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Man cops jail term for cultivating marijuana

January 19, 2018 8:02 pm

A forty-year-old man of Buca, Natewa in Cakaudrove has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for cultivating marijuana.

Vosamana Salevuwai pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful cultivation of illicit drug.

The Labasa High Court heard the police officers raided his farm in December last year and confiscated seventeen marijuana plans, eight of which were matured and being dried for sale.

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The father of three has a non-parole sentence of two years.