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UK: Drug Used To Cook Curry ("Grandma" Pat Tabram)
Sky News
Monday 05 Mar 2007 A grandmother who "passionately" believes in using cannabis to relieve pain has gone on trial. Pensioner Patricia Tabram is charged with growing and possessing the drug. The 68-year-old co-operated with police when they raided her home in the village of Humshuagh, near Hexham, in September 2005. She directed officers to a bedroom where cannabis plants were growing in a wardrobe and told them there was powder stored in jars in her kitchen for cooking, the court heard. Police seized four plants from her Northumberland home, growing equipment and the powdered drug which the prosecution claims was for her personal use. Tom Moran, prosecuting, told Carlisle Crown Court: "Mrs Tabram is somebody who passionately believes in the use of cannabis as a way of relieving pain. Advertisement "She says she suffers symptoms from various unfortunate health problems that are, she says, not alleviated by conventional medicine. "She believes she should be able to take cannabis to do what conventional medicine cannot do." Mr Moran said the jury of six men and six women were not there to debate legalisation of cannabis but to apply the law as it stood. Sgt Alan Clement was part of the police raid. Under cross-examination by Tabram, who is defending herself, he admitted she had asked him to seize the contents of her freezer. The grey-haired pensioner said: "The reason I asked you to please take it was, I believe, if you had gone back to the police station with 22 boxes of curries, casseroles, biscuits, cake and ice cream, this would have proved to the Crown Prosecution Service that I only use cannabis to cook." The case continues http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1254355,00.html
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