'MEDICAL' MARIJUANA CROP SEIZED

(ANSA) - Rimini, October 30 - A paraplegic was arrested in Rimini Friday after police found his garage had been converted to grow marijuana.

Police ignored the man's claim that he needed the drug for medical reasons.

Some 15 plants, 1.7m high and ready to be harvested, were confiscated along with dried marijuana and hashish.

A second man was caught helping tend the plants and was also arrested.

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