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UK: Cannabis grandmother used drug to relieve pain

Daily Mail

Tuesday 06 Mar 2007

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A 68-year old grandmother who uses cannabis to relieve pain was about to
kill herself by driving off a cliff like the characters from the film
Thelma and Louise before she first tried the drug, a court has heard.

Pensioner Patricia Tabram has suffered from depression since 1975 when
she found her 14-year old son dead in his bed and tried to commit
suicide 11 times, a jury was told.

The defendant of Humshaugh, Hexham, Northumberland, denies one count of
cultivating and one count of possessing the Class C drug in September 2005.

Carlisle Crown Court was read some of her police interview which she
made after four plants and powered cannabis were found at her home.

During the interview at Hexham Police Station she said she grew up in
South Shields, South Tyneside, which has cliffs over the North Sea. She
told officers she planned to drive late at night off a cliff and kill
herself.

"I decided if Thelma and Louise can do it, I could do it too," she told
police.

But that day a friend called round, worried because she had not seen
Tabram, and the friend gave her a cigarette which turned out to contain
cannabis.

The grey-haired grandmother said she soon fell asleep and when she awoke
she felt much better, and neck pain she had endured after two car
crashes was alleviated.

Tabram wept in court as the police interviews were read out by the
prosecution who insist the case is straight forward and does not concern
the debate over the legalisation of cannabis.

During her statement, she also told officers she was growing the plants
in her wardrobe so she would no longer have to buy the drug from criminals.

She told officers: "I reckon three plants would get me through six
months to a year and I wouldn't have to go and find a criminal to buy
cannabis in this way.

"I wouldn't be costing the NHS money for any medication.

"I was on 17 tablets a day when I was on medication so that was costing
the NHS a lot of money.

"I grew my own little plants, look after my health and I'm not a bother
to anyone, never ever sold cannabis to anyone.

"I don't put it in little bags and go to the marketplace and say: 'Buy
one, get one free.'"

The case continues.

 

 

 

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