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Ahead of the crest.

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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The Politics of Ecstasy: By Timothy Leary.

Turn on, tune in and drop out. I didn't like Leary's style. But his overly rich, sub-McCluhanite flashiness and his funny views on religion didn't matter. 

Tim had the answers. Alright, you could tell from his style, he was a bit of boaster. But Tim was the only one who new where to go. Tim was the only one who told you the protocols. 

When you looked at your hand and suddenly you were able to identify every last pulsing capillary, fixed in utter astonishment, just this side of shock, Tim said that what was happening to you was clearly a kind of awareness that, if pursued, would propel you from the normal confines of your body, to a level where you were conscious of the molecular and sub-molecular basis of all things. 

There was an exciting comic book quality about Tim's adventures. 

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Timothy Leary - The man who turned on America

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FREEDOM and the.....

Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948 On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the page. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories." PREAMBLE Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed withnreason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Article 7. All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. Article 8. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Article 10. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. Article 11. (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. Article 14. (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Article 15. (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. Article 16. (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural  and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. Article 17. (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article 20. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association. Article 21. (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. Article 23. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. Article 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. Article 27. (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. Article 28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. Article 29. (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Article 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. REFERENCES ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.2 Wikisource   Human Rights Action Center   YouTube video

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 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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Environmental Justice.

A real-life example of the deadly mix of “wastes and race”

Robert D. Bullard directs the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. www.ejrc.cau.edu

Historically, African American and other people of color communities have borne a disproportionate burden of pollution from landfills, garbage dumps, incinerators, sewage treatment plants, chemical industries and a host of other polluting facilities. Many dirty industries have followed the “path of least resistance” allowing communities of color to become environmental "sacrifice zones" and the “dumping grounds” for all kinds of health-threatening operations. 

Nine out of ten EPA regions have racial disparities in the location of hazardous waste facilities. People of color comprise 28.5 percent of Region 4. However, people of color comprise the majority of residents living within two miles of the 67 commercial hazardous waste facilities in Alabama (66.3%), Florida (52.7%), Georgia (55.6%), Kentucky (51.5%), Mississippi (50.6%), North Carolina (55.9%), South Carolina (43.9), and Tennessee (53.8%).

Environmental Justice for All - YouTube video link
 

After nearly four decades, all of the Region 4 administrators have been white. None of the Region 4 administrators, under Democrats and Republicans, have adequately addressed legacy issues such as environmental racism, unequal protection, and policies and decisions that adversely and disproportionately impact African Americans and other people of color in the region. (article)
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OpEdNews -- www.ejrc.cau.edu 

 

EFA MAN: Wizard of High Resurrection.

EFA man had dirty socks and sandals with crusty old love handles. He spent most of his life going nowhere. EFA man was always cold and hungry, he wanted healthy food. He was losing the fight against evil viruses invaded his body.

One day EFA man found free hemp, a mobile phone and back pack, and then made money to win his battle. EFA man gave jobs and new hope to the people on the land. With the natural oil from cannabis seeds, they stopped the spread of disease, used them for food and fuel for their machines.

EFA man saved the forest from the greedy wood-chippers with the hemp plants strong and fast growing fibres. He made all sorts of things from just one plant. EFA man helped others relax from stress and keep calm with a few hemp flowers.

People believe that hemp is good medicine, have faith in herbs and healing is their mission. The omega Sisters of vitality say; "Some hemp oil today keeps the Doctor away."

Hempseed typically contains over 30% oil and about 25% protein, with considerable amounts of carbohydrates, dietary fibre, vitamins and minerals. Hempseed oil is over 80% in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), and is an exceptionally rich source of the two essential fatty acids (EFAs) linoleic acid (18:2 omega-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (18:3 omega-3). The omega-6 to omega-3 ratio (n6/n3) in hempseed oil is normally between 2:1 and 3:1, which is considered to be optimal for human health.

