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Now there is another joint operation that has moved all the stories from this address and making it easier to spread the word; Cannabis.

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Hemp Seed Chocolate Cake.

Hemp seed chocolate cake is a winner at the show.

You need a large pressure cooker 11inch, the cake 9 1/2 inch, sits on an upside down steamer, so its not sitting in the bottom of the pot.
The pressure cooker has 3 cups of water in the bottom, the cake sits in its container on top of the upside down steamer, the cake is covered with 3 layers greaseproof paper and steamed for one hour.

On a very low temperature.

You need 375g of dark cooking chocolate-melt all but 3 bars, add 3 Tbls good quality sour cream, and 2/3 cup of macadamia oil melted in a bowl over simmering water, when its all melted stir in 1 cup of sifted hemp meal and leave until blood temperature.

I pressure cook a giant beetroot, when cool grate it on the fine setting of the hand grater you will need one cup. 

You need to cook up 1/2 cup dates in 1/3 cup of nice tea, dilma, or lady grey.
 

When the tea has absorbed into the dates and its cool mash it up with a fork make sure no stones in it, 

then add 2 tsp vanilla extract and 2 fresh eggs, 

add to chocolate mix with 2/3 cup brown sugar.
 

Add 1 2/3 cups flour,2 tsp BP, 1tst B soda,1tsp cinnamon, mix well- lastly add grated beetroot.

When cool, melt last 3 bars chocolate with 2 Tbsp sour cream when smooth spread over cake, very rich cake have small pieces, keeps well in airtight container in fridge for up to 3 weeks.

This chocolate cake has won 2 years in a row at the Nimbin Country Show, '07 and '08. 

The annual traditional country show is held each September at the Nimbin Showground.

The Nimbin Country Show.
Saturday and Sunday, September 26th and 27th, 2009. 

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AGM for NIMFM.

Nimbin Community Radio Station.

NIMFM - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

1:00PM 29TH OCTOBER 2009
The NimFM committee would like to inform all its members that this years AGM will be held in the Community School Room at the Nimbin Community Centre on the 29th of October, 2009.

Please pay your membership before the meeting if you haven’t already done so. (Non-financial members and non-members can address the floor but can’t register a vote or nominate.)

Agenda:

• Appointment of Chairperson
• Apologies
• Minutes of previous AGM
• Business Arising
• Correspondence
• Presidents Report
• Treasurers Report
• Ethnic Broadcasters Report
• NAB Report
• Resignation of Management Committee and election of new Committee
• General Discussion
• Refreshments
  

We hope to see you all there!

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+612 6689 0279 (Office Phone and Fax)
+612 6689 0277 (Studio Phone)
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BIG JOINT Monday.

POLITE/BIG JOINT Flying Squad: Rally at the Powerhouse Museum. 
There is to be a Cannabis Legalisation Rally commencing at 8 am on the 7^th of September at the Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo.  

The purpose of the Rally is twofold; to protest the current Cannabis laws in Australia and to draw attention to the bias implicit in the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre.  (NCPIC) whose First National Cannabis Conference is being held at the same venue and time.
 
The NCPIC is NOT providing unbiased information to the Australian public.  In its role as an information service they should be providing information based on recent studies that indicate:

• Cannabis is not a Gateway Drug¹
• Cannabis does not have a causal link with Schizophrenia²
• Cannabis does not cause lung cancer³

They also confuse the problems caused by prohibition with their claimed harms of Cannabis use.⁴
They fail to provide any accurate or useful information to medical users of Cannabis via their telephone service. 
There are no pro-cannabis speakers included in the agenda for the first National Cannabis Conference, so instead there will be information available outside the conference at the protest rally.

A Working Party established by the NSW Government to examine the use of cannabis for medical purposes concluded in its final report (August 2000) that medical conditions for which cannabis may be of medical benefit are :

• HIV-related wasting and cancer related wasting,
• Pain unrelieved by conventional treatments,
• Neurological disorders including (but not limited to) multiple sclerosis (MS), Tourette's syndrome and motor neurone disease,
• Nausea and vomiting in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy which does not respond to conventional treatments. ⁵

 Canada has Federal Medical Marijuana laws, as do 14 States of the USA, 

The Netherlands, and several other countries in the world have decriminalised Cannabis use and possession.  The rally intends to highlight these facts and asks the question, why are we being left behind by our government through the agency of the NCPIC? 

