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No jail time for cannabis chocolate
01.27.07|United Press International

Three British citizens linked to the production of cannabis-laced chocolate for multiple sclerosis sufferers have received suspended jail sentences.

Lezley and Mark Gibson, who supplied the unusual candy through Marion Davies' Web site, were all given suspended sentences by Judge John Phillips recently, The Times of London said.

The trio previously had been found guilty, but Phillips awarded them a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years, after agreeing to the defense's claim that there were mitigating circumstances.

The group had admitted to producing more than 36,000 bars of "Canna-Biz" cannabis-laced chocolate bars to help alleviate pain for more than 1,800 victims of multiple sclerosis.

The trio had done little to mask their enterprise as well, offering advertisements in both regional and national media, and remain adamant they did nothing wrong, the newspaper said.

"I was devastated when we were found guilty and this decision has broken me again. I still do not think I have done anything wrong," Lezley Gibson said after the first court ruling. "How can it be wrong to try and help ill people?"