UK: Pro-Cannabis Fraternity Pays Court Costs of ukp724

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David Knox

The Hexham Courant

Friday 15 Apr 2005

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GENEROUS cannabis users have pulled together to pay off Patricia Tabram=92s=
=20
court costs.

The 66-year-old pensioner was ordered to pay ukp724 towards court costs=20
during sentencing at Newcastle Crown Court last Friday.

Judge David Hodson allowed the widower from Humshaugh to pay the sum off at=
=20
ukp15 per week.

But over the weekend campaigners raised money on a pro-cannabis website.

And she will receive a cheque this week to cover the full costs.

Mrs Tabram said: =93I was really worried about having to pay back that=
money.=20
It is a lot when you live on a pension.

=93I very rarely cry but when friends showed me the website I burst into=20
tears. None of these people even know me, yet they=92ve given all this money=
=20
=96 I cried for an hour-and-a-half.=94

The cannabis cooking grandmother left her Tynedale home this week to enter=
=20
the election trail.

Mrs Tabram is standing against Leader of the House of Commons Peter Hain in=
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South Wales.

She added: =93I am hoping to spend a week in and around Neath to do a series=
=20
of talks.

=93I want the people of Wales to be aware of the dangers of synthetic=
medicines.=94

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