Former FNQ flower farmer sentenced for “healthy” and “neat” cannabis crop
Julian Paul Hamer, a former flower farmer and habitual cannabis user who had a preference for baked cannabis goods, was found with 327 cannabis saplings in March this year.
Hamer made full admissions to growing the plants at his Watsonville property, west of Atherton, and pleaded guilty to charges of producing and possessing illegal drugs.
Photographs of the young crop taken by police during a raid of the farm were yesterday presented to the court during his sentencing.
Defence barrister Derek Kordick told Judge Sarah Bradley the exhibits demonstrated Hamer’s proficiency as a horticulturist.
“One of his (previous) labouring jobs included growing flowers commercially – chrysanthemums – and they were operating around the three-quarters of a million cutting operations a year,” Mr Kordick said.
“He became very good at farming and hence, Your Honour may see, the neatness of the crop in the photos.
“Probably it assisted,...
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