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Next Nimbin Medican Workshop 5 August 2017
Next Medican Workshop Saturday August 5 at the Bush Theatre in Nimbin. 11 am – 4.20pm.
Speakers include Carol Ireland (CEO Epilepsy Australia); Dr Deb Waldren; Zane Archer; Andrew Kavasilas; Michael Balderstone.
For more information or if you wish to talk and share your experience with medical cannabis please get in touch with the HEMP Embassy….phone 0266891842 or email head@hempembassy.net
Australia’s Failed Drugs Policy [Sponsored by The Kurilpa Citizen & the Qld Council for Civil Liberties]
7pm Wednesday 14 June, Parliament House [NEW VENUE!!], Brisbane ~ Speakers: Mick Palmer [Former Commissioner, Australian Federal Police], Keith Hamburger [Former D-G, Qld Corrective Services], Desmond Manderson [ANU]
“What we now have is badly broken, ineffective and even counterproductive to the harm minimisation aims of Australia’s national illicit drugs policy,” said Mr Palmer. “We must be courageous enough to consider a new and different approach.” On June 14, the Kurilpa Citizen and the Qld Council for Civil Liberties sponsor a discussion on solutions to Australia’s failed drugs policy at Parliament House [NB new venue] by Mick Palmer, Keith Hamburger and Desmond Manderson.
Hemp, Health & Innovation Expo & Symposium 2017
The Hemp, Health & Innovation Expo Sydney 2017 is taking place at the award winning Rose Hill Gardens, Exhibition Centre. Held over 2 days, May 27th and 28th 2017, this event will have something for everyone. Come and look, feel, taste, and experience the excitement of a large number of exhibitors, showcasing everything from Hemp fibres, clothing, bedding, beauty and health products, medicinal hemp products, building materials, hydroponic equipment and supplies for industry and home hobbyists alike, innovative products and so much more. Gain valuable information and awareness of the amazing benefits the Hemp plant has to offer now and into the future. Learn how to grow your own produce, even where space is limited, fresh and free of chemicals. Discover new and innovative products.
Saturday 27 May – 9.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 28 May – 9.30am – 3.30pm
HHI Expo & Medicinal Cannabis Symposium Planting seeds & growing minds!
MardiGrass 2017
25th NIMBIN MARDIGRASS CANNABIS LAW REFORM RALLY
Friday 5 May – Sunday 7 May 2017
Nimbin, NSW
Our Mission: To bring about change by the most entertaining means possible.
Next MEDICAN Workshop Easter Saturday 15 April 2017
Speakers include Dr Deb Waldron on healing with medical cannabis, lawyer Steve Bolt on legal advice, Radic Al on making the medicine, Zane Archer on healing with nutrition and therapy as well as cannabis, Andrew Kavasilas on the latest from the government on regulating supply (don’t hold your breath), Michael Balderstone and Miss Guidance on their recent tour of North American legal cannabis dispensaries, and more to come. Top venue and top food from Phoenix Rising Cafe beside Mulgum creek on the northern edge of the village. Enquiries call the HEMP Embassy 66891842
Enough is Enough Rallies
Canberra 10am Tues 7 February Parliament House
Brisbane 9am Tues 14 February Parliament House
Perth 10am Thurs 16 February Supreme Court Gardens
Sydney 8am Tuesday 21 February at Parliament House
Melbourne 9am Tues 21 February Parliament of Victoria
Adelaide 11am Saturday 4 March at River Torrens
Please check Gail Hester’s list of events on facebook for changes and further information on each Enough is Enough Rally. They have been organised following the January raid on Jenny Hallam in SA and give protestors an opportunity to express their feelings about prohibition and show support for compassionate healers like Jenny who have been raided and their supplies of medicine confiscated. [Read More . . .]
Hemp Farming Open Education Day
When: Friday 17th February
10 am to 4pm.
Where: Cecil St Nimbin
Follow Balloons.
Why: To educate and promote Industrial, Medical and Food products grown from HEMP and other useful plants. If it’s mined and made from Fossil Fuels it can be grown by Farmers and made from HEMP!
For further information contact Wadzy
Ph: 0407 895 569. E: wadzywell@gmail.com
Next MEDICAN Workshop Saturday 21 January 2017
Saturday January 21st 2017
11am – 4.20pm in the Nimbin Town Hall.
