police when they raided Jason Chinnery's home.


Ipswich Crown Court heard Chinnery, of Tonning Street, Lowestoft, admitted producing cannabis plants and supplying a small amount of cannabis to a friend.


Andrew Shaw, prosecuting, said that officers who executed a search warrant at Chinnery's home in November found paraphernalia for growing cannabis and


112 plants at various stages of maturity.


Also recovered were dried cannabis flowers worth UKP 266 and a bag of cannabis leaf valued at UKP 4400.


Mr Shaw said that if the 112 plants had grown to maturity the dried flowers could have been worth between UKP 9500 and UKP 16400 and the leaf material between UKP 1100 and UKP 3400.


Chinnery admitted constructing the hydroponic system six months earlier and said the plants seized by police were his second or third crop.


He explained that he used between half an ounce and one ounce of cannabis a day to relieve chronic back pain.


And he admitted giving half a butt of cannabis to a friend in Norwich three weeks earlier.


Paul Raudnitz, mitigating, said Chinnery had been suffering from chronic back pain for 16 years since he did some heavy lifting work at the age of 19.


There had been a severe deterioration in his condition in the last five years and he had become immune to painkillers he was taking as well as suffering side effects from their prolonged use.


Recorder Nicola Padfield said at the hearing on Wednesday that courts took the production of cannabis very seriously and she was unable to find any exceptional circumstances in his case that would allow her to suspend his sentence.


She also refused an application for Chinnery to be released on bail pending an appeal.

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An ounce-a-day smoker? No wonder he grew 112 plants at a time.


So, which country did this happen in? How much jail-time did Chinnery get?


It's too bad that he "shared" some with a friend; it may have been better for him to keep it all for personal use.

[searcher]

It really does help with chronic back pain

too bad for him

when will this stop

[purplehaze]

That's just a overkill in my opinion, the guy was obviosly being honest
with the law and not lieing yet he still get's screwed. Any cop want's
to know the truth and get's pissed when someone lie's, yet this guy
obviosly admited it was his crop and he had sold weed to his buddy and
even admited to previous crop's. The guy told the whole story yet
the court system's can't give him any lee-way?



Sound's to me like a buncha Nazi's, were is Lowestoft? I would try to get to a doctor and get a prescription if I were him.



See stuff like this is ridiculous in my eye's because, one we all live
on the same planet, we are all human no matter what race, I dont
understand why if I step foot on this dirt I can do this.
But if i step over on this dirt I can't. It's retarded some of
the law's, I think we should look at the law's in amsterdam and compare
them to the rest of the world and consider changing a few
thing's. If you can't deem a substance worse than a legal
substance why is it illegal?

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[orogage]

I currently suffer from scoliosis ( which didn't develop until I was an adult), which is causes excruciating muscle spasams ( I have had kidney stones, and have three children- this pain is worse than chilbirth or kidney stones) . To give me the ability to function, I take extended release Tramadol as well as Lyrica every day- which are starting to have some nasty side effects ( lethargy, insomnia, inability to concentrate, and, higher and higher doses are needed to get the same effect- the Tramadol doesn't do much anymore, and there's no higher dosage- I was also taking Morphiene and Zopiderm"zopiclone( which I hated)). I had used cannibis recreationaly when I was a kid, but stopped as an adult. Is medicinal cannibis for pain relief like this legal in Canada ( I have tried to find out, but the law seems obscure), and if so, is it difficult to obtain?