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A patient suffering from angina has admitted growing his own cannabis to help with the pain.
Stephen Smith-Chappell was sentenced for producing the class B drug at Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
The 65-year-old, of Walpole Road, Cambridge, denied growing cannabis and told police he had not smoked it in three years.
But officers had already searched his home and found more than 25 grams (worth between £1,400 and £4,200) of the drug, and the paraphenalia associated with it.
Smith-Chappell then said cannabis was "beneficial for his agina" and that it treated the condition quicker than the various medications he was on.
Lucy Wise, mitigating, told magistrates that her client had "done his research" before starting to use the drug as a treatment.
She added: "He is of previous good character and has never been before the courts. It's been very stressful and upsetting for him."
Smith-Chappell was...
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