Toowoomba woman left ‘spewing’ at cannabis use and court fines
The cannabis had left her sick and in hospital and the fines imposed by the court were not too healthy for her wallet either.
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JUST 1g of cannabis and utensils for smoking it has not only left a Toowoomba woman with a significant fine, but the drug made her so ill she had to be hospitalised.
Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard police had executed a search warrant at the Newtown home at which 21-year-olds Vanessa Mae Roser and Zac-Lee Smith-Broderick had been staying about 7.30am, November 18.
Found in a bedroom were two water pipes for smoking cannabis, a grinder for chopping up leaf and a clip seal bag containing just 1g of “green leafy material”, police prosecutor Narelle Lowe told the court.
Roser told police the green leafy material was cannabis from a stash from which she had smoked days earlier, Senior Constable Lowe said.
However, her solicitor Alysha Jacobsen told the court her client instructed that after smoking the cannabis she had been violently ill and had been left vomiting for the ensuing four days.
She had been hospitalised as a result and diagnosed with a cannabis induced ailment and so she hadn’t touched the drug since, Ms Jacobsen said.
The submission didn’t impress Magistrate Kay Ryan.
“Well, it’s illegal as well,” Ms Ryan replied.
“That might be a good reason not to smoke it.”
Ms Jacobsen said her client was subject to a three-month $300 good behaviour bond at the time which she would have to forfeit.
Ms Ryan said she would give Roser “one last opportunity” and ordered the conviction not be recorded.
However, she fined Roser $600 and ordered she forfeit the $300 from the bond.
“You’ve just racked yourself up a $900 SPER debt,” Ms Ryan told the 21-year-old.
Smith-Broderick also pleaded guilty to the same charges of possessing a dangerous drug and utensils arising from the same incident.
Ms Ryan placed him on seven months probation to include drug testing but ordered no conviction be recorded.
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