Terbunsky court fines 56-year-old 30,000 rubles for 6.9 g of cannabis
Terbunsky District Court fined a 56-year-old man in Lipetsk Oblast 30,000 rubles after police seized 6.9 grams of dried cannabis he had kept in a coffee container on a kitchen shelf. He had picked a wild cannabis bush near his home in autumn 2023, admitted guilt and was convicted of unlawful acquisition and storage.
🇷🇺 Terbunsky municipal okrug, Lipetsk Oblast · Russia
Terbunsky District Court of Lipetsk Oblast sentenced a 56-year-old local
resident accused of unlawfully acquiring and storing narcotics, and found him
guilty.[1]In Terbunsky okrug the same 56-year-old man was fined 30,000 rubles
for storing marijuana.[2]
In the autumn of 2023 he picked a bush of wild-growing cannabis not far from his
home.[1]He crushed the plant, dried it and put it in a container that had
held coffee, which he kept on a kitchen shelf.[1]Police seized the substance
and sent it for examination.[1]A specialist concluded that it was cannabis,
also called marijuana, weighing 6.9 grams, a significant amount under the law.[1]The joint press service of the Lipetsk Oblast court system said he had
picked the wild bush near his house, dried it and left the cannabis in a
container in the kitchen.[2]
He admitted guilt and expressed remorse.[1]Taking mitigating circumstances
and what was known about him into account, the court imposed a fine of 30,000
rubles.[1]The court press service said Terbunsky District Court set that fine
after weighing mitigating circumstances and information about him.[2]
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