Court's decision sensible
Source: South Shields Gazette
Date: July 13 2007
Author: Catherine Hunnam
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I SAW your story on Monday on the
proposed eviction of Patricia Tabram, the so-called cannabis gran.
A judge at Newcastle Crown Court saw fit not to evict her from her home in
Northumberland over her use of cannabis.
The judge, Peter Bullock, did say she could neither supply nor cultivate the
drug, however.
She and her landlord, Milecastle Housing, agreed this was a common-sense
decision.
I too agree that it was a good decision. It actually flouted the law in the
name of common sense and the good of everyone involved.
Milecastle Housing appears to have been reluctant to take this to court. Nobody
needed this waste of time and money.
The ruling is sensible, but leaves the problem of an absence of a decent supply
of cannabis for Pat.
She will be evicted if she grows her own, so she is forced to go to dealers,
whose cannabis might be adulterated in all kinds of ways to make them more
money.
That could even mean she ends up funding organised crime. Surely it is time to
re-address our unworkable laws on the misuse of drugs. What Pat does is far
from misuse of anything.
Catherine Hunnam,
South Shields.
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