The BIG JOINT will be appearing at the Rally fresh from it's appearance at Lismore hospital, where protesters caught the attention of Kevin Rudd as they appealed for medicinal use of Cannabis to be allowed. 

There will be some speakers and entertainment at the rally and a HEMP information stand will be offering advice to people interested in alternative foods, fibres, paper manufacturing and other associated Cannabis uses.  This rally has been recorded with the Traffic Division of the NSW Police Department as required. 

References: 

1 http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/study-say-marijuana-no-gateway-drug-12116.html 

2 http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Schizophrenia-link-cannabis-denied/article-1288926-detail/article.html 

3 http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/142271/smoking_marijuana_does_not_cause_lung_cancer/?page=entire 

4 http://ncpic.org.au/assets/downloads/ncpic/news/ncpic-news/helping-someonw-with-problem-cannabis-use-mental-health-first-aid-guidelines.pdf 

5 http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=1778 

There is also further information on this site http://nimbinmardigrass.blogspot.com/2009/08/sydney-rules-cannabis-protest-rally.html 

And information and links on this site http://cannabisrally.yolasite.com/

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/

Powerhouse Museum 

500 Harris Street Ultimo, SYDNEY.

From 8:00 am 

 

http://www.BIGJOINT.org

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H*E*M*P* 

Help End Marijuana Prohibition.
Join the Party. Membership forms are at;
http://www.AustralianHempParty.com

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Pot Seed Martyr's Global 4:20.

Free Marc Emery: Rally For The Prince of Pot - Saturday, September 19, 2009. 

Marc is headed for a US federal prison at the end of September, and we want a demonstration to be seen around the world!
We hope to have at least 420 cities holding protests, and it would be great to see a show of support from at least one city in Australia - do you think you can help?

Across the globe, we hope for a rally in every country we can find a supporter to lead a rally, wherever on the earth they may be, at Canadian embassies or consulates, courthouses, or main intersections.
Help by planning a rally and organising with others in their community. 

Please contact Cannabis Culture ( Canada 604-689-0590) or Marc and Jeremiah's directly (marc@cannabisculture.com and Jeremiah@cannabisculture.com) if you would like to organise and host the event or if you want to know who to contact in your area.

Here's the information:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/worldwide-rally-prince-pot-marc-emery

Many thanks for all you do,
Jodie Emery.
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Isn't all drug use a health issue?

 BIG JOINT to N*C*P*I*C*

The BIG JOINT had an eventful outing to the Lismore Hospital when PM Rudd visited recently on his health rescue mission across the country. AAP had written a story that was printed across the nation that morning,'Lobbyists to ambush Rudd with giant joint." And the giant inflatable didn't let them down, dancing majestically in the sharp breeze until it pricked itself on the hospitals "smoke free' sign.

 "Isn't all drug use a health issue?" asked a Polite spokesperson.
"We are as determined as ever to keep cannabis law reform on the agenda. The PM needs to pull this issue out from the bottom of the too hard basket. Just this month Mexico and Argentina joined the growing list of countries allowing personal amounts of previously illegal drugs. The reasons they gave...'to counteract prison overcrowding, an increase in organised crime and rampant drug violence' are a clear warning to us. There is also a new report out about Portugal, decriminalised since 1996, having less problems and a decline in drug use! How long do we have to wait for some sanity on this issue?"

And so the BIG JOINT is again venturing off, this time to Sydney's Powerhouse Museum to attend the first National Cannabis Conference on September 7-8, hosted by NCPIC, the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre. The POLITE BJ crew will bring some real life experience to the conference and again be collecting HEMP Party members and putting decriminalisation on the menu.
"Stopping at a couple of beaches on the way down, we want to bring awareness to the desperate need to end prohibition and regulating medical cannabis as the obvious next step on the way to full relegalization," said Max Stone, the unofficial smokesperson for the mission.

