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UK: Cannabis Gran's Bid To Be MP
David Knox The Hexham News
Friday 04 Mar 2005 TYNEDALE=92S cannabis-cooking granny Patricia Tabram is bidding to become an= MP. The 66-year-old from Humshaugh will be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court=20 next week on a charge of possessing cannabis with intent to supply. Police seized 242 grammes of the drug =96 worth over ukp800 =96 during a= raid=20 last year at her home, and also confiscated 31 cannabis plants. But the former chef is pinning her hopes on staying out of prison =96 and=20 entering the campaign trail at the General Election. Mrs Tabram will challenge Labour MP and leader of the House of Commons=20 Peter Hain, for his Neath seat in South Wales. She said: =93I was at the Legalise Cannabis Alliance conference last week in= =20 Norwich and they have asked me to be their candidate. =93The Legalise Cannabis Alliance say I=92m their face of middle England.=94 Since pleading guilty to possessing cannabis in January, Mrs Tabram has=20 become the face of an elderly generation who take the drug for medicinal=20 purposes. And her small semi-detached bungalow in Humshaugh has become a=20 campaigning headquarters. Over the past few weeks, with help from friends, the widow has been writing= =20 to every MP in the country. Accompanying each of the 659 letters is a nine-page report into the=20 side-effects of prescribed drugs. She said: =93I am hoping at least one MP will listen. I gave this report to= =20 Tony Blair three weeks ago with a letter I took to Downing Street but I=92s= =20 had no reply. =93Whatever happens at court next week I won=92t be giving cannabis up. The= =20 police will just have to keep coming round and taking my food away.=94
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