She Uses Drug to Ease Pain of Muscle Disease

A GRAN who suffers from a muscle disease has vowed to keep growing and smoking cannabis to ease her pain - despite being warned she will be sent straight to prison. Goanita Jacques, 48, was given a two-month suspended sentence for producing the drug when she appeared at Bradford Crown Court. If caught again she will be jailed.

But today she told the Courier: "If it's a crime to ease this agonising pain, they will have to send me to prison."

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