Biochemist ‘inspired’ by smoking cannabis

A WELSH biochemist accused of supplying cannabis said she enjoyed smoking a pipe of her home-grown drug and that it inspired her to work hard on her land in West Cork.

Sionad Jones pleaded guilty to two charges, namely cultivating the cannabis and possessing it for her own use, but denied the charge of having the drug for the purpose of selling it or supplying to others on September 10 last year, when 18 plants were seized by gardaí.

It only took a jury 10 minutes to return a unanimous not guilty verdict on that charge at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.