PUTRAJAYA: Founder of the Malaysian Marijuana Education Movement, Mohd Zaireen Zainal, has escaped the death sentence.
The 38-year-old will now have to serve 15 years in jail and receive 10 strokes of the rotan.Chief Judge of Malaya Justice Zaharah Ibrahim ordered Zaireen to serve out his jail term from the date of his arrest on Aug 27, 2014.
Prior to this, Zaireen's lawyer had written in to the Attorney-General’s Chambers to review his drug trafficking charge, on grounds that there were no trafficking elements in his case. A chemist later confirmed that the seized items comprised 1.1kg of cannabis and 58.5ml of Tetrahydrocannabinol, a substance found in marijuana.
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