A CANNABIS campaigner set himself up as "a pharmacy" for people he decided needed the drug, a court was told yesterday.
Jeff Ditchfield, who wanted to open a Dutch-style coffee shop in Rhyl, told police he would give the drug freely as a medicine to relieve suffering.
Since the start of his campaign to legalise cannabis 18 months ago, Ditchfield said people had started giving him the drug because they knew he was trying to help sick people.
The 48-year-old, of Water Street, Rhyl, has pleaded not guilty at Chester Crown Court to two charges of possession of cannabis and The drugs were found in Ditchfield's car as police searched a shop he was opening, Beggar's Belief, in Water Street, Rhyl.
