Cork man who self-medicated with cannabis to ease pain of jaw injury grew €60,000 worth of the drug

A Cork man’s cannabis growing exploits proved so successful and he got carried away with it to such an extent that by the time gardaí raided his apartment, he had grown €60,000 worth of the drug.

Defence senior counsel Jane Hyland said Ciaran MacCarthaigh, 29, of Leeside Apartments, Francis Street, Cork, had a diagnosis of autism and bi-polar disorder and had difficulties with psychosis. 

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