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From puppets to politics in bid to legalise cannabis

Daily Post, North Wales

Wednesday 06 Apr 2005

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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 Mon 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."

 

 

 

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