In addition, the biological metabolites of the two EFAs, gamma-linolenic acid (18:3 omega-6; GLA) and stearidonic acid (18:4 omega-3; SDA), are also present in hempseed oil. Subjective concerns over delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in hempseed foods are not supported by scientific evidence.

Hemp seed oil: 55% omega-6, 20% omega-3 Essential Fatty Acid. Bird discovers hemp buds, finds the seed good, tells EFA man. EFA man struggled with lack of hope until he found hemp and now the rest is history.
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Please find reason to question the validity of the hemp seed facts with a non governmental, non corporation, non prohibitionist, non moral crusader, etc, organizations.
Get with the program and debrief yourself of the fascist mind control and deception from the greedy capitalists that have conspired to portray natural herbs as evil. Wake up and look at the default model of vegetable protein with all the essential amino acids in significant proportions.

Did you know hemp seeds contain edestin and albumin similar to the protein of soy beans and egg whites? Get real with real food and natures perfect seed from the cannabis plant. No trans-fat, and they can be grown organically. Can you find a plant that is a very efficient way to reduce CO2 levels from the atmosphere? How could one plant replace major unsustainable industries? Do you need: Cotton, Coal, Crude Oil, Woodchip, Beef, Dairy or Soy Beans?

Guess which plant can provide strength to your immune system and help protect your body from viral infections and cardio-vascular disease? Question what you are told and look at where the money comes to maintain the status quo. In whose best interest is it to produce petrochemical drugs? Where does bio-fuel come from? What has soil fertility got to do with static electricity and micro-organisms? Does the oxygen/acetylene cycle stimulate anything in your garden?

Will you die from stupidity at the shopping mall in the fast food section? Find the evidence to prove cannabis is anything other than the most profitable and desirable plant on earth. Learn who has a patent on the hemp seed in the USA. Who can see the future with a worthless US dollar? Is Bird Flu, or SARS, AIDS and other viral epidemics the result of ignorance and/or bad judgement? Tell yourself why only Australia and New Zealand continue to ban hemp seed for human consumption. Ask the NRL which team used a protein supplement made from illegal hemp seeds.

Who knows the countries Canada export hemp to and what is it used for? What is Finola? What is serum globulin? Why do you need oxygen in your blood? Why does omega-3 help keep you healthy? Is it more profitable to treat the symptoms or the cause of an illness? Is your child prescribed a synthetic drug to correct some invented condition? Do you pay for a bad diet? Who is going to listen? Who is deluded, the hippie or the materialist? Is your weed better than mine? May I burn in hemp? Psychosis is the result from the lack of what?

Will Essential Fatty Acid man save the world like a normal super hero? Just say GROW!
Thanks to Elspeth for the sketches and the resources of the Nimbin HEMP Embassy for the production. 2008. Heathen J. Lovechild. NIMBIN TELEVISION
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Djanbung Gardens, Nimbin.

Pasture to Paradise
In 15 years, what was a degraded 5-acre cow pasture has transformed into a cornucopia of biodiversity and abundance.
At Djanbung Gardens you can experience a wide range of working systems demonstrating approaches to sustainable living and design through our guided and self-guide tours and training programs including short courses, part and full-time accredited training, and residential internships Here you can explore the gardens, gain insights into the working systems, history and design. 

The Erda Institute Inc faculty is a dynamic team of experiened permaculture practitioners representing a diverse range of experience and skills operating within a Bioregional Campus to integrate the vocational training with community education, in and beyond the classroom.

The Biogregional Campus brings together a network of trainers, specialists and experienced practitioners of permaculture and related trades and professions, businesses and comunity organisations, demonstration sites and projects within the Rainbow Region/Caldera bioregion and beyond. The Bioregional Campus is managed by Erda Institute Inc management comittee, faculty of APT trainers and specialist advisors and volunteers.

Robyn Francis
At the cutting edge of international design, consulting and training services for sustainable developments, Robyn Francis brings a wealth of professional experience in sustainable systems planning and design accumulated over 25 years.

