Pubdate: Fri, 02 Jun 2006
Source: Lancashire Evening Post (UK)
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"I GREW CANNABIS TO EASE MY PAIN"

A BLACKBURN man trying to alleviate back pain, following an 
industrial accident, resorted to growing cannabis, a court was told.

A court heard how Anthony Aspinall, 51, found buying the drug costly.

He then obtained some cannabis plants, which were seized when police 
searched his home in Gloucester Road.

A judge at Preston Crown Court gave him a two-year conditional 
discharge after he admitted an offence of cultivating cannabis.

Miss Amy Nicholson, prosecuting, said police found ten large mature 
cannabis plants being grown at the address, with the use of a 
hydroponic system.

Miss Judith McCullough, defending, said the drug cultivation had been 
an "amateur production".

A serious industrial accident 11 years ago had caused a chipped 
vertebrae in his spine.

Aspinall received hospital treatment, but the condition grew steadily 
worse, she said.
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