4kg of Cannabis 'For Personal Use'

[Smokin Moose]

A Sunshine Coast man caught with almost four kilograms of cannabis in his home grew it for personal use, a court has been told.

Police found the drugs in several rooms - including a custom-made growing room - at Scott David Woodforth's home at Buderim, on the Sunshine Coast, during a raid in September 2007. The Supreme Court in Brisbane was today told the drugs were for Woodforth's own personal use, but that he was also going to share them with his partner and another couple.

The court was told the four adults smoked up to $1,600 in cannabis each week. Defence barrister Simon Lewis told the court Woodforth, 44, had started using cannabis when he was 19 but had increased his use to help with pain relief after a car crash five years ago.

He said his client decided to grow the drug to save money.

When police arrived at his home they found a custom-built growing room under the house containing two mature plants. They also found 12 seedlings in a cupboard upstairs, and loose cannabis in bags and on a drying rack in other rooms. Police also found various equipment used for the production of the drug.

The total amount of cannabis found in Woodforth's home was 3,991.2g.

He pleaded guilty today to one count each of producing a dangerous drug exceeding 500 grams, possessing items used in producing a dangerous drug and possessing utensils or pipes. Justice Roslyn Atkinson sentenced him to nine months' jail but ordered that he be released immediately on parole after hearing evidence he had not used drugs for two months.

Source: Brisbane Times
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[Smokin Moose]

In Australia, you NEVER tell a cop you are going to 'share' your pot with another person. If you offer to share a bong, a joint, or even a cookie, with another person, you can be charged with felonious supply!
In a court appearance many years ago, the prosecutor asked me if, at some time in the future, I would have shared some of my potential harvest with my wife. I said yes, and was convicted of possession with intent to supply. I later got off on appeal in the Supreme Court, but by that time I had lost my home, my wife, and my kids.

 

[julianne]

WOW. Heavy duty.

 

[Smokin Moose]

The reason my appeal was successful was that the judge in the Supreme Court found that you could not be convicted on a hypothetical answer to a hypothetical question. As my lawyer stated at the time, if my intent was to supply some of my harvest to the prosecutor at some time in the future, him having become my friend, he would then also be guilty of possession (hypothetically of course!). My lawyer asked me if it was my intent to supply some of my potential harvest to the prosecutor, at some time in the future.
I said "Yes! he looks like a drug user, so why would I not!"
"If he was my friend I would ask him to mull up!"

The judge dismissed the case, and he chastised the prosecutor for being a potential drug user, on the basis of my hypothetical answer that I would supply him!
Justice is a funny thing!