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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Portsmouth cannabis grower told police he was exercising his Magna Carta rights 🌿Portsmouth cannabis grower told police he was exercising his Magna Carta rights
A MAN caught twice growing cannabis at his home told police and a judge he was a freeman of the land not bound by common law.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard the Southsea home of Niall Dixon was raided by police who found 65 plants growing in 2013.
The court heard that during a second raid in January last year officers found two plants in a growing tent, one in his conservatory and some dried cannabis.
Prosecutor Nicholas Hall said Dixon had told police that through Magna Carta he was exercising ‘his right granted by god to consume any plants that he chose to do and therefore the inapplication to him of this legislation’.
The court heard Dixon, 43, used the cannabis in juice form for medical conditions he suffered, including anxiety.
Judge Peter Dixon Crabtree sentenced Dixon to eight months in prison for the first offence and one month concurrent...
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