One year in jail for five plants

Dante7

This is a shocking sentence. One year in jail for five plants and 80g, all for personal use. No part of the sentence even suspended. Minding his own business and harming nobody. Compare this people who are getting suspended sentences for robberies and violent crimes.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/he-told-the-doctor-it-does-him-good-man-caught-growing-cannabis-to-treat-his-diabetes-jailed-981168.html

rob316

Such a backwards law, it'll cost the taxpayer about 100k to lock him up, ridiculous.

igCorcaigh

That is so wrong.
Poor guy.

ygolometsipe

It's very messed up. Look what happened this guy, blinded by an acid attack and they get a caution :eek:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/culprits-of-acid-attack-on-waterford-teens-will-only-get-juvenile-cautions-dpp-informs-victims-38914210.html

Man 45 grows some weed, goes to jail for a year. FFS.

ygolometsipe

"
Ray Boland, defence barrister, said the accused kept himself to himself and never came to the attention of gardaí for selling cannabis, it was always for his own use. He said the 45-year-old lived alone.

Mr Boland repeated that the use of the cannabis was as a medicine.
The judge said: “The day for posters was last Saturday.” In his judgement he said the accused was very entrenched in his beliefs about the use of drugs.
“He continues on his own way – that is great but it is not legal. I am more or less being asked to give it a say so, which I am not going to do. A custodial sentence is necessary.”



Yeah a real dangerous master mind taken off the streets /s
FFS

igCorcaigh

Custodial sentence.

Does that mean the judge was legally compelled to sentence him?

User94

This is the problem with criminal justice system in Ireland, alcohol is far more detrimental on society that weed. The problem is that people have always associated weed with class -A drugs which as everyone who smokes weed knows is complete bull****. People have seen the heroin and cocaine epidemic in Ireland grow through the last 30 years and seen the devastation its caused so anything associated with drugs most people tend to stay away. Unfortunately the cocaine trade is booming, every night I'm down the street you cant move for the stuff, and the harsh reality is it's just going to get worse.

Your Face

Easy target.

cameramonkey

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Custodial sentence.

Does that mean the judge was legally compelled to sentence him?

Custodial means to be jailed or kept in custody. Mandatory means the judge is compelled to give a sentence of a stated time or longer.

Cork_Langer1

cameramonkey wrote: »

Custodial means to be jailed or kept in custody. Mandatory means the judge is compelled to give a sentence of a stated time or longer.

It's the devil's lettuce, it leads you to grow poppy plants and coca leaves and gives you phycological issues.

It has to stay illegal for the jobs, guards, solicitors,judges publicans, pharmacies, addiction centers.

Hope it's appealed straight away.but the previous for growing and the old 1998 conviction for sale and supply had a bearing on the sentence.

We truly are a backward country, this person removed the criminality from his pasttime and knew exactly what he was smoking.

jam_mac_jam

Do the Gardai not have something better ro do. What a waste of everyone's time

DesperateDan

For me the criminal justice system and health care are the two biggest problems in this country that should be top of all parties agendas.

You can get away with a vicious assault here after 200 convictions and walk away scott free, back to your benefit laden lifestyle safe in the knowledge the next time you get caught the taxman will once again foot any of your bills. Meanwhile we spend a fortune on cases like this and piss the progressive taxes on weed we could be reaping down the toilet. Imagine what that money could do for our nurses.

Serious shakeup needed.

Still waters

The guards are worse to be wasting their time on things like this, he's a soft target and it looks good for the clown that caught him

Fr_Dougal

Growing it for his own use to treat a medical condition. He wasn’t funding criminals with his lifestyle.

Ridiculous.

Murt10

Excuse my naivety, but what in the name of God was that case tried in the Circuit Criminal Court for? I thought that was the court where they tried people for serious crimes or where they pleaded not guilty and wanted a trial by jury.

This is obviously quite a trivial and minor offence. Nobody was hurt. Large amounts of money weren't stolen. Surely this should have been tried in the District Court. He admitted the charge, so the only issue before the court should have been to take mitigating factors into account and decide on the length of the sentence.

Urethral Buttercup

Poor fellah. Judge sounds like a pompous cnut.

igCorcaigh

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said: “He is not an addict, he is dedicated. He told the doctor it does him good.”

"Entrenched in his beliefs"

Etc.

They're really looking to lord over people. Such entitlement.

AllForIt

He probably didn't from a 'disadvantaged' background so no excuse - or mercy.

Mysterypunter

Strong with the weak, and weak with the strong, same old story.

GNWoodd

How did this man even come to their attention ? What was he doing that was detrimental to society which should be the test for any prosecution ?
We have too many coppers with f..k all substantial to be doing !

Ghetofarmulous

Poor guy. Terrible laws. For such a liberal and progressive country we really roll back sometimes.

Skylinehead

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said: “He is not an addict, he is dedicated. He told the doctor it does him good.”

"Entrenched in his beliefs"

Etc.

They're really looking to lord over people. Such entitlement.

I'd say the judge is fairly entrenched in his own beliefs if he's sending someone down for a year for that.

Sleeper12

rob316 wrote:

Such a backwards law, it'll cost the taxpayer about 100k to lock him up, ridiculous.

Ah it won't really. They will spend the exact same on running the prison weather he's in it or not. Once you realise that the prison & staff have to be paid for with or without him you will then realise that it actually costs only around 25 euro per week to feed him in prison. There are no extra costs for the prison service just because one particular person is in prison

Allinall

He knew he was breaking the law.

Don’t see a problem.

Ghetofarmulous

Allinall wrote: »

He knew he was breaking the law.

Don’t see a problem.

The problem is with the severity of the law. That’s what’s being discussed. Not the fact he broke the law.

Allinall

Ghetofarmulous wrote: »

The problem is with the severity of the law. That’s what’s being discussed. Not the fact he broke the law.

It if he got 6 months, or a €2,000 fine there would be the same outrage.

tayto lover

Ghetofarmulous wrote: »

The problem is with the severity of the law. That’s what’s being discussed. Not the fact he broke the law.

His problem is that he had previous for supplying.
A year is very severe though. Should have got community service.

Sleeper12

tayto lover wrote:

His problem is that he had previous for supplying. A year is very severe though. Should have got community service.

If it was just for personal use no one would have ratted him out. Gardai would never have known. They didn't get a search warrant on a whim.

A year is a lot but he gets 25 percent off. This leaves 9 months at the very most.

GooglePlus

It's mad that you can go to the likes of Spain and legally smoke this but here is this poor fecker with a year if his life down the drain, along with future prospects.

All because of a plant.

CageWager

Big pharma can’t be having people growing their own medicine.

satguy

Judge should be sacked.