Visionary, yet intensely practical, Robyn has a unique capacity to cut through to the core issues and essence of a project/situation to facilitate achievable outcomes and design strategies for sustainable developments which meet ecological, social, cultural and economic objectives.

permaculture.com.au

Another Nimbin success story. See more from the Alternative Capital at: Nimbin Australia

RAINBOW POWER COMPANY -

Electric Power Systems from Sustainable Energy Sources.

The Rainbow Power Company Ltd is an unlisted public company, incorporated in 1987 to design, manufacture, sell and install renewable energy equipment based on solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy sources.

The company is one of the largest and most experienced Renewable Energy companies in Australia, with a workforce of experienced and dedicated staff.

Nimbin
Based in Northern NSW on the East coast of Australia, the company's headquarters are unique in the southern hemisphere. Designed as a working demonstration of the technology it sells, and as a complete centre for its operations, it houses Rainbow Power Company and associate company Energy From Nature Home Pty Ltd.

http://www.rpc.com.au/

Another Nimbin success story. See more from the Alternative Capital at : Nimbin Australia

HEMP Party Drive.

NEW MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOR BRAVER HEMP PARTY MEMBERS-
Australian Hemp Party - Political organisation to re legalise and regulate cannabis for personal, medical and industrial uses in AUSTRALIA.
It is a natural consequence of Prohibition that many cannabis users are alarmed by official contact, and some move about without leaving forwarding addresses at Post Offices.

That is why we ask that you only become a member if you are settled and brave enough to reply to a registered letter or phone call from the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission), saying "Yes I am."

• If you can say "Yes, I am.", then "Yes We Can" make a difference.
• If you are contacted by the AEC please confirm your membership promptly.

Please don't join the HEMP Party unless you are willing to confirm your membership to AEC officials on the phone.
If you are unfindable or unwilling to confirm membership, don't join, because it stuffs it up for the rest of us. Sorry, but that's how it works. Give us as many ways to contact you as possible to make it easier to confirm your membership with the AEC.

LETS DO IT!

Help End Marijuana Prohibition.
Join the Party. Membership forms are at;
http://www.AustralianHempParty.com
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Facebook is host to more space for social interaction of Party members. Find the Group, the Cause and the Page. You can add to the momentum.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47648287470
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/187219
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-HEMP-Party/94315569790

With little chance of getting anyone elected why do we want a registered political party at all?
Because the $1500 it costs to put our name on the Senate Ballot paper buys us more access to the corridors of power than any number of $10,000 a plate political fund raising dinners.

Membership check
Section 123 of the Electoral Act requires a non Parliamentary party to have at least 500 members (who are entitled to enrolment) to be eligible for registration. A party's eligibility is assessed in two ways. The secretary supplies a statutory declaration annexing the membership forms provided, declaring that the forms are signed by the people identified on them and that they have been accepted by the party as members.

The AEC conducts a membership test on a random sample of 20. members of the Party. The purpose of this test is to check for incorrect memberships on the basis that if a party relies on memberships of people who do not consider themselves members, then it is unlikely to have the required membership to be eligible for registration. The criterion for a successful random membership check is. to achieve 19 confirmations of party membership from the 20 people chosen at random.

Main Party Policies on Cannabis.
> 1. To alleviate the suffering of the chronically or terminally ill.
> 2. To enhance the environment by replacing environmentally unsound products.
> 3. To reduce avenues of fast cash for terrorists, insurgents, arms traders, and security organisations.
> 4. To reduce the flow of cannabis money to criminal gangs.
> 5. To limit corrupting temptations available to Police, Customs Officials, and Prison Guards
> 6. To decriminalise hemp and drastically reduce Police workload, and free officers to tackle genuine crimes where it is not as easy to gain high arrest rates.
> 7. To remove an avenue for scaremongering by opportunistic politicians and journalists.
> 8. To hopefully lower the price of hemp.
> 9. To put an end to using dogs as a tool of discrimination against a harmless sector of the community.
> 10. To put an end to the marginalisation of cannabis users, indeed to try to put such petty behaviours to rest in many areas of politics.
> 11. To allow people to enjoy a spiritual, relaxing experience - legally.
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Do YOU have any policy or campaign ideas to put the HEMP Party into the hearts and minds of Australia?
http://www.AustralianHempParty.com

THC Free Cannabis Industry.