The Medican workshops are proudly hosted by the Nimbin HEMP Embassy. Entry by donation. FREE to those who can’t afford it.
Nimbin Plans New Years Day Protest
Cannabis users in Nimbin plan on protesting the harassment their village is experiencing. Starting on the first day of the year, this Sunday, New Years day . . . [Read More]
Protest “Operation Cuppa”
Protest outside Lismore Court house from 9 am Tuesday December 6th to support those caught up in the net of “Operation Cuppa” which has impacted seriously on our tiny village with over thirty people busted so far.
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 257
2017 UIC Medicinal Cannabis Symposium [United in Compassion] 23, 24, 25 JUNE 2017 • MELBOURNE, VICTORIA: The program will cover how clinicians can develop a Cannabis treatment plan, clinical applications and other considerations, application in Palliative care and rehabilitation, The ECS, Debunking myths, PTSD, Cancer, Epilepsy and also will tackle the complex social and ethical […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 256
The 1st Australian Medicinal Cannabis Course [Australian Medical Cannabis Observatory] A 1 Day Course on 22 June to be offered as a Workshop on behalf of The UIC Medicinal Cannabis Symposium 2017 – Australia’s first medicinal cannabis course, designed for health care practitioners, by health care practitioners. 2017 UIC Medicinal Cannabis Symposium [United in Compassion] […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 255
Australia’s Failed Drugs Policy [Sponsored by The Kurilpa Citizen & the Qld Council for Civil Liberties] 7pm Wednesday 14 June, Parliament House [NEW VENUE!!], Brisbane ~ Speakers: Mick Palmer [Former Commissioner, Australian Federal Police], Keith Hamburger [Former D-G, Qld Corrective Services], Desmond Manderson [ANU] “What we now have is badly broken, ineffective and even counterproductive […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 254
An entire state’s doctors have shunned medical cannabis [Australian Doctor] None of WA’s 10,679 doctors have applied to prescribe medical cannabis since it was legalised in November. According to the AMA WA, the lack of interest is because doctors do not believe there is evidence to prescribe medical cannabis for anything other than in paediatric […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 253
Hemp, Health & Innovation Expo & SYMPOSIUM 2017 [HHI] The Hemp, Health & Innovation Expo Sydney 2017 is taking place at the award winning Rose Hill Gardens, Exhibition Centre. Held over 2 days, May 27th and 28th 2017, this event will have something for everyone. Come and look, feel, taste, and experience the excitement of […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 252
Hemp, Health & Innovation Expo & Symposium 2017 The Hemp, Health & Innovation Expo Sydney 2017 is taking place at the award winning Rose Hill Gardens, Exhibition Centre. Held over 2 days, May 27th and 28th 2017, this event will have something for everyone. Come and look, feel, taste, and experience the excitement of a […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issues 250-51
There’s a ‘buzz’ in Nimbin as MardiGrass turns 25 [The Northern Star] Nimbin had a “buzz” as an estimated 10,000 people poured into the town for the annual MardiGrass which sees tourists and locals alike protest for drug law reform. Hemp Embassy president Michael Balderstone said the Saturday had seen a huge crowd but there […]
MARDIGRASS BEGINS NEXT MONDAY WITH MAYDAY MARCH
NIMBIN’S 25TH MARDIGRASS MAY 5, 6, 7 2017 The tiny one pub village of Nimbin is gearing up for it’s 25th annual MardiGrass on the May 5, 6, 7 weekend. Australia’s biggest gathering of Cannabis users protesting for the re-legalisation of their herbal medicine is expected to be especially passionate this year. “Australia’s Cannabis users […]
EMBASSY HEADLINES Issue 249 April 28 2017
Nimbin ‘fires up’ over MardiGrass [Lismore Echo] After 25 years Nimbin is ‘fired up’ for its next MardiGrass on May 5-7, which will be themed Overgrow the Government. Hemp Embassy president Michael Balderstone said the town was “confused and frustrated” after watching a selection of the town’s youth rounded up and banned from the town […]
EMBASSY Headlines Issue 248
Nimbin MardiGrass 5-7 May 2017 [Hemp Embassy] The Nimbin MardiGrass is an annual rally & celebration in the tiny village of Nimbin in northern NSW, Australia. Beginning in 1993, MardiGrass is held to protest the drug laws, educate people on the various uses of cannabis (medicinal, industrial, recreational & spiritual) and to celebrate the culture that has […]