Grant Matthew/Stuff
Joshua Alan Diamond had cannabis worth $28,000 on his property when police busted his grow. (File photo)
A man who grew cannabis to fund his methamphetamine addiction wants to have an “ordinary, boring life”, a court has heard.
Joshua Alan Diamond, 33, was sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court on Tuesday to 20 months’ jail for cultivating cannabis and possessing it for supply.
Police busted his operation in May, when they searched his property.
In a shed they found 12 plants, measuring between 10 and 50 centimetres high, as well as evidence more plants had been grown there.
READ MORE:
* Roderick Aldridge, 80, walks streets of Hamilton to support legalising cannabis
* ‘Criminally diverse’ man flees family tangi after being asked to smuggle drugs into prison
* Father and son sentenced for shipping container of cannabis
But a find in another area really put Diamond in hot water.
A drying room contained 475 fully mature and heavily budded plants, as…