MOST mums chat to their daughters over a cup of tea and a biscuit – but not Karen Dixon.

This 42-year-old mother smoked drugs at home with her 15-year-old, and despite being almost sent to prison for it, says she has done nothing wrong.

Last Thursday she was told by a judge to try and kick her own 20-year drug addiction and ordered to take part in a drugs testing programme.

But for Miss Dixon, the whole case was a waste of police time and she thinks they should be concentrating on more serious crime.

“Why should I get done for smoking in my own house?” she said.

“I’ve been smoking cannabis since I was 18, and I’ve got previous for possession, but I never smoked when I was pregnant, and I don’t see what’s wrong with it. It’s never done me any harm.”

When her daughter Sammie-Jo was 15 she admitted to her mum that she too smoked the drug.

Miss Dixon said: “When she told me I said I’d rather she smoked it at home than out on the street.

“I don’t think it’s that wrong. My 23-year-old son smokes it too. Why is it that dangerous? About 99 per cent of people I know smoke it.”

She added that ever since the police raided their house, her daughter had given up the drug and is now at college studying child care.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how police raided their home in Railway Street, Northfleet, on February 14 and seized 15.9g of cannabis and 238mg of amphetamine.

Alex Wilson, prosecuting, said Dixon maintained the drugs were for her use only. She admitted allowing her now 16-year-old daughter to smoke cannabis.

She also admitted possessing drugs and permitting premises to be used for smoking cannabis. She has previous convictions for drug possession in 1998 and 2002.

Judge Andrew Patience, QC, was told that Dixon had not previously been given help with her addiction.

She was said to be “incredibly motivated,” drug free and submitting herself for regular testing.

Imposing six months imprisonment suspended for two years, the judge said: “What I don’t like about this case is not only possession of drugs for your own use, you permitted premises to be used for smoking cannabis by your daughter.

“After police arrested you for that, no doubt on police bail, you were arrested for possession of cocaine.”

He added: “Allowing a child to smoke and allowing your premises to be used is enough to send you to prison.”

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