'You would have been better off flushing it down the toilet', judge tells Cork man caught with €15k of bad-quality cannabis

Garda told court the herbal material was brown rather than the normal green colour, saying: 'It did look like — for want of a better term — bad-quality cannabis'

Accused held on to cannabis and smoked some, even though it was bad, court heard. File picture

A Mallow man who held on to a €15,000 batch of bad-quality cannabis from a friend would have been better off flushing it down the toilet rather than putting himself at risk, a sentencing judge told the 45-year-old.

Detective Garda William Hosford testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that on February 10, 2023, gardaí went to the home of Patrick Buckley, at 16 Sandfield Terrace, Mallow, Co Cork, with a warrant to conduct a drugs search.