Stacey Harcourt pleads guilty to cannabis cultivation

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Stacey Harcourt faced an unlawful cannabis cultivation charge at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. She pleaded guilty to unlawful cultivation of cannabis. The proceedings were reported on 2 February 2023.

The offence concerned cannabis grown at her north Dublin home on 14 October 2021. Judge Martina Baxter adjourned sentence for a Probation Service assessment and ordered urine analysis for drugs.

She also ordered medical reports to be sent to the Probation Service, with sentence adjourned to April 21 next. Harcourt said she used cannabis for cancer-related pain, after chemotherapy had not worked, and would try to reduce her use.