POLICE RAID LEFT MY CHILDREN TERRIFIED
Source: Hull
Daily Mail, UK
Pub Date: Friday
23 January 2004
Pub LTE: Police
Raid Left My Children Terrified
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POLICE RAID LEFT
MY CHILDREN TERRIFIED
I am writing in
reply to the letter headed "He put family at risk" (Mail, January 8) which
accused Carl Wagner of endangering his family through cannabis use.
Reader G Coleman
suggested that the police's actions were justified because Mr Wagner "put
cannabis before his family."
This could not
be further from the truth. My husband always has and always will put his family
first.
He is an honest
man with strong principles and beliefs, whose only crime is to tell the truth
about a therapeutic herb, instead of hiding away his cannabis use like some
kind of criminal as the law would make him.
Our children are
brought up in a safe, loving, happy and stable environment. They are polite,
intelligent and popular children. Anyone who has met them would vouch for that.
It is one thing
to disagree with someone's opinion but to make assumptions about them as a
person, or indeed a parent, just because they have the courage to voice that
opinion is an entirely different thing altogether.
If G Coleman or
anyone had been at our home on the day the riot police arrived and witnessed
the terrified reaction of our little girl to seeing her daddy handcuffed and
taken away, you would have realised the harm this raid has done to them.
If they suffer
nightmares, it won't be because of my husband's outspoken views on cannabis but
because of repressive laws and heavy-handed police.
And for what?
A plant that
used to grow all over the country and our great-grandparents would have
accepted as a common and effective medicine.
Arresting people
like Carl, who have done no harm, simply makes a mockery of the law.
Samantha Wagner,
Hull