Kronfectionary marijuana business on Facebook an ‘in-joke’

A South Australian man who sold a menu of edible cannabis confectionery did it out of stupidity and as a “joke”, a judge has declared while sentencing him.

A South Australian man who made and sold cannabis-infused fairy floss, Nutella and lip balm says he was using the proceeds to pay his mortgage.

Jamie Stephen Woodward ran a business named Kronfectionary and sold the illegal products through a Facebook page.

District Court Judge Wayne Chivell said this week the operation was sophisticated but an act of stupidity rather than seriously corrupt behaviour.

He handed Woodward a wholly suspended 18-month jail term and a $1000 good behaviour bond, after the 32-year-old pleaded guilty to manufacturing, possessing and trafficking charges.

Judge Chivell said police raided Woodward’s house last year and seized about 11 kilograms of illegal goods.

“The products offered for sale and seized included lip balm, cookies, lollies, Nutella and other spreads and chocolate products infused with cannabis oil,” he said.

Police also found a fairy floss machine with traces of cannabis on it, and bulk quantities of spreads, glycerine, food colouring and chocolate syrup.

Nearly $13,000 worth of cannabis food items were logged in sales records, but other partly completed invoices indicated the business was turning over “substantially more”.

Woodward, who lost his job because of a back injury, told police he was using some of the proceeds to pay his mortgage, but Judge Chivell said he treated his dealings with cannabis as a joke.

“More precisely, something of an in-joke with other cannabis users,” he said.

He said Woodward developed a menu, used advertising and marketing, had his customers pay by electronic funds transfer and provided tracking numbers when parcels were dispatched.