Andrew Stephen Harrison said he had been introduced to the drug at the age of 13, was sent down for 18 months
A young man who said his life had been ruined by cannabis as a boy has been jailed - for supplying the drug to children.
Andrew Stephen Harrison, 21, had a network of 40 customers, some of them as young as 14.
Today at Mold Crown Court, he was told by a judge that supplying drugs to children meant he’d be going to prison for 18 months.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said: “People who sell drugs to children go to prison and I am afraid that is where you are going.
“In particular there was a 14 year old boy, and a 15 year old girl.
“You are a young man who obviously has no scruples and was willing to supply cannabis to the very young,” Judge Rowlands told him.
“Such behaviour is rightly viewed as being serious by the court and by society.
Prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz said that in the early hours of October 15 the defendant had been arrested at a Caergwrle address where he was found with others.
Police seized a quantity of cannabis, some scales and a cannabis grinder.
They also took possession of £635 cash and a mobile phone.
Interviewed after the phone had been examined, Harrison, of Ffordd Carreg y Lech in Treuddyn near Mold , said that he had been addicted to cannabis from an early age.
“He said that he had been given cannabis at the age of 13. He felt that it had ruined his life by taking the drug at such a young age,” said Mr Scholz.
Police asked him why if he felt like that, he was supplying cannabis to teenagers himself, he could not give any satisfactory explanation.
He had in 2013 received a ten month suspended sentence for supplying drugs.
Defending barrister Andrew Green said that his client had pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court.
He had never been to custody before and it would be felt particularly keenly by the defendant and his family, who were devastated at the situation he found himself in.
There was clearly another side to him and he was a caring and in some ways timid young man.
He had shown genuine remorse for what he had done and for the shame he had brought upon his family.
It appeared the defendant despite the earlier suspended sentence had not fully realised the seriousness of what he was doing.
The judge ruled that the £635 seized should be applied by North Wales Police in the fight against drug crime.
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