SID
WHITWORTH, LEGALISE CANNABIS
Source: Evening Post, Wales
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Subj: Sid Whitworth Legalise Cannabis
Web: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/
Cited: Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.ccguide.org/lca/lca.php
Sid Whitworth is the Legalise Cannabis Alliance candidate for Carmarthen
East and Dinefwr.
Sid, from Maesglas near Penygroes, is a 47-year-old businessman who has
lived and worked in Carmarthenshire for 16 years.
During his 25 years as a journalist he worked for weekly and daily
newspapers in Hertfordshire, Hong Kong and South Wales, and in 1984 won a commendation
in the national EMAP awards for a series of campaigning articles.
Sid is a member of Dinefwr Green Group and believes passionately that
politics should be about protecting the environment and not in waging wars, building
huge bureaucratic empires and bowing to multi-national corporate power.
Sid, a divorced father-of-one, does voluntary work once a week at the
DGG's fundraising shop in Llandeilo. He is a Buddhist who enjoys walking,
cycling and flute playing, and is a vegetarian and teetotal non-smoker of
tobacco.
He has campaigned for the UK's withdrawal from the EU, and is currently
setting up a media recycling business in Ammanford.
Under his three-point manifesto, Sid said: "The legalisation of
cannabis would enable the NHS to prescribe it for the benefit of thousands of
patients - saving millions, even billions, of pounds by replacing expensive,
synthetic medicines.
"Once cannabis is legalised the Legalise Cannabis Alliance will
embark on other campaigns in order to regain people's human rights and
liberalise other areas of law many see as too harsh, such as the three point
penalty for speed camera offences.
"Hemp (the cannabis plant) can be grown almost anywhere. New
industries could be set up to manufacture cannabis products and farmers could
make money growing hemp for rope, paper, clothes, cosmetics. Methanol produced
from cannabis biomass could partially replace petrol and diesel. It is also
much less polluting than fossil fuels."