Pubdate: Wed, 21 Sep 2005
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Copyright: 2005 Guardian Newspapers Limited
Contact:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175
Author: Martin Wainright
Referenced: Patricia Tabram  http://www.ccguide.org.uk/pattabram.php

POLICE RAID HOME OF CANNABIS COOK, 66

Patricia Tabram, 66, who supplied friends with casseroles, soups and cakes
incorporating cannabis, was raided yesterday by police who confiscated four
plants. Mrs Tabram, of Hexham, who was given a six-month suspended sentence
last year, had insisted that the drug dealt with back pain and depression
better than conventional treatments. Yesterday she said: "I've never
successfully grown a cannabis plant - the leaves of these were starting to
go brown and die. But I don't want to have to go to a local criminal for my
supply. I'm just an old, grey, tubby grandma but I'm going to fight this."
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