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UK: 68-year-old 'cannabis cook' gets community service
John Land 24dash
Wednesday 07 Mar 2007 A 68-year-old grandmother, from Northumberland, who advocates cooking with cannabis has been ordered to carry out 250 hours' unpaid work after she was found guilty of growing and possessing the drug. Patricia Tabram walked free from Carlisle Crown Court despite being convicted for a second drugs offence which could yet see her evicted from her housing association bungalow in Humshaugh, Hexham. Judge Barbara Forrester told the pensioner she must pay £1,000 costs as well as carry out 175 hours' unpaid work for cultivating four cannabis plants and a further 75 hours for possessing powdered cannabis which she stored in her kitchen and added to cakes, curries, casseroles and soups. She added: "It is accepted that the cannabis was for your personal use and you used it to self-medicate. "In those circumstances I am satisfied it is not necessary to impose a custodial sentence, either immediate or suspended." But she reminded the defendant: "Possession, cultivation or supplying cannabis, or being concerned with any of those actions, except where authorised, is a criminal offence which may lead to imprisonment." Outside court, the grandmother of two insisted she would defy the judge and continue to take cannabis. She said: "This court is not fit for purpose and I am taking up an appeal and putting in a complaint about the fact I was not allowed to have a defence. "The law and justice do not exist in this country any more." Tabram, flanked by well-wishers, said she would continue the fight and was prepared to go to jail. The mother of three is a tenant of Milecastle Housing, which said it has had several meetings with her about breaching her tenancy agreement. http://www.24dash.com/socialhousing/17589.htm
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