HEMP WORKSHOP – JIGGI HALL

Northern Rivers Hemp Inc is convening a workshop for people who are interested in participating in the local hemp industry.
The workshop will include talks by local hemp farmers and manufacturers followed by a hemp license application workshop. Northern Rivers Hemp Inc is a not-for-profit organization which has been formed by industry participants to support the establishment of the local hemp industry.

Last year, more than 60 prospective industry participants attended a similar workshop convened by Northern Rivers Hemp Inc, stimulating a high level of interest in the local hemp industry. Although the New South Wales hemp industry is still in its infancy - with commercial licenses being issued by NSW Department of Primary Industries for the first time earlier this year – the Northern Rivers Region already has the highest density of hemp licensees in the state.

Hemp is a low-THC strain of Cannabis sativa L. which has been cultivated worldwide for mellennia for the purposes of fibre and food production. Until recently, the production of hemp was prohibited under the Drugs Misuse and Trafficking Act despite the fact that it does not produce significant quantities of THC. Commercial hemp legislation is dealt with on a state and territory level rather than a Federal level, and licenses for commercial hemp production have been issued in Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia for several years.

One of the challenges facing the local hemp industry is that although hemp food products are now sold in supermarkets throughout the world, hemp food products cannot be sold in Australia. Hemp seed is a “superfood”, containing high quality protein, vitamins and more essential fatty acids than any other vegetable oils.

The workshop will take place at Jiggi Hall from 2pm to 5pm on Saturday 29 August. Entry cost is $5.

QUOTES
“The Northern Rivers Region is geo-politically positioned in a very favorable location for the establishment of an industrial hemp industry: The soils and climate are excellent, and the local Community, University and Department of Primary Industries have provided an unprecedented level of support for the establishment of a local hemp industry.” [Dr Keith Bolton, Vice President, Northern Rivers Hemp]

“Hemp seed is a superfood which has been used by humans for thousands of years. Hemp seed food products are sold in supermarkets around the world: Ironically, Australia is one of the few countries which still prohibits the sale of hemp food, and yet we still allow food companies to put toxic chemicals in our food which have been banned in most other countries. There is something terribly wrong about the leadership – or lack thereof – which has allowed this situation to happen” [Dr Keith Bolton- pictured]


Contacts:
Kenrick Riley on 02 66-888-163 (preferred contact)
Keith Bolton on 0428-888-123
www.northernrivershemp.org

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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....

iPhone Medical Cannabis Locator App.

Looking for safe access to your cannabis medicine? Need to find a physician? Have legal issues?
Cannabis by Cannabis Apps / Ajnag has created an iPhone application that allows you to quickly locate the nearest medical cannabis collectives / cooperatives, doctors, clinics, attorneys, organizations, and other patient services in states that have approved medical marijuana (cannabis) legislation.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ

Features * Locate medical cannabis collectives and cooperatives * Locate Doctors and Clinics * Locate Attorneys and Organizations * Lookup addresses and phone numbers for a 1000+ listings * Directory Tended by iMedicalCannabis.org / Patient ID Center

http://cannabisapps.com

http://ajnag.com

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ME TOO DRUGS -

Sometimes they're just the same old, same old. Me too drugs.

It’s expensive to produce an innovative drug. On average, the bill runs to more than $400 million. So drug companies often take a less costly route to create a new product. They chemically rejigger an oldie but goodie, craft a new name, mount a massive advertising campaign and sell the retread as the latest innovative breakthrough.

This strategy has shown great success for turning profits. Nexium, a “me-too” drug for stomach acid, has earned $3.9 billion for its maker, AstraZeneca, since it went on the market in 2001. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration classified three-fourths of the 119 drugs it approved last year as similar to existing ones in chemical makeup or therapeutic value.

