Pensioner forks out $2900 for cannabis
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.A MAN who admitted to smoking 12 joints a day pleaded guilty to drug possession after police caught him with $2900 worth of cannabis.
On Thursday 60-year-old Lester James Bell appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court, where he also pleaded guilty to possessing utensils.
About 8am on September 2 police searched Bell's home and found a clip seal bag containing 64g of cannabis.
But the real find was hidden in a large grey bag, where Bell showed police he kept 375g of cannabis which cost him $2900.
Defence solicitor Cassie Boland said that in 1990 Bell was in a motorcycle accident where he suffered extensive burns and had two fingers and a thumb amputated.
Since then he had not been able to work and was on a disability pension.
"Where does a gentleman on a disability pension get thousands of dollars to purchase cannabis?" Magistrate Cameron Press asked. "Is he using...
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