details wide-ranging penalties depending on the charge in question. “Penalties associated with cannabis range from a A$500 fine for possession to a 14-year jail term for its supply or manufacture,” the information notes., characterized as moderate risk, while cannabis oil and hashish are Class B substances, which are deemed to be high risk.
As a result of the two searches at the woman’s home, officers found about 37 grams of dried weed, 335 grams of cannabis “cabbage” used to make edibles, 41 cannabis chocolates, 15 cannabis oil gummy lollies, leaf-shaped cannabis chocolates and baking moulds reportedly used to make the infused confections.Article content
The woman told the court she had been selling cannabis goods to make money to pay down her hefty medical bills and had just recently completed doing so,During sentencing earlier this week, the judge pointed out that the woman needed to take responsibility for her actions and should not have argued she had no other way to pay down her medical debts. She was sentenced to nine months of home detention.
It is a bit of a coin toss when it comes to how judges will react to arguments that cannabis was sold or grown to address health conditions or debts.who grew a secret stash of close to 700 cannabis plants to “self-medicate” his pain was handed a 24-month suspended sentence for the sophisticated setup.for an illegal grow-op in the U.K. to help pay off his debt was ordered to spend the next year in prison.