But in the end, the real question is about pharmaceutical innovation. While me-toos fill the development pipeline, the benefits flow largely to the haves of this world. Few resources go toward drugs targeting diseases that primarily affect developing nations. So, what about the rest of the world?
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LEAP's Dispatches from the Front Line... August 2009

Not a Member Yet? Anyone Can Join! Forward this Message to a Friend! Dear Heathen: LEAP's speakers deliver our message to audiences all over the world through a variety of avenues, and one of the most gratifying is attending conferences. In July, LEAP Executive Director Jack Cole and retired Chief of Police Tim Datig attended the National Conference of State Legislators in Philadelphia. The NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves all United States legislators and their staffs, and holds an annual summit which about twenty percent of the nation's state legislators attend. Speakers at the 2009 conference included Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, economist David Wyss, and our ownJack Cole, who spoke on the panel "Drug Demand and Diversion," where he emphasized the need to end prohibition. The LEAP booth, staffed by Jack, Tim, new LEAP Speakers Bureau Director Shaleen Aghi Title, and volunteer Project Coordinator EthelRowland, was one of the busiest, talking to dozens of legislators each day and signing up over one hundred new members. And, as usual, well over seventy percent of those who talked to the booth staffers stated that they agreed with LEAP's mission. A few days before the NCSL, LEAP attended DemocracyFest in Burlington, Vermont, where Department of Corrections Superintendent Richard Van Wickler and retired Deputy Chief of Police Joseph Brooks staffed the LEAP booth. Rick also gave a presentation, which was chosen as one of the sessions to be taped by CCTV Channel 17. Speaking of conferences, LEAP is co-sponsoring the 2009 International Drug Policy Reform Conference November 12-14… so save the date! Here are just a few of the issues our speakers addressed in July. We hope you'll share "Dispatches from the Front Line…" with a friend. -LEAP Staff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter Cronkite Recognized the Drug War Failure and the Ending Prohibition Solution Walter Cronkite, America's trusted broadcaster and father figure to a nation for decades, died in New York at the age of 92 on July 17. To the last, Cronkite was perceptive and engaged in the well-being of his country and the world. In the final four years of his life, he publicly recognized what is perhaps America's greatest and most perverse, if as yet unclaimed, nemesis - the failed war on drugs. Cronkite on LEAP's End Prohibition Now DVD: "Anyone concerned about the failure of our $69 billion-a-year War on Drugs should watch this 12-minute program. You will meet front line, ranking police officers who give us a devastating report on why it cannot work. It is a must-see for any journalist or public official dealing with this issue." For more on Walter Cronkite, please view the complete article by James Gierach, and Jim Doherty's letter to the Seattle Times. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Tobacco Precedent Any law disobeyed by more than 100 million Americans, the number who've tried marijuana at least once, is bad public policy. As a 34-year police veteran, I've seen how marijuana prohibition breeds disrespect for the law, and contempt for those who enforce it.. Let's examine arguments against legalizing marijuana: use and abuse would skyrocket; the increased potency of today's marijuana would exacerbate social and medical problems; and legalization would send the wrong message to our children. It's reasonable to expect a certain percentage of adults, respectful or fearful of the current prohibition, would give pot a first try if it were made legal. But, given that the U.S. is already the world's leading per capita marijuana consumer (despite our relatively harsh penalties), it's hard to imagine a large and lasting surge in consumption. Further, under a system of regulated legalization and taxation, the government would be in a position to offer both prevention programs and medical treatment and counseling for those currently abusing the drug. It's even possible we'd see an actual reduction in use and abuse, just as we've halved tobacco consumption through public education - without a single arrest… To continue reading Norm Stamper's NYTimes.com "Room for Debate" blog, please click here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAP Speakers in the News Our speakers were especially busy with radio, television and print interviews in July, helping to shape the emerging national debate about drug policy. Neill Franklin was on the air in Utah, Judge Jim Gray on NBC4 in Los Angeles, Mike Gilbert spoke on the radio in El Paso, Texas and Ann Arbor, Michigan, James Anthony in Santa Cruz, California, Tony Ryan (pictured) and