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04-08-2005, 04:16 PM
LONDON (Reuters) - A 66-year-old grandmother with a taste for :ganja casserole has been spared jail despite admitting she had shared :ganja-laced cookies with fellow pensioners.
Patricia Tabram from East Lea in Northumberland, who said she uses :ganja to alleviate pains in her neck and back, pleaded guilty to possession of :ganja with intent to supply.
But Judge David Hodson said he would not make a "martyr" of her when she returned to Newcastle Crown Court for sentencing on Friday. Instead, she received a six-month suspended prison sentence.
The white-haired, bespectacled granny was unrepentant, and said she would keep cooking with :ganja.
"I had :ganja this morning in my scrambled eggs and I'll have :ganja again for lunch. I'm not giving it up," she told Channel 4 News.
Tabram has become a symbol for the legalise :ganja campaign. On her website, grandma-eats-cannabis.com (http://www.grandma-eats-cannabis.com) , she promises soon to provide free :ganja recipes, as well as tea towels and mugs for sale.
Last year, the government downgraded :ganja from the same class as cocaine and ecstasy to a lower class of illegal drug, which means police are not expected to arrest people for possessing small amounts but can jail them for supplying it to others.
Police said they raided Tabram's home after a tip-off in May last year and found 31 :ganja plants along with hydroponic cultivation equipment. In a later raid they found 47 bags of "skunk", a particularly strong form of :ganja.
The set-up at Tabram's home "bore all the hallmarks of any sophisticated :ganja dealer", police said in a statement.
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Patricia Tabram from East Lea in Northumberland, who said she uses :ganja to alleviate pains in her neck and back, pleaded guilty to possession of :ganja with intent to supply.
But Judge David Hodson said he would not make a "martyr" of her when she returned to Newcastle Crown Court for sentencing on Friday. Instead, she received a six-month suspended prison sentence.
The white-haired, bespectacled granny was unrepentant, and said she would keep cooking with :ganja.
"I had :ganja this morning in my scrambled eggs and I'll have :ganja again for lunch. I'm not giving it up," she told Channel 4 News.
Tabram has become a symbol for the legalise :ganja campaign. On her website, grandma-eats-cannabis.com (http://www.grandma-eats-cannabis.com) , she promises soon to provide free :ganja recipes, as well as tea towels and mugs for sale.
Last year, the government downgraded :ganja from the same class as cocaine and ecstasy to a lower class of illegal drug, which means police are not expected to arrest people for possessing small amounts but can jail them for supplying it to others.
Police said they raided Tabram's home after a tip-off in May last year and found 31 :ganja plants along with hydroponic cultivation equipment. In a later raid they found 47 bags of "skunk", a particularly strong form of :ganja.
The set-up at Tabram's home "bore all the hallmarks of any sophisticated :ganja dealer", police said in a statement.
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