A grandmother is facing jail after cooking up recipes laced with cannabis.

Patricia Tabram, 66, began using the illicit drug in her country kitchen as a "natural remedy" to ease a painful back injury after a car crash. Soon she was throwing dinner parties for elderly friends who chipped in £150 a time for the secret ingredient in her unique "hot pots".

But local police were quickly on the scent of her mind- blowing soups, curries and chocolate cake. She guided five officers to the attic, where they found 31, 10in-high seedlings and self-seal bags used to supply the drug to unnamed friends. "They thought it was in a hut outside," she recalled, "But I told them it wasn't. "They took my diaries, my nail scissors which I used to cut up the buds, and my pamphlets and books which I used for research."

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Posted by Lawren at January 27, 2005 06:18 AM

You Said

Now this cracks me up

Says: EJ at January 27, 2005 07:45 AM

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Well, it's good to know that's one less criminal at the dinner party.

I can sleep at night.

Says: Kevin the Interloper at January 27, 2005 08:58 AM

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