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Patricia Tabram, a cannabis-growing grandmother, said today that she
expects to be sent to jail after police discovered four marijuana plants in
her home.
The 66-year-old, who says that she is "medicating" friends who are sick or
in pain because conventional medicines do not work, compared herself
to Emmeline Pankhurst, the pioneering suffragist, saying she was willing
to face her fate.
Mrs Tabram was given a six-month prison term, suspended for two years, in
April when she admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply from her
home in East Lea, in Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland.
Acting on a tip-off, Northumbria police raided her bungalow last week and
found the illegal plants. A spokeswoman said: "As a result of information
received, we executed a warrant at an address in the Hexham area on the
morning of Friday, September 16. A 66-year-old Hexham woman
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