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PRESS RELEASE: Persecution of medical-cannabis (Marijuana) users
Legalise Cannabis Alliance Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Monday 05 Mar 2007 Persecution of medical-cannabis (Marijuana) users and providers is obscene! Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO Box 198 Norwich NR3 3WB http://www.lca-uk.org In 1998 after an exhaustive inquiry, the [UK] House of Lords Select committee on Science and Technology recommended that the Government, as a matter of urgency made cannabis available for doctors to prescribe. On the 15th January 2007 at Carlisle Court of Justice the Judge gave THC4MS three a 9 month custodial sentence (suspended for 2 years) for supplying "CannaBiz chocolate" free to 1800 MS sufferers, stating that their motive was altruistic. On Monday 5 March 2007 Carlisle Court of Justice will become a battle ground again when a 68-year-old grandmother with several disabilities is to appear in to face the charge of cultivating 4 cannabis plants for her own medicinal use. This trial was originally scheduled for Newcastle Crown Court but was rescheduled for Carlisle Crown Court after Mrs Tabram registered a complaint with the Lord Chamberlains office that a statement made by the judge in a previous trial, which was crucial for her defence, had been deleted from the court records. Pat Tabram, claims she made a statement in open court, that she would not supply anyone with cannabis, but she said she not stop medicating with it because it is far better than any tablets you can get from the doctor. According to Mrs Tabram, The Judge acknowledge she would not stop medicating.. but made it clear that Pat should not continue to supply cannabis and if she did she could be brought back to court and sent to jail for six months. Mrs Tabram will plead "not guilty" on the grounds that it is her right to self medicate with cannabis to combat pain, depression, recurring face rash and internal injuries caused by previously used prescription medications. Mrs Tabram who has some legal knowledge will be conducting her own defence. [If] found guilty all options are open to the Judge for disposing of the current case of cultivation up to a maximum of 14 years in jail. The Judge will also have to decide whether to send her to Jail for 6 month for breach of the suspended sentence imposed in 2005! Don Barnard, of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance who was sentenced to 50 hours community sentence for growing 5 cannabis plants in 1995 to help his wife cope with arthritis said: "It's 'very wrong' that chronically sick patients have to choose between living in severe pain or risk themselves or one of their relatives being sent to prison for buying cannabis or growing it for medicinal use." "The law as it stands has become a proxy for the control of public order. It produces more harm than it prevents. It is a drag on both the police criminal justice system resources… it does not protected people from bad quality cannabis, It criminalises large numbers of otherwise law abiding, mainly young, people to the detriment of their future....."The Misuse of Drugs Act must be amended to stop this evil application of the law." Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org 07984 255015 publicrelation@lca-uk.org Editors notes: On Monday morning March 5th, at Carlisle Crown Court, 68 year old grandmother of two Patricia Tabram will be facing her second trial for cannabis offences in two years. On 15 September 2005 officers from the Northumbria Police entered Mrs Tabram's house and found four live cannabis plants. Pat Tabram is a member of the LCA http://www.lca-uk.org/default.php she stood for parliament in the UK general election in 2005 . The grandma who eats cannabis, or Cannabis Gran as she has become known in the many media articles and programmes which have featured her, was introduced to cannabis by a neighbour three years ago when she was in a fit of depression brought about by pain from arthritis and a whiplash injury. A selection of past media reports about Pat. http://www.ccguide.org.uk/pattabram.php Pat Tabram Blogspot: http://cannabisgrandma.blogspot.com/ See also a recent documentary on medical cannabis in the UK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJFbC2k_UQ The UK Green Party: have also declared their support for 'Granny' Tabram UK Green Party drugs spokesperson Shane Collins, said, "The government have prohibited a free and effective medicine in favour of expensive pharmaceutical drugs with negative side effects. The real crime is for the government to criminalise and jail sick people for healing themselves and others." "Patricia Tabram case should galvanise action to change the damaging and expensive prohibition." Press release http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2893 # # # -- LCA on Myspace; http://www.myspace.com/cannabis_people_uk
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