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UK: Gran guilty of growing pot
Vince Soodin The Sun
Wednesday 07 Mar 2007 A GRAN who advocates cooking with cannabis was found guilty of growing and possessing the drug by a jury who deliberated for just 15 minutes today. Patricia Tabram, 68, was ordered to carry out 250 hours’ unpaid work after she was found guilty of growing and possessing the drug at Carlisle Crown Court. She walked free despite being convicted for a second drugs offence which could yet see her evicted from her housing association bungalow in Humshaugh, Northumberland. Judge Barbara Forrester told the grey-haired pensioner she must pay £1,000 costs as well as carry out 175 hours’ unpaid work for cultivating four cannabis. The grandmother was in breach of a six-month suspended jail sentence when police, acting on a tip-off, found four plants growing in a wardrobe at her bungalow in Humshaugh, Northumberland, in September 2005. They also found powdered cannabis in a jar next to her cooker. The jury heard Tabram’s claims that she used cannabis to ease her depression, as well as aches and pains she still suffers from two car crashes. The jury of six men and six women came back with unanimous guilty verdicts for the two counts, one of possessing the drug and one of cultivating it. Tabram, who is defending herself, told the court: “I am old and I am tired, and I am disappointed, not in the result by the jury. “I am disappointed in the attitude of the court regarding someone my age with my health problems and the way I deal with it. “I just want to go home and get some rest.”
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