{"id":45051,"date":"2019-04-12T18:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/pot-grower-spared-from-prison-because-his-weed-was-too-shitty\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:18:50","slug":"pot-grower-spared-from-prison-because-his-weed-was-too-shitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/pot-grower-spared-from-prison-because-his-weed-was-too-shitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot Grower Spared From Prison Because His Weed Was Too Shitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian weed grower will catch zero prison time because his plants couldn&#8217;t get anyone high.<\/p>\n<p>A horticulturist by trade, the man recently decided to \u201ctry his hand at growing marijuana,\u201d wrote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6895389\/Drug-addict-turned-marijuana-grower-avoids-jail-pot-bad-users-high.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/u><\/a>. But he hadn\u2019t yet cultivated a green thumb for ganja, and his crops turned out to be bunk weed.<\/p>\n<p>Police eventually raided his place in September, and they found 39 small cannabis plants and 10 mature plants. This week, he faced a sentencing hearing, where the judge waived time behind bars because his plants were &#8220;unusable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: The World&#8217;s Shittiest Blunts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/embed\/gallery\/worlds-worst-blunts\/skinny-bad-blunt\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHad he have been able to actually grow the cannabis plants to a point where he could get flowering to occur and buds to develop then he would not have had 54 plants \u2013 he wouldn&#8217;t have had 10 mature plants,\u201d the grower\u2019s attorney, Twistie Venning (yes, that\u2019s his <a href=\"https:\/\/kroonlegal.com.au\/portfolio\/twistie-venning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>real name<\/u><\/a>), told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6895389\/Drug-addict-turned-marijuana-grower-avoids-jail-pot-bad-users-high.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is slightly ironic that he is a trained horticulturalist,\u201d Venning continued, \u201cbut actually failed to obtain usable material from the cultivation of the cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man claimed he farmed the plants for medicinal purposes. That, and overall expenses, as his weed habit had apparently grown to $400 per week.<\/p>\n<p>The man pled guilty to cultivation and possession with the intent to distribute. A judge sentenced him to a year of probation.<\/p>\n<p>Australia legalized a <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/australia-legalizes-medical-marijuana-nationwide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>highly restricted medical marijuana program<\/u><\/a> in 2016. Only government-licensed growers are legally permitted to grow medical weed. The country\u2019s progressive legislators have pushed for <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/australia-s-greens-party-proposes-full-recreational-cannabis-legalization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>recreational legalization<\/u><\/a>, but it\u2019s deadlocked \u2014&nbsp;for now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Randy Robinson on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randieseljay?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian man will not receive prison time because the weed he grew was so weak it couldn&#8217;t give anyone a buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pot Grower Spared From Prison Because His Weed Was Too Shitty - 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