 On  Friday September 4th, a "Cannabis Convoy" of unmarked POLITE cars and vans will be leaving Nimbin and if you are interested in joining drop in to the Polite Bureau HEMP Bar.

• Saturday BIG JOINT plans to visit Dixon Park Beach in Newcastle.
• Sunday visits Bondi Beach for a photo op and membership drive.  
• Monday, BIG JOINT visits the Power House Museum, 500 Harris Street Ultimo, assembling at 8am. 

The POLITE Service in conjunction with the Interpolite will be doing a dawn photo shoot / live web cast starting at 4.20.AM (Aussie time) so that our U.K and European supporters can watch. This venue will be somewhere in the Sydney C.B.D and will be announced 'twitterishly' at WWW.BIGJOINT.ORG and facebooked as well!
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And the POLITE are forming a choir, apparently to sing at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House with theBIG JOINT in early October.
 Anybody wanting to join the POLITE Choir should register at POLITE Headsquarters.

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Make All Drug Use Legal.

The war on drugs has failed. 
Despite the best efforts of the current and previous governments and the billions of dollars spent in law enforcement, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and easier to get than they were 35 years ago. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before.
There is no medical, scientific, or legal justification for a war on drugs policy. With seventy-percent of cases in the criminal courts being indirectly or directly drug related, we could revolutionize criminal justice and substantially lower the tendency toward repetition of criminal or antisocial behaviour if we simply wiped out the drugs statute book.
Our panellists argue that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. They agree that all drugs should be legalized and the markets then regulated.
Dr Alex Wodak is the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent's Hospital. He is also President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and author (with Timothy Moore) of 'Modernising Australia's drug policy' published by UNSW Press.

Greg Barns is a former senior advisor to the Howard Government, New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner and federal Finance Minister John Fahey.  He is the author of What’s Wrong with the Liberal Party? (2003) and Selling the Australian Government: Politics and Propaganda from Whitlam to Howard (2005).

Norm Stamper is a 34-year veteran police officer who retired as Seattle's chief of police in 2000. He is currently a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com), a 10,000-member organization representing cops, judges, prosecutors, FBI/DEA agents, prison wardens and others who now want to legalize and regulate all drugs after witnessing horrors and injustices fighting on the front lines of the "war on drugs."

Duration: 60 minutes with no interval

http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/priority/fodimakealldrugslegal.aspx

Make All Drug Use Legal

• Presented By
  Sydney Opera House & St James Ethics
• Venue
  The Studio
  
  
• Date: Sunday 4th of October
• Program
  Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. Stamper goes on to expose a troubling culture of racism, sexism, and homophobia that is still pervasive within the 21st century force, exploring how such prejudices can be addressed. He reveals the dangers and temptations that cops on the street face, describing in gripping detail their split second life-and-death decisions.

DR. Norm Stamper; LEAP Speaker profile
http://leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Speakers&bio=217
Norm Stamper is the author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing, Nation Books, 2005 (see www.normstamper.com) and Removing Managerial Barriers to Effective Police Leadership, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, D.C., 1992.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norm-stamper

YouTube video link

YouTube video link

Stamper videos

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Australian Tour Dates
http://hempembassy.blogspot.com/2009/08/drug-law-reform-tour-of-australia.html
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 LEAP confirmation.

LEAP Goes Down Under: The Australian Tour
Festival for Dangerous Ideas: Make All Drugs Legal

FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/about/program_priority/festival_of_dangerous_ideas.aspx

The Nimbin HEMP Embassy would like to see Dr. Norm in a POLITE hat outside the Sydney Opera House with the BIG JOINT, or is that a dangerous idea?

Drug Law Reform tour of Australia:

Dr. Norm Stamper, (LEAP) Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. 
In October, the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation (ADLRF) is bringing to Australia Dr Norm Stamper, for a range of debates, talks and media engagements to talk about sensible drug policy. Dr Alex Wodak is the President of the ADLRF and is helping to organise the trip as his Project Assistant. Other ADLRF members include Ann Symonds and Penny Sharpe.

