Cannabis experiment lands man in jail

A MAN’S plan to experiment with the use of cannabis to produce items such as plastics, clothing and toothpaste was hindered by a 10-week stint in jail.

Dan Joch McLeod’s scientific ambitions were thwarted by police soon after he crossed the Queensland border into the Territory in February this year, towing a caravan full of cannabis seedlings and cuttings.

He had hoped to take the plants to a property north east of Tennant Creek to grow them there.

McLeod had come from Camooweal where he had already been picked up for possessing the same drugs and was subsequently fined $450 in the Camooweal Magistrates Court.

Thanks to Shiggy for the story. But pot toothpaste? You have to be kidding me.