The article entitled ‘Daniel Holmes parents’ call for amnesty ignored’, which appeared on December 12, makes the following statement:

“In 2011, Daniel was jailed for more than a decade and handed a €23,000 fine for growing five cannabis plants.”
The following quote from paragraph 11 of the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal of October 31, 2013 may be worth taking note of:

“In all there were 32 plants still in their pots. Apart from that, a box was found containing dried cannabis leaves weighing 689 grams, as well as three newspaper packages containing respectively 20.61 grams, 21.65 grams and 89.30 grams. This court fails to understand why somebody who allegedly lived to smoke cannabis needed to pack cannabis grass in separate packages, two with an average weight just over 20 gm and a larger packet on which was written “100 g”, if all the cannabis grass in the flat was meant for his personal consumption.”