Cannabis farmer cannot be sentenced after suffering stroke

  A cannabis farmer who took part in Britain’s biggest-ever skunk growing operation could not be sentenced today (weds) because he has suffered a stroke. Alan Marquiss, 69, was involved with cultivating potent drugs worth £26 million in two-storey wooden sheds in seven sites across Kent and Norfolk. The cannabis had an estimated value of between £10.1 million and £24.1 million wholesale, or a street value £25.4 million and £51.9 million if the plants produced four crops a year. The…