Melville House Books

A 66-year-old grandmother who “cooks treats using cannabis” as treatment for her depression and back pain, and who is up on possession charges in an English court, has written a cookbook called Grandma Eats Cannabis. According to a BBC News report, Patricia Tabram “bakes cannabis-laced biscuits, soups and casseroles for herself and friends.” She has sent the manuscript to the publishers of convicted drug dealer and cookbook author Howard Marks while she awaits her 11 March trial date. She says when the police showed up at her house in response to a tip that she had numerous pot plants in the attic, “I invited them in. I told them to look in the loft and I offered them some tea and biscuits.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.