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UK: OAP believed in cannabis for medication, jury told
News and Star, Carlisle
Tuesday 06 Mar 2007 A 68-YEAR-old woman who believes in the use of cannabis for the relief of pain from various medical ailments has gone on trial in Carlisle. Police found four cannabis plants growing in a walk-in bedroom wardrobe at the home of Pat Tabram who lives at Humshaugh, near Hexham. A jury at Carlisle Crown Court heard yesterday that officers also discovered an electric timer, a fan and water system there – and a jar containing the drug in her kitchen. But the pensioner, who is conducting her own defence, denies cultivating cannabis plants on September 16, 2005, and possessing the drug on the same date. Prosecutor Tom Moran told the court that Tabram was a passionate believer in the right of people to use cannabis for the relief of pain when conventional medicine had not proved effective. However, the law did not allow that. Therefore Tabram did not have a legitimate defence to the case against her. When she was interviewed by police she had told them of her ‘sad, perhaps tragic background’ which caused her to start using cannabis for medication. Other medicines had not worked or caused bad side effects. Sergeant Alan Clemence described the police search of Tabram’s home and confirmed that she had been co-operative in showing them the cannabis plants in the bedroom and the harvested material in the kitchen. During her cross-examination of him, Tabram said: “I medicate with it (cannabis). I don’t smoke it.” She asked him if he remembered that she had pointed out to him that there were 22 boxes of food that were already cooked in her freezer, including casseroles, biscuits and cakes. She said she asked the police to take it away in the hope of convincing the Crown Prosecution Service that she only used the cannabis to cook with. The trial continues. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=473358
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