For one flower in the loft? Sick activist's trial won, draconian punishments for marijuana but remain

On Wednesday, the district court in Mělník acquitted the prosecution of František Slavík, who faced the threat of prison for growing a single cannabis plant containing THC. Nightingale, who suffers from a serious pancreatic disease, claims to have grown the plant for medicinal reasons because of the lack of cannabis available on prescription. The acquittal is, he says, a victory for common sense — but systemic change in often disproportionate se…

Who is it fair and just to punish? How sick do you have to be to "get away with it"?