26,000 drug seeds for internet brew
A CHILLAGOE man busted with 26,000 cannabis seeds and 285 plants had intended to brew up a batch of marijuana wine using a recipe he found on the internet, a court has heard.
Raymond Keith Crosthwaite, 64, who pleaded guilty in Cairns Supreme Court on Wednesday to producing and possessing a dangerous drug, had wanted to turn the drug into wine to relieve his back pain because he thought it would be better than smoking it.
The court heard the plants, ranging in size up to 1.2m and weighing 1.5kg in total, were found in a greenhouse and shaded areas of Crosthwaite’s Zillmanton Rd acreage near Chillagoe during a police search on December 5 last year.
The seeds, weighing 271g, and which he had been collecting for years, were found in a disused fridge.
Defence barrister Josh Trevino said the marijuana wine, made of cannabis, yeast, sugar, honey, lemons and oranges, called for about 250g of cannabis per batch.
Crosthwaite was sentenced to 16 months’ jail wholly suspended for four years.
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