Chronic Illness
Chronic Illness
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"A wheelchair-bound brain damaged Christchurch man has been sent back to prison for cultivating cannabis which he claimed was for pain relief.
The five-month sentence handed down to Neville Yates caused an uproar in court and security guards had to remove cannabis decriminalisation supporters from the building after they started yelling "there is no justice in sending a cripple to prison".
A Christchurch District Court jury last month found Yates guilty of cultivating nine plants in his home. Defending himself, he had told them cannabis was the only effective way he had found to alleviate the constant and chronic pain he had suffered since a serious accident 30 years ago."