{"id":132418,"date":"2016-01-22T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=132418"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:26:19","slug":"2750-fines-for-cannabis-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/01\/22\/2750-fines-for-cannabis-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"$2750 Fines For Cannabis Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 21, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two men who set up and tended a cannabis crop on the banks of Mannuem Creek were fined $2750 each when they appeared in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Scott Damien Landers and Bobby John Ruhle were conjointly charged with producing dangerous drugs, possessing property suspected of having been used in connection with a drug offence and possessing drug utensils.<\/p>\n

They pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n

Police Prosecutor Sergeant Wayne Bushell said police from the Stock and Rural Crime Investigation Squad in Kingaroy located the cannabis crop, a Honda firefighter pump, a 1000 litre water tank and 20 litre plastic drums on the banks of the creek in November last year.<\/p>\n

They set up surveillance cameras which caught Landers and Ruhle tending to the 23 plants, which were between 30cm and 130cm high.<\/p>\n

Sgt Bushell said the men had fully co-operated with police and Landers had admitted growing the cannabis from seed.<\/p>\n

Solicitor Mark Werner, for the pair, said both the men had medical conditions which they were self-medicating with cannabis. They had been growing the crop for their own use.<\/p>\n

Landers had oesophageal cancer, which was now in remission, and had also suffered a workplace injury where he had broken both arms, leg, jaw and injured his back.<\/p>\n

Ruhle had been prescribed medicine for stress and depression which had made him “like a zombie”, as well as causing sleeplessness, headaches and nausea.<\/p>\n

Mr Werner said society was in the early stages of legislating to allow people to use cannabis to alleviate just these sort of issues.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Barry Barrett said that the offences remained on the statute books and it was not relevant to take into account what may occur.<\/p>\n

“That’s up to the politicians,” he said.<\/p>\n

No convictions were recorded and all items seized were forfeited.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man facing 65 charges had his strict\u00a0 bail conditions altered on Friday in Kingaroy Magistrates Court so he could spend more time with his dying mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phillip Carr faces a string of\u00a0 break-and-enter, enter premises and attempt to enter premises charges.<\/p>\n

He has been on bail since last July and his solicitor Mark Werner said it could be another six or seven months before the charges were finalised.<\/p>\n

Bail conditions included a curfew which would have prevented him from leaving his home to visit his mother in a medical emergency.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Barrett varied the bail conditions to include this as a reason, and also reduced his reporting conditions from twice a week to once a week.<\/p>\n

The charges are expected to be heard in the District Court after a Registry Committal.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brendon John Jackson appeared unrepresented in Kingaroy Magistrates Court via videolink from Maryborough Correctional Centre.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackson faces 11 charges, including drug possession and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

Police Prosecutor Sgt Bushell said he understood Jackson’s legal representatives intended to make a bail application in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

He said a lab report on the drugs allegedly seized by police had come back, showing a purity of 73 per cent.<\/p>\n

Sgr Bushell said the charges would definitely have to be heard in the District Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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