CZ: Supreme Court rules growing cannabis legal
The Supreme Court has ruled that growing cannabis is not a crime, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
- www.praguemonitor.com
by Prague Daily Monitor/ČTK / published 21 February 2007
A crime is committed only when a person dries the plants and produces marijuana from it, the paper says. Czech police and courts should act according to the above verdict.
"Cannabis growing cannot be considered production of a drug," Supreme Court judge Eduard Teschler said of the verdict.
The verdict was issued last year, but media attention focused on it only now after the weekly Reflex pointed to it.
The Supreme Court decided the case of Mojmir Miklica and Hana Ticha from Hradec Kralove region, east Bohemia. Miklica and Ticha had been sentenced for growing 500 cannabis plants, but appealed the verdict, claiming that they used cannabis for medical reasons.
However, the couple was punished after the court proved that they also processed cannabis plants, state attorney Petra Rademacherova from Hradec Kralove told the paper.
