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PUPPETS TO POLITICS IN BID TO LEGALISE CANNABIS
Source: Daily Post, North Wales
Pub date: Thursday, April 7, 2005
Subj:
From puppets to politics in bid to legalise cannabis
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AN international puppeteer, who was jailed
for drug offences 12 years ago, is standing as a Legalise Cannabis Alliance
candidate at next month's general election in the marginal Ynys Môn seat.
Yesterday, as he picked up his election
papers from county council headquarters in Llangefni, Tim Evans, 48, who
entertains under the name Professor Tim, said he was determined to make his
mark on the campaign trail in Anglesey, which has already been singled out by
political pundits as one of the key election battlegrounds in Wales.
Mr Evans, a former commercial diver, who has
lived on the island since 1963 - his father was an officer at RAF Valley -
breeds award-winning Rhodesian Ridgebacks at his cottage home in Bodorgan and
last month won prizes at Crufts, the world's greatest dog show.
"I am standing to get the legalise
cannabis message across as I believe the Government's drug laws are wrong,
especially when it leads to people who use the drug for medicinal purposes
being convicted, which is happening every day."
He was sent to prison for possessing
cannabis in 1993. "I used the drug when I was in a wheelchair, a legacy of
my diving days, and waiting for an operation. I used it to wean myself off more
powerful legal painkillers that were doing far more damage."