Judge in Wrexham case says cannabis growing has 'reached epidemic proportions'

CANNABIS growing has reached epidemic proportions, a crown court judge has said.

Judge Geraint Walters was speaking in the case of a man who came under pressure over a £2,000 drugs debt and agreed to grow cannabis plants at his home so that he could pay it off.

But police discovered them after a female made an abandoned call from the property in Wrexham.

Officers went to check, could smell cannabis from outside and saw condensation on the windows. Inside they found a grow tent in a bedroom with plants.

Cannabis was in the process of being harvested, explained prosecutor Emmalyne Downing.

Dominic Marsh,of Pont Wen, Caia Park, admitted cannabis production last October but avoided immediate custody.

Marsh, 37, said to have a long-standing addiction to cannabis and cocaine, received an eight month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

He was sent on a two-year drug rehabilitation course and ordered...

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