POLICE
Police found 250 cannabis plants in different stages of growth – from mature to seedlings – inside three sheds at a property in North Canterbury.
A man arrested after police found 250 cannabis plants in three sheds in rural Canterbury claims authorities were aware he was growing the drugs for commercial use.
Michael Heron appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Friday charged with cultivating and supplying cannabis after police raided his Rangiora home on September 15.
Heron, whose name was suppressed at an earlier appearance, did not apply to continue the interim order and is yet to enter pleas.
His lawyer, Andrew McCormick, told Stuff Heron wanted it known he had applied to the Ministry of Health in August for a licence to cultivate cannabis on a commercial scale for medicinal purposes.
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