Drug dealer caught with £1500 worth of cannabis in city street escapes jail

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Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.A number of empty bags were also found along with two mobile phones and £311.30 in notes and change.When the bags containing the herbal substance were initially tested there was a positive result for cannabis.The estimated street value of the drugs was £1500, Mr McDougall said.Stewart’s lawyer Lara Thomson told Sheriff William Gilchrist that her client had no previous convictions for drug offences.Referring to a social work report prepared for the court she said Stewart had been “supplying a peer group to fund his own habit”.The offence was almost two years’ old.