A great-grandmother who feared she'd lose her home after being convicted of growing cannabis at the property and selling it, is to keep her house.
Dawn Danby, 72, finished one-year home detention stint at her Paeroa hillside house earlier this month. A restraining order had been put on the property under the Proceeds of Crime Act following a police raid there in February 2007.
During that bust, police found 12 cannabis plants growing in pots behind her home, 11 cannabis clones being grown under lights inside her house and five further cannabis seedlings in her garden.
Almost two ounces were divided between several containers inside the well-kept property along with $9000 cash.
In April last year, Danby was sentenced at Tauranga District Court to a year's home detention and 300 hours community work for growing, selling and possessing cannabis between October 2006 and February 2007.
Last week, Danby told Sunday News she didn't know if she would still lose her home but didn't want to comment further.
Inquiries by Sunday News have revealed the time in which the Crown has to start court action to seize the property has lapsed. They have six months to do so after an offender is convicted.
Before being sentenced, Danby told this paper — in an exclusive interview — she had only used cannabis for pain relief, was not a drug dealer and only grew cannabis to meet her own demands.
"You take cannabis and it works within 15 seconds if inhaled," said Danby, who said she was riddled with pain after a failed pelvic floor operation.
Danby said she didn't get stoned on the drug.
"When you're in pain, the THC and all the other compounds act on that pain so you don't get that heavy stoned effect."
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Source: Stuff.co.nz
Author: STEVE HOPKINS
Contact: Stuff.co.nz
Copyright: 2010 Fairfax New Zealand Limited
Website: Pot-growing gran will not lose her house
Dawn Danby, 72, finished one-year home detention stint at her Paeroa hillside house earlier this month. A restraining order had been put on the property under the Proceeds of Crime Act following a police raid there in February 2007.
During that bust, police found 12 cannabis plants growing in pots behind her home, 11 cannabis clones being grown under lights inside her house and five further cannabis seedlings in her garden.
Almost two ounces were divided between several containers inside the well-kept property along with $9000 cash.
In April last year, Danby was sentenced at Tauranga District Court to a year's home detention and 300 hours community work for growing, selling and possessing cannabis between October 2006 and February 2007.
Last week, Danby told Sunday News she didn't know if she would still lose her home but didn't want to comment further.
Inquiries by Sunday News have revealed the time in which the Crown has to start court action to seize the property has lapsed. They have six months to do so after an offender is convicted.
Before being sentenced, Danby told this paper — in an exclusive interview — she had only used cannabis for pain relief, was not a drug dealer and only grew cannabis to meet her own demands.
"You take cannabis and it works within 15 seconds if inhaled," said Danby, who said she was riddled with pain after a failed pelvic floor operation.
Danby said she didn't get stoned on the drug.
"When you're in pain, the THC and all the other compounds act on that pain so you don't get that heavy stoned effect."
NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Stuff.co.nz
Author: STEVE HOPKINS
Contact: Stuff.co.nz
Copyright: 2010 Fairfax New Zealand Limited
Website: Pot-growing gran will not lose her house
