Benešov police charged a young man from the Benešov district with unlawful drug production after he grew marijuana on his parents’ farm.[1] Police said he used the dried cannabis for smoking and for making ointments and teas.[1] He admitted the offence of unlawful cultivation of plants containing a narcotic or psychotropic substance.[2] He was investigated at liberty rather than taken into custody.[2] If convicted he faces up to six months in prison.[1]

Acting on a Benešov judge’s order, officers carried out a house search on the farm on the previous Wednesday.[1] The search seized 133 cannabis plants measuring 0.3 to 3 metres together with dried crushed cannabis.[1] A second account confirms officers seized 133 cannabis plants, some up to three metres tall, plus stocks of dried crushed material from the parents’ land and house.[2] Police secured the plants for chemical analysis at a specialist facility in Kladno to determine their THC content.[1] The 133 plants far exceeded the statutory larger-than-small amount threshold of more than five plants.[2]

Police said he had grown marijuana since the previous year in at least 15 unidentified spots around Klimětice in the Příbram district from seeds obtained in Sedlčany.[1] About twenty of those plants were harvested, dried, crushed and kept in his room in a house in the Benešov district for personal smoking and for making ointments and teas.[1] Seeds from that earlier crop were then used to grow the 133 plants later seized on his parents’ farm.[1]