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UK: Cannabis grandmother used drug to relieve pain
Daily Mail
Tuesday 06 Mar 2007 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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