Drug-dealing grandma 'raided again'
Source:
Daily Mail, UK
Pub date:
Monday September 19, 2005
Subj:
Drug-dealing grandma 'raided again'
Web:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/thehealthnews.html?in_article_id=362843&in_page_id=1797
Ref: Pat
Tabram
http://www.ccguide.org/pattabram.php
Patricia Tabram - the cannabis-dealing grandmother
- has again had her home raided by police, supporters said.
The
66-year-old hit the headlines earlier this year when she admitted possessing
cannabis with intent to supply from her home in East Lea, in Humshaugh, near
Hexham, Northumberland.
Mrs
Tabram, who prides herself on her home-made herbal cookies, casseroles and
soups, cuts an unlikely figure as a drug dealer with her grey hair and
spectacles.
She has
cooked up treats laced with the drug for neighbours and friends in her village
after being introduced to it last year.
The
pensioner says she is "medicating" her friends who are sick or in a
lot of pain because conventional NHS medicines do not work and leave
side-effects.
Vic
Hamilton, a friend of Mrs Tabram from the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA),
said: "Pat has been busted again and she's not very happy about it.
"It's
got to the stage where she's not taking any cannabis and neither are her
friends and some of them are very old and close to death.
"Pat's
now not taking any medication at all to show the Government that the cannabis
does help her."
Mr
Hamilton, 60, from Weymouth, who polled 282 votes when he stood in Dorset South
for the LCA at this year's general election, added: "I get very upset by
all of this and the way Pat is being persecuted."
Mrs
Tabram was introduced to the Class C drug by friends and she found that it
helped alleviate the symptoms of depression, whiplash and neck pain.