May 2017
2 reports. Seizures 1 · Sentences 1
Vanuatu gives community work to a man who grew cannabis to deter rats
Roro Iauko received sixty hours of community service after admitting that he had planted twenty-six cannabis plants as a pest barrier in his garden.[@1] The judge accepted that the crop was intended for horticultural use, but ruled that this purpose did not provide a defence to unlawful cultivation.[@1] Applying the 2013 guidance, he placed the case at the lower end of the personal-growing…
Tonga seizes 3,894 cannabis plants at Matahau
Police seized 3,894 cannabis plants from six bush allotments at Matahau and Fou'i on 4 May 2017 and arrested eight men. Four were sentenced on 7 June 2018. It appears to have been larger than the Vava'u bust that media later called Tonga's biggest.