LEAP were the main focus of a TV story in Missouri, Peter Christ was all over the radio in Houston, Santa Fe, and Las Vegas, andJack Cole and Jerry Paradis also contributed some radio in Houston. LEAP is certainly gaining interest among talk radio hosts, due in large part to great work by Whitney Garlinghouse, a volunteer of the highest regard who pursues the producers of these shows and doggedly gets LEAP speakers on the air. With Norm Stamper now a guest columnist on "The Huffington Post", which is read by media around the world, we're getting numerous Stamper interview requests - at least 8 interviews in July alone! Norm also appeared in The Economist, the Washington Post, NYTimes.com, and CBSNews.com (with fellow LEAP speaker Carol Ruth Silver, former director of prison legal services for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department). This month we made presentations in fourteen states, two countries and were featured in at least four national stories including the Associated Press. Want to make a difference? Help book these presentations or support, financially, our efforts to do this. Contact Shaleen Title, speakers bureau director, to participate in this vital effort to book presentations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ready to do more? Want to help LEAP while having fun? Join the LEAP Rapid Response Team to help shape the conversation around the world. It is easy, quick and can be done from home. Learn More Harm Reduction and the War on Drugs A report released on September 15, 2008 by U.N. special envoy on extra-judicial killings, Philip Alston, shows that Brazilian police carried out a significant proportion of the 48,000 murders that swept Brazil in 2007. According to the report, police murder three people a day on average in Rio de Janeiro, making them responsible for one in five killings in the city, which is plagued by drug-gang violence and roving militias of off-duty police. I live in Rio de Janeiro, and I worked here as a judge for almost twenty years. I can say that unfortunately these tragic data are not something exceptional that happened only in 2007. In fact, at least in the last ten years, 20% of all murders in Rio de Janeiro have been summary executions that happen during police operations against drug dealers in the "favelas". This is Brazil's own war on drugs… To continue reading Maria Lucia Karam's blog, please click here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Police Officer Supports Drug Legalization Darcey McLaughlin made a strong argument in favour of legalizing marijuana in his July 1 column, but he didn't go far enough. I'm a Canadian police officer who supports gradually legalizing and regulating all drugs. This includes marijuana as well as ecstasy, heroin and other substances. The argument in favour of legalizing these drugs is not that they are beneficial or fun, but rather that drugs are so dangerous they need to be regulated and controlled by the government. Under prohibition the government has no control. It is the drug dealer who chooses price, purity, cutting agents as well as business location and operating hours. And these dealers certainly are not asking minors for ID, nor are they encouraging their customers to get addiction treatment. As a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, I recognize that Canadian drug laws consume enormous police resources while paying few, if any, dividends… To continue reading David Bratzer's letter to the Miramichi Leader, please click here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A special thanks to LEAP volunteer Bill Dake, organizer of the annual Freedom Road 5k and Jefferson Mile to benefit Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Held on July 4 in San Francisco, 2009 marked the race's third year, and it was so well-organized and well-attended that it brought in $850 for LEAP. Bill is an excellent example of how valuable the contributions of our volunteers are. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All of this work happens because of generous donations from our supporters. Your gift to LEAP is tax-deductible. Donate now to show your commitment to ending the war on drugs. 121 Mystic Ave. Suites 8&9 Medford, MA 01255 (781) 393-6985 info@leap.cc Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an ever-expanding group of criminal justice professionals and civilian supporters calling for an end to the war on drugs. Trained criminal justice professionals are available to speak to your club or association about their experiences in the drug war and the need to create drug policies that stand the test of reason. Invite a speaker to your town today. You received this e-mail because you are a supporter of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. We need help growing our all-encompassing movement of citizens who want to end the failed "war on drugs," so please invite your family and friends to learn about LEAP. Click here if you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us.