Australian man convicted for growing marijuana for elderly arthritis patients
- A Darwin court has heard that a man who has pleaded guilty to growing marijuana intended to supply it to elderly people suffering arthritis.
- Craine Lucas Wattam, 37, pleaded guilty in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to unlawfully cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis.
- Police discovered the 45 plants when they visited his Darwin River property on an unrelated matter in January this year.
- The court heard that Wattam had been approached to grow the plants by a group of elderly people in Palmerston who used the drug to relieve symptoms of arthritis.
- Their own backyard plants had been persistently raided by thieves.
- The court heard Wattam had simply scattered seeds in pots and did not intend to grow that number of plants.
- Nor did he intend on profiting from them.
- He has been sentenced to nine months' jail suspended immediately.
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