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.

 

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