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“It Eases My Stress”- Says Man Found With Cannabis

BVI Platinum News

22 December 2008

http://www.bviplatinum.com/news.php?sectio...urce=1229962978

 

Royden Sebastian, 25 of West End was this morning fined $500.00 for the illegal possession of 0.5 grams of cannabis that was found in his clothes closet.

 

Prior to knowing his fate, the young man who is a construction worker told the Court that he did not mean to break the law, but bravely noted that the substance helps him to ease his stress.

 

“I really didn’t mean to break the law or anything. When I come home from a hard and stressful day, it helps to ease my stress…I take the weed to ease my stress and that set there I had lost it,” Sebastian said.

 

Senior Magistrate Mrs. Valerie Stephens before sentencing the young man who had pleaded guilty to the charge, told him that he must find other means to ease his stress.

 

He was fined $500.00 forthwith, or 30 days in prison.

 

The facts stated that on December 19, 2008 at 5:30a.m, ADVIL Detectives executed a search warrant on the premises of the accused at West End, when the drugs were found in a clothes closet.