Magistrates Court

I had to go to court

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'Cannabis Cafe' closed

No it wasn't!!


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Letter to CID Rhyl regarding the raid

On Monday, 10/09/2003, I confirmed the offer made by myself to DC Peter Davies on 8/09/03 in writing, I hand delivered the following letter to Detective Inspector Gary Ashton

10th September 2003
DI Ashton
North Wales Police
CID
Rhyl police station
Rhyl
Denbighshire

DI Ashton

On Monday 8th September 2003, I informed DC Peter Davies of Rhyl CID that I DO NOT wish North Wales Police to waste any more public money on raiding the Beggars Belief

Your operation against the Beggars Belief last Saturday was politically motivated. You issued a ‘dubious’ warrant and searched my premises from 11am until 3pm, at 3.02 pm you decide to use a ‘sniffer’ dog to search the premise, why did you not send the dog in first? There are only two possible conclusions, either you did it that way to delay my opening or you are just incompetent.

As burglary detection rates have fallen to 6% it may just be that you are just incompetent, either way DO NOT waste limited resources on the Beggars Belief or speeding motorists. Please try and investigate real crime, try and arrest some dealers of damaging class A drugs or some real criminals

My offer to DC Davies was a serious one, if you want to arrest me for cannabis then please just telephone me and I will at your request visit Rhyl police station with cannabis in my possession. However as your officers cannot tell the difference between cannabis and the legal herb Damiana they may not recognise medicinal cannabis. To arrest me you do not have to use 20 officers (as you did last Saturday) to just put on a good show for the Mayor and the media.


J Ditchfield

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Raided on the opening of The Beggars Belief

To further the campaign for medicinal cannabis use, on 6th September 2003, I opened a Cannabis Medical Advice Centre, which incorporated a shop selling cannabis seeds (which are legal), and horticultural equipment (also legal) okay it's a growshop!

At 11am, 20 NWP officers appeared and presented me with a search warrant

During the intrusion by NWP, officers removed MS sufferers from the building and expelled them in their wheelchairs into the rain

The police 20 officers searched my premises and the home of my girlfriend. 14 grams of cannabis was found in the glove box of my car and I was arrested.

I was searched, my property removed, photographed, fingerprinted and had samples of my DNA taken. After witnessing an assault on a prisoner by the Custody Sergeant I made an official complaint to a police Inspector.

A police officer advised me that if I had informed the police that the cannabis recovered was for my own personal use then it would have been Iikely that I would have been offered a caution, however I gave a full and frank interview at Rhyl Police station and I explained that I would have willingly and freely given the cannabis to a member of Bud Buddies who requested assistance, I was subsequently charged with possession and ‘intent to supply’

I was released on police bail at 11pm that evening

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