Marijuana pays student's tuition

Marijuana pays student's tuition

BANDUNG, West Java: A student who was cultivating marijuana
plants said he did it to pay his tuition, Antara reported on
Thursday.

Sud, 26, a student at a private university here, said he grew
four marijuana plants behind his home in the Cimahi district
here, and used part of the money from the sale of the marijuana
for his daily needs and his tuition.

The student was arrested in a raid on his house on Tuesday
night, Bandung Police chief Lt. Col. Hendra Sukmana said.

He said residents had reported there were marijuana plants in
Sud's garden, two of them reaching two meters high.

Hendra quoted Sud as saying that he obtained the seeds for the
plants from a fellow student.