A man who admitted growing cannabis has been spared jail by a judge and will now go on to study horticulture.

Joseph Collins, 24, pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to growing cannabis plants while at Falmouth University.

Judge Christopher Harvey Clark said he was aware public schoolboy Collins came "from a good Christian family" and had been to a "very good school".

He gave Collins a six-month suspended sentence and said he should "start a new life" at horticultural college.

BBC: Cannabis grower Joseph Collins spared jail to study horticulture

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  • not sure why its illegal - it would solve all the worlds problems in many ways -

    pharmaceuticals are poison.

  • He was given no separate penalty for guilty pleas to charges of possession of MDMA, cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms and methylphenidate.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-30056833

    i guess the Judge went to the same school or knew his father!

    £29,000 school - amazing what being in a 'good christian family' can do for you in bad times .... :D

  • He was given no separate penalty for guilty pleas to charges of possession of MDMA, cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms and methylphenidate.

    Yeah some how i don't think it was on the judges good faith he got away with it

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