AUSTRALIAN man has been sentenced to five months in prison for possessing 1.7 grams of marijuana on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.
Presiding Judge Nyoman Sutama of Denpasar District Court sentenced Robert Paul McJannett on Friday under the country's strict narcotics law.
The 48-year-old crane operator from Perth was arrested at the Bali airport in December with the marijuana hidden in his luggage.
Prosecutors had initially asked that McJannett be charged with drug smuggling but the charge was reduced to possession after his doctor and psychiatrist said he had a marijuana dependence and used it for himself.
McJannett is expected to be freed on May 28.
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