Inland There are the latest days, several fundraising efforts started to pay the fine of a man that Thursday, the judge had to appear for the illegal growing, manufacture and sales of cannabis and cannabis oil. With that oil, he helped terminal children, inter alia, the Limburg epilepsiepatiëntje Sofie Voncken (10). They had, for them, cannabis oil began to use up to 50 seizures a day. Now she has, according to her father no more. Her parents and many of their supporters find it not possible that the man a fine of 8,000 euros.
Accused Louis E. (65) from Merksem worked himself, his back broken in the port of Antwerp. Because the classical painkillers him not helping, he tried cannabis oil. And who brought, according to him, do lighting. 4 years ago he began the oil also to provide, via a web shop, but an interest group around medicinal cannabis briefed the federal fasfc FASFC.
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In december 2017, followed by a check at the man’s home. Were cannabis products found with excessive levels of the psychoactive substance THC. Possession thereof and trade commerce therein are punishable. The threshold is 0.2 percent, but in a syringe was even a THC content of 59 percent was detected. A concentration which, according to experts psychotic reactions can cause. the
The court found it “not desirable that lay people experimenting with cannabis for medicinal use”, but kept in mind that the pijnproblematiek and the good intentions of the man. Louis E. was, therefore, not in prison, as the prosecutor had requested, but a penalty – the minimumboete – of 8,000 euros. There couldn’t be a punishment with postponement or suspension be given, because he was previously convicted. E. was in spite of the favor is not satisfied and announced that he appeals. (read on below)
