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Cannabis-Cooking Granny Defiant Despite Being Busted

By Rod Minchin, PA

Pottering about her kitchen with her grey hair and spectacles, grandmother Patricia Tabram cuts an unlikely figure as a drug dealer.

But the sprightly 66-year-old, who prides herself on her home-made herbal cookies, casseroles and soups, has admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply from her home in East Lea, in Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland.

She has cooked up treats laced with the drug for neighbours and friends in her village after being introduced to it last year.

A defiant Mrs Tabram told the Press Association today from the sitting room of her remote bungalow: “Friends introduced me to cannabis in February 2004 when they gave me a cigarette.

“I suffer from depression, whiplash in my neck and back pain. I went to bed and the next morning I felt so much better.

“I didn’t know what I had taken so I asked my friends. They said it was cannabis.

“But I don’t like smoking so they said I could cook with it.”

Soon, the grandmother-of-two began cooking regularly for friends with food laced with the illegal herb.

However, Northumbria Police were tipped off about the savoury smells and activities coming from Mrs Tabram’s bungalow and twice raided her house in May and June.

They seized 31 cannabis plants growing in her loft and another one from her hallway table, which officers had missed until Mrs Tabram pointed it out.

“When the police came to my door I invited them in,” she said.

“They said I had been growing cannabis plants in my shed. They went to look for them but didn’t find anything.

“I told them to look in the loft and I offered them some tea and biscuits.”

The teetotal grandmother added: “From the way the police were talking you would think I was the biggest criminal in Hexham.”

As she sits in her armchair, she rings her friends to tell of her newly-found celebrity status.

“It’s grandma here,” she says, as she talks to one neighbour.

There’s a knock at the door. Another friend had come to see her.

Not wishing to give his name, the man in his 20s, said: “To say she is convicted drug dealer is just crazy, if you ask me.

“It is terrible the way she has been treated by the police and the courts.

“She is 66 years old and is classed as a drug dealer. The police keep picking on her yet they do nothing about cocaine dealers round here.”

Mrs Tabram, a former chef, has continued to cook, making her chicken and leek pies, curries, beef casseroles, chocolate cakes and biscuits – but has left out the illegal herb from the recipes.

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'Cannabis gran' remains defiant
By Lincoln Archer
BBC News

Mrs Tabram faces sentencing next month in Newcastle Crown Court
The woman known as Britain's "cannabis gran" explains why she eats marijuana five times a day - and why she'll keep on doing it despite the threat of a jail term.

Patricia Tabram takes a sip of hot chocolate after a long day

She has just delivered a letter to Downing Street telling Tony Blair why she no longer trusts medicines prescribed on the NHS, having spent half the day travelling from near Hexham, Northumberland, to do so.

This is not, however, your average hot chocolate. Mrs Tabram, 66, has added a quarter of a teaspoon of cannabis powder.


I'm not afraid of going to prison. I'll come out and start buying it again!
-Patricia Tabram

"This will keep me covered from pain for five hours now," she says as she takes another sip.

The old age pensioner began taking cannabis in February last year to combat intense pain in her neck and back, as well as other complaints such as tinnitus.

She says the drug had an almost immediate impact.

"I had a walking stick, I was in constant pain. Now, through ingesting cannabis in my food five times a day, five times a week - minute amounts - I feel great."

She is writing a book about her experiences called Grandma Eats Cannabis, which she hopes to be in print soon.

Sentencing

Mrs Tabram is currently on bail awaiting sentencing after last month admitting possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

Police had earlier found more than 30 cannabis plants in her home, as well as another £850 worth of the drug with self-seal bags used to distribute it to others.

She was part of a cookery club, now with more than 100 members, that would add cannabis to their recipes for "medicinal purposes".

Among the group's favourite dishes are a chicken and leek pie and a lemon cheesecake, as well as the perhaps more predictable chocolate cake.

She says she faces up to four years in prison when she next faces court on 11 March. Yet she remains defiant.

"They can put me in prison as long as they like," she says. "I'm not afraid of going to prison. I'll come out and start buying it again.

"And then they can put me in prison again and I'll come out and start buying it again."

'Side effects'

In the letter Mrs Tabram delivered to Downing Street, she listed the side effects associated with many popular pharmaceutical drugs available on prescription from NHS doctors.

All had at least 10, most had around 30 and one had more than 70 side effects, including dizziness, rashes, bruising and depression, the letter claimed.

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