HEMP Embassy hosts High Tea for Peacebus
HEMP EMBASSY MEDIA RELEASE June 19 2019 The Nimbin HEMP Embassy will be hosting a High Tea for Peacebus 4.20 pm Friday 21 June 2019 at the Hemp Bar, Cullen Street, Nimbin The event will raise funds to keep Graeme Dunstan’s Peacebus rolling.See https://chuffed.org/project/keep-peacebus-rolling-on As the director of the 1973 Aquarius Festival, the event […]
NEXT MEDICAL CANNABIS WEEKEND WORKSHOP IN NIMBIN JUNE 22/23 now includes the movie “High as Mike” on Saturday night
HEMP EMBASSY MEDIA RELEASE June 17 2019 NEXT MEDICAL CANNABIS WEEKEND WORKSHOP IN NIMBIN JUNE 22/23 now includes the movie “High as Mike” on Saturday night. The acclaimed new movie about medical cannabis “High as Mike” will be shown on the Saturday evening June 22 of Nimbin’s next Medican weekend. The film starts […]
NEXT MEDICAL CANNABIS WEEKEND WORKSHOP IN NIMBIN JUNE 22/23
HEMP EMBASSY MEDIA RELEASE May 30 2019 Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy is gearing up for it’s next Medican Workshop to be held at the villages Bush Theatre over the weekend of June 22/23. This is a weekend about sharing information from healers and users and growers and makers of medical cannabis. Everyone is welcome, entry is […]
HEMP PARTY CAMPAIGN LAUNCH ON MONDAY IN LISMORE
MEDIA RELEASE FROM HELP END MARIJUANA PROHIBITION (HEMP) PARTY MAY 9 2019 The Nimbin based Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party will officially launch its Election campaign in Lismore on Monday at midday in front of local National party MP Kevin Hogans office in Lismore. The HEMP Party has senate candidates running in every state […]
May Day March 2019
MAYDAY MARCH for cannabis law reform Wednesday May 1 …at 1 pm from Lismore Court House to our local MP’s offices Nimbin’s MardiGrass organisers say they are ready for the big crowds expected to descend on the village this weekend. We start our annual protest tomorrow with our Mayday March from Lismore Court House to […]
WELCOME TO NIMBIN’S 27th MARDIGRASS
Nimbin is home of the Cannabis law reform protest and the gathering we call MardiGrass. This is the 27th year in a row that we’ve rallied to change these ugly, ridiculous, and extremely damaging and hurtful laws. Why should we be treated as criminals for using a plant that our ancestors have loved as a […]
Nimbin’s 420 Smoke-In!
Featuring the BIG Joint from 2pm ~ Music, hemp food and 4:20 Smoke In ~ Mingle Park Nimbin ~ 4:20pm April 20 2019 Nimbin April 20 Day invitation… words assembled by Luke Summ It is widely disputed who started FOUR20 world wide, some say it started as a time when many are finished work and […]
Meet Dr David Bearman, Cannabis Physician & Author from the USA
Meet Dr David Bearman, Cannabis Physician, Expert Witness & Author from the USA. Midday onwards Monday 25 March @ Nimbin Hemp Embassy. Book signing and Q&A. Nimbin Hemp Embassy51 Cullen StreetNimbin, NSW 2480 AustraliaTel: +612 6689 1842/0326hempembassy.netaccounts@hempembassy.netinfo@hempembassy.netOpen 7 Days
2019 UIC Australian Medicinal Cannabis Symposium
22-24 March 2019, Tweed Heads NSW Over 3 days hear from world experts as we grapple with the problems around patient access, guidelines and supply. Keynote Speakers Buy Tickets
MEDICAL CANNABIS WORKSHOP, NIMBIN JANUARY 19th & 20th 2019
The Nimbin Hemp Embassy hits the ground running in 2019 with another of their popular Medican Workshops on the weekend of January 19 and 20. Special Guest Leah Bisiani (MHlthSc/DipBus/RN1/Dementia Consultant/Learning & Advisory) will be a key speaker. Leah has 35 years experience within aged-dementia care establishing a highly skilled knowledge basis as a global […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 360
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND The NSW Cops Spent An Eye-Watering Amount Of Money Policing This Small Town Festival [Junkee] Every year, the northern NSW town of Nimbin hosts MardiGrass, an event that’s part festival, part protest, and 100 percent committed to all things weed. Naturally, a celebration of all that cannabis has to offer attracts a […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 359
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Medicinal cannabis trial begins for Australian veterans with PTSD [ABC] An Australian-first trial using medicinal cannabis to treat returned servicemen and women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been launched today that targets defence personnel who have not had a response to conventional treatments. The investigation, coordinated by Cannabis Access […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 358
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Australian lawyers call for overhaul of ‘unfair’ roadside drug testing [3AW] Greg Barns, spokeperson from the Australian Lawyers Alliance, told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell that current legislation punishes people whose driving is not affected by drug use. ‘Passive smoking’ defence clears woman of drug driving as research casts doubt on roadside testing […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 357
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Victorian parliament will investigate different approaches to cannabis – video [9 News] Fiona Patten MP refers cannabis inquiry to a parliamentary committee. ‘Passive smoking’ defence clears woman of drug driving as research casts doubt on roadside testing [ABC] The accuracy of drug driving tests has been called into question after a […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 356
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Drug driving tests are called into question [Daily Mail] Drug driving tests have been called into question after a driver taking a placebo tested positive to cannabis. University of Sydney researchers found roadside mobile saliva tests for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) were inaccurate more than 20 per cent of the time. In some […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 355
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Cannabis Prohibition has been a total failure [The HEMP Party] Weekend of fun for Mardi Grass cannabis law reform protesters [Echonet Daily] After a dramatic lead-up to the weekend’s annual Nimbin Mardi Grass involving an all day raid on the HEMP Embassy, celebrations went ahead with the usual joie de vivre. […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 354
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Nimbin Hemp Embassy is raided just one day before its annual Mardi Grass event celebrating cannabis [Daily Mail] The Hemp Embassy at Nimbin was swarmed with police on Thursday, just a day out from its ‘Mardi Grass’ celebration. About 20 officers and several sniffer dogs descended on the building with a search […]
LOOK FOR THE LEAF ON THE SENATE BALLOT PAPER VOTE 1 HEMP
MEDIA RELEASE FROM AUSTRALIAN HEMP PARTY LOOK FOR THE LEAF ON THE SENATE BALLOT PAPER VOTE 1 HEMP The HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition) Party has senate candidates in all six states and the NT for May 18 federal election. Medical Necessity Representing himself in court, NSW Senate candidate Dr Katelaris argued a defence of […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 353
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Opinion: Medicinal cannabis campaigner Lucy Haslam has some pretty strong opinions about the road she has been on for the past five years [Northern Daily Leader] For over half a decade I’ve seen, heard and been told things ‘off the record’ you would find hard to believe – and if this, […]
HEMP PARTY SENATE CANDIDATES IN ALL STATES AND NT
MEDIA RELEASE FROM AUSTRALIAN HEMP PARTY HEMP PARTY SENATE CANDIDATES IN ALL STATES AND NT The Australian HEMP (that’s Help End Marijuana Prohibition) Party will announce its candidates on Saturday at the 420 celebrations in Nimbin. “Aussies can safely vote for Cannabis law reform in the federal election,” says President and NSW Candidate Michael Balderstone. […]