NORM Stamper, Ph.D, was a police officer for 34 years. He served as chief of the Seattle Police Department from 1998 to 2000. He also served as executive director of Mayor Pete Wilson's Crime Control Commission for three years. Mr Stamper is a major proponent of significant drug law reform believing the "war on drugs" has actually been a war on people. He is one of the strongest voices in the US advocating legalisation of illicit drugs.

Norm will be in Australia in October outlining his views on drug law reform. These include:

Regulated legalisation of all drugs would make our neighborhoods, and our citizens, safer and healthier;

The "war on drugs" has failed and turned into a war on people costing thousands of lives and costing the US $69 billion per year;

Sharing his approach as chief of the Seattle Police Department where several programs were set up creating new bureaus of Professional Responsibility, Community Policing and Family and Youth Protection. Within months his agency had formed one of the country's best responses to domestic violence;

An examination of the failed approach in the US with billions of dollars being wasted on federal, state and local police, courts, prosecutors, prisons, probation, parole and other punishment-related programs;

His role as an advisor to Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. LEAP is a drug law reform organisation comprising former and current police officers, US government agents and other law enforcement agents who oppose the war on drugs. LEAP believes legalised regulation it the only ethical and efficient way to undo the damage caused by the war on drugs.

Norm has recently released a book called Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing.

Norm Stamper's visit is sponsored by the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation (ADLRF). The ADLRF is an incorporated non-profit organisation which promotes open debate on drug policy and provides information on alternatives which reduce the harm, social costs and personal tragedies caused by illicit drug use.

It exists to encourage a more rational, tolerant and humanitarian approach to the problems created by drugs and drug use in Australia. The primary objectives of the ADLRF include the urgent adoption of drug policies based on strategies of harm minimisation throughout Australia. The ADLRF believes that changing public opinion will require a sustained campaign to correct much of the misinformation which persists on drug issues.
YouTube video link

LEAP 

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Nimbin Art Collective.

NEW EXHIBITION OPENS IN NIMBIN-


The Grand Opening and Auction evening of the newly formed Nimbin Art Collective was a great success and filled with the typical Nimbin community spirit. The exhibition opened last Friday at the Regional Gallery (the rainbow painted building at the northern end of town in the Community Centre grounds) which is now a working studio and permanent exhibition running for the next few months.

The new Nimbin Art Collective attracted an overflowing crowd to see the exceptional quality from some of Nimbin’s most popular artists. The Collective held an auction of artworks as a fundraiser to help pay the rent.

One of the artists, Roslyn Parry, said, “we are thrilled with the success of the night and the gallery sold over $4000 worth. We are determined to try and make this idea work and many thanks to the Community Centre for the opportunity to lease the space, the Spangled Drongo restaurant for food and wine on the night, NIM-FM for providing the auctioneers, and the Nimbin CTC for printing”.
The success of the evening has inspired another auction night in a couple of months, and if you wish to be on the mailing list please email; inez.price@bigpond.com/

Artists whose work is for sale at the gallery currently include Burri Jerome, Gilbert Laurie, Elspeth Jones, Trisha Dalmas, Rodney Sharpe, Roslyn Parry, John Tredrea and Max Maxxted. The gallery is open most days and you are welcome to come and spend some time with the artists or just browse their work.

The Nimbin Visitor Centre on 66891388 is now open seven days a week 10 – 4pm and is situated across the road from the gallery and can confirm the artists are in fact in house if you are travelling to Nimbin especially for it.
The large painting below by Rodney Sharpe attracted keen bidding at the auction....

Nimbin April Fool's Day Raid - 2008

No Joke.

On April Fools Day 2008 over 70 Police, some in full riot gear like Star War storm-troopers, accompanied by Lismore Council Officers, raided the Museum, Hemp Embassy and Hemp Bar seeking something strong enough to close these premises down. They wouldn't use that many police to arrest a murderer, so the politics are obvious. News services were told not to attend as the Police Media Unit would provide footage.


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