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TIM NIXON has spent many years advocating for drug law reform, and has chosen to lend his heart and voice to the political legalisation movement. A professional primary educator in the independent systems of New South Wales and Queensland for the last nineteen years, twelve years spent educating children within the Ninderry electorate, he holds a double degree in both Education and the Arts, focused on sociology and anthropology.
Tim established his website, Responsible Choice, in 2011 out of concern over the distinct lack of visible debate regarding the illicit status of cannabis in Australian society. It is an educational resource, juxtaposing the relative harms of using alcohol to those from cannabis use.
Invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry in 2016 looking at personal and community impacts of legalisation of cannabis in Australia, he took the opportunity to criticise the Federal Health Department directly and publicly about their anti-harm reduction stance on cannabis.
Tim is a medical cannabis patient and has held a personal relationship with cannabis for decades. He believes that robust Australian medical, recreational and industrial cannabis/hemp industries are essential for prosperity into the future.
Tim understands that the harm reduction impact provided by legalisation of cannabis would be a safer, non-carcinogenic alternative to alcohol and tobacco, and believes in the massive positive impact it can have on the use and abuse of pharmaceutical opiates. He advocates for sensible and practical drug laws based on relative harms to the user, rather than laws based on propaganda and discrimination.
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