An 81 year old New Zealand man has pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis, selling or supplying cannabis plants that he says he was going to sell in order to buy a wheelchair and pay for his back surgery.

He said he intended saving the proceeds to buy a $3500 wheelchair and pay for a back operation which he estimated would cost about $100,000.

Police say they found 364 cannabis plants, along with dried cannabis and cash in different rooms on the Ōhauiti property of John Banks Price. Ōhauiti is a small community in northern New Zealand… read more here at the source