The article is clearly anti-marijuana from the first sentence, but John Arnold got off lightly after having his house raided. Arnold claims that he smoked marijauana in order to kick his heroin addiction.

John Arnold, 42, walked free from court, despite being nabbed with 41 plants and sophisticated growing equipment after a raid on his home.

Just a few months before, another cannabis grower got six months behind bars when he was caught growing a farm which contained just seven more plants.

I think this is interesting as it shows judges are fairly lenient towards pot. If this had happened to say, a ketamine dealer (also a Class C drug in the U.K.) I doubt he would have gotten off so lightly.

I'm surprised that this hasn't already been covered on the front pages of SmokeDot but alas:

"BBC Radio 1 DJ Grooverider has been jailed for four years in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for cannabis possession

Grooverider goes on to say "I must have forgotten the spliff," he said in the interview. "It was a small amount. Back home I would not even get prosecuted."

A more detailed report from back in early December detailing what happened, including other contrbend such as "pornographic DVDs", can be found here.

For a related story, I highly suggest readers interested in this story to look into the case of Keith Brown who was arrested after a search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes.