Cannabis Grandma

[zahncrelnik]

I found this interesting article on the BBC NEWS website:

from BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/4208699.stm)
Cannabis grandmother's book hopes
Patricia Tabram
Patricia Tabram baked biscuits and soups with cannabis

A grandmother on a drugs charge who cooks treats using cannabis has written a
book about her activities which she aims to get published.
Patricia Tabram, 66, of Hexham, Northumberland,
bakes cannabis-laced biscuits, soups and casseroles for herself and friends.
She hopes her book called Grandma Eats Cannabis will be in print soon.

Ms Tabram appeared in court this week after admitting
possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
Proceedings were adjourned to allow for the preparation of reports
and she was remanded on bail until 11 March.
The grandmother-of-two began cooking for friends using food
laced with the illegal drug after being introduced to it last year.

Police raids

Mrs Tabram, a former chef, said: "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."
But Northumbria Police were tipped off and twice raided her house in May
and June last year.
They seized 31 cannabis plants growing in her loft and another
one from her hallway table.
She said: "When the police came to my door I invited them in.
I told them to look in the loft and I offered them some tea and biscuits."

Mrs Tabram, whose home contains cookery books and books by
convicted drug dealer Howard Marks, is hoping Marks' publishers will
take on her book.

[StephX]

"When the police came to my door I invited them in.
I told them to look in the loft and I offered them some tea and biscuits.":

What was she trying to do? Calm them down with the biscuits?

Seriously, though. I wonder how much pain she was in before cooking with the cannabis? I wonder how many medications her doctor tried to give her?

This reminds me of an aunt I have. She has some sort of degenerative (sp?) disease in her spine and I hear is in terrible pain every single day for the past few years. The meds her docs give her spaces her out, and, if she wants to get anything done she has to suffer.

Man....you know, I've never been into the drug thing, and, I've never been much of a drinker...Call me crazy, but, I don't think I'd see no problems in people like my aunt ingesting/smoking a cannabis plant if it helped.

[BrowderChick]

OMG that article is good. :lol

It would be even better if it stated whether or not the cops ate the biscuits.
:smokin:

I see nothing wrong with using it for medicinal purposes. To offer it to others is techically a no-no though. If it helps her, then it helps her. By all means let her get a doctors recommendation for it. But as long as she keeps it for herself only, then I see no problem. Once she starts selling it then there is a problem.

[scrape_medic]

I see no problem either......having met a number of patients who are dependent on strong pain medications to be able to function normally..and these are people who have to take opiate or synthetic opiates to exist. (All prescription drugs). The side effects of many of these drugs can be devastating, so if cannabis could be used as an alternative, safely, then why not?

[zahncrelnik]

I also believe that is okay to use for medicinal purposes.

:yes:
~
:smokin:

[Col.Batguano]

Mommy, grammy scaring me.
she keeps calling herself the lizard king and is eating everything in the fridge.

[ItsThatGuy]

Hehe, the Lizard King. Good stuff.

[Judith]

Yeah, I have a good friend who has cancer and actually uses it for medicinal purposes. I kinda wish it were legalized, at least for that.

I felt so much better. I didn't know what I had taken so I asked my friends.
They said it was cannabis.


That sounds kinda dickish of her friends though. They should have told her first.

[blue]

I think its crazy that it is still illegal. It used to be in dozens of medicines that anyone could get (before the late 1930s when the hysteria began that it was EVIL, all due to one man--Harry J. Anslinger, who became Commissioner of Narcotics in 1932, and had a THING about it.) It is extremely safe (used for thousands of years in many cultures around the world), and very effective for pain, for stimulating appetite - to alleviate wasting from chemo and other reasons, and for lowering blood pressure and thus alleviating glaucoma. It is a lot safer than many substitute medicines.

[Judith]

It is a lot safer than many substitute medicines.


Well, that's the disputed territory, since there hasn't really been conclusive research that tells use what the long term effects of pot used as medication will do. I understand that, I just don't understand why we aren't researching it more.

[StephX]

Reefer maaaadneeeesss ;)
It some how makes you want to play the piano like crazy....


God, that was a bad movie...oooh I found a link to a site that streams it http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/misc_reefer.html ... an abridged (thankfully) version is here http://www.nj.org/video/web/Reefmd.html

[scrape_medic]

Well, that's the disputed territory, since there hasn't really been conclusive research that tells use what the long term effects of pot used as medication will do. I understand that, I just don't understand why we aren't researching it more.
They are....at least over here they are. Thedrug companies have created a pill version that takes the extracts the active ingredient in cannabis and it is being used in named patient cases.

[StephX]

Well, that's the disputed territory, since there hasn't really been conclusive research that tells use what the long term effects of pot used as medication will do. I understand that, I just don't understand why we aren't researching it more.

The cynic in me thinks that drug companies don't want to do research on something anyone can grow in their house (as the grandma in this article shows).

I'm a bit biased, though. I've had an iritating time finding a doc that would let me try "natural" thyoid replacement instead of $ynthroid for my hypothroidism. Wish me luck. I finally got a perscription from a informed doc (he knows lot of the research in other countries... he's Russian himself). Now I just need to find a pharmacy that will fill it (people have reported that some chains are telling customers that it has been discontinued when it has not...something fishy).

[Judith]

They are....at least over here they are. Thedrug companies have created a pill version that takes the extracts the active ingredient in cannabis and it is being used in named patient cases.

The cynic thinks that drug companies don't want to do research on something anyone can grow in their house (as the grandma in this article shows).

I try not to be cynical and pessimistic, but I tend to agree with Steph. There is a pill version over here too, I believe. If I recall correctly, it's several hundred dollars a pill, and less effective.

[Spedoinkel]

It wasan't just Anslinger, William Randolf Hurst was the guy who pushed it originally, and started running malicious articles in his paper.

And yes, drug companies don't want to do research on something that can be grown in your home, costing you practically nothing.

It's useful for more than just medication. It has numerous industrial applications, seeing as how the fibers are stronger than silk. Four times as much paper can be produced from and acre of canibis, than from trees, and the process of turingin it into paper uses less chemicals. Soaps, lubricants, fuel, shampoo, plastics.

Frelling politics!

[ItsThatGuy]

The cynic in me thinks that drug companies don't want to do research on something anyone can grow in their house

Correct, give'em a prize. There's a reason there's not so much an outcry against tobacco, but they scream that pot is killing american soldiers (you'd have to have seen a very stupid american anti-drug ad).

Pharmaceutical companies operate largely on supply and demand. Thats why this woman's being arrested while people die in pain because they couldn't bankroll cancer treatment.

[who45]

Pharmaceutical companies operate largely on supply and demand. Thats why this woman's being arrested while people die in pain because they couldn't bankroll cancer treatment. I totaly agree with you on that.