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Rotorua man gets jail time for supplying synthetic cannabis

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 08/26/2015 - 16:50

A former licensed retailer of synthetic cannabis has been sentenced to three years four months imprisonment after a series of police raids netted drugs with a street value of more than $1 million and $181,000 in cash.

David Ronald Young, 52, appeared in the Rotorua District Court on Wednesday where he was sentenced on charges of possession and supply of synthetic cannabis and the class C drugs, TFMPP and BZP.

Judge Philip Cooper said the case involved "very large quantities [of drugs] with very large returns".

Young, the owner of Rotorua retailer Skingraft, was formerly licensed to sell synthetic cannabis until the law change on May 8, 2014, which made the sale of the product illegal.

Police executed a number of search warrants on storage premises in September and October 2014 uncovering 57kg of herbal material, 16.12 kg of pre-packaged synthetic cannabis, 6000 bags/tins of synthetic cannabis, 251g of TFMPP...

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