Not calculating the hours he took to sleep, the figure equates to 8.3 cones every hour over a 24-hour period. 

Troy Anthony Maynard’s solicitor told the Maitland Local Court her 38-year-old client had been using cannabis since he was 11 years old.

Since police raided his Crawford Street home on May 30 last year, Maynard had reduced his drug use to three cones once or twice a week, his solicitor said yesterday. 

Documents tendered to the court said Maynard’s backyard was guarded by two large hunting dogs. 

When police yelled out he told them not to come into the yard because the dogs would bite them. 

Maynard walked inside the garage and pulled the roller door down behind him. 

Police yelled for him to come out but he went into a smaller room within the garage. 

After repeated calls for Maynard to come out police opened the door and found him pulling cannabis plants out of pots. 

Police found a prohibited knife and fearing Maynard would arm himself with it, police deployed capsicum spray. 

Maynard punched police twice as they tried to restrain him. 

Inside the garage police found a hydroponic set-up with nine cannabis plants on the ground that Maynard had ripped from their pots and another nine plants still in their pots. 

Cannabis seeds and leaf were also seized. 

Maynard pleaded guilty to five offences. 

His solicitor said the knife was part of a collection he had bought from adult stores and was never intended for use. 

The solicitor said her client had acted recklessly but did not have any intention to assault police. 

Maynard was sentenced to two, 12-month good behaviour bonds for resisting police and possessing a prohibited drug; 150 hours community service for assaulting police and possessing a prohibited weapon; and 100 hours for cultivating a prohibited plant.