‘It kept him away from the drug dealers’: Mum found guilty of drug cultivation explains why she did it

Earlier this week mother and grandmother Vonda Tillig pleaded guilty to drug cultivation at the Geelong Magistrates Court.

She received a good behaviour bond for growing ten cannabis plants in her vegetable patch.

The reason she grew them?

To help her son stay off heroin and ice.

Vonda Tillig explained the situation to 3AW’s Neil Mitchell.

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