Blooming pot leads to trouble

London - Rob Christopher, whose shop window in Somerset earlier won the "Glastonbury in Bloom" flower show, was served yesterday…

London - Rob Christopher, whose shop window in Somerset earlier won the "Glastonbury in Bloom" flower show, was served yesterday with a one-year suspended prison sentence by courts who were less impressed with his plants. Police recognised the plant's award-winning flowers as cannabis buds.

Christopher was found guilty only of having "cultivated" the marijuana plant in his Harmonie de la Nature shop, however, since he said he did not actually plant it.

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