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Emily Woods

Farmer jailed after police find huge cannabis crop

A Victorian farmer who was growing cannabis to treat his wife's epilepsy has been jailed. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A farmer who started growing medicinal marijuana at his property to treat his wife's epileptic seizures has been jailed for almost three years for trafficking and cultivating the substance.

Christo Quinn, 52, and his wife Raelene, 60, were both charged with drug trafficking and cultivation offences after police raided their farm in Moliagul, west of Bendigo, in May 2021.

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