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HEMP Embassy Hosts a Medical Cannabis Weekend January 18/19 2020

HEMP EMBASSY HOSTS A MEDICAL CANNABIS WEEKEND OCTOBER 26/27

HEMP EMBASSY MEDIA RELEASE October 11 2019 Medican time again October 26/27 Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy is hosting another of its popular Medican weekends on October 26/27. There’s a full program lined up says Nimbin HEMP Embassy President Michael Balderstone. “And as a special treat the new movie Green Light about a couple of […]
MardiGrass Organizing Body AGM 2019
IT’S TIME AGAIN FOR THE MardiGrass Organizing Body’s ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Time: 12pm Date: Saturday 16 November 2019 Location: Nimbin Hemp Embassy, 51 Cullen Street All members are invited to attend the annual general meeting at 11am on Saturday 16 November 2019 at the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, 51 Cullen Street. Nominations for an elected position […]
Nimbin Hemp Inc AGM 2019
IT’S TIME AGAIN FOR THE Nimbin Hemp Embassy’s ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Time: 11am Date: Saturday 16 November 2019 Location: Nimbin Hemp Embassy, 51 Cullen Street All members are invited to attend the annual general meeting at 11am on Saturday 16 November 2019 at the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, 51 Cullen Street. Nominations for an elected position […]
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 […]

Senate Inquiry into Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia
I would like to encourage The Hemp Embassy and your networks to consider writing a submission to the Senate Inquiry into barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia. This inquiry is the chance for organisations and for all individual medical cannabis users to have input into the failures of the current regulatory framework. […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 384

AUSTRALIA Senate Inquiry into Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia [United in Compassion] I would like to encourage The Hemp Embassy and your networks to consider writing a submission to the Senate Inquiry into barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia. This inquiry is the chance for organisations and […]
Cannabis Patient persecution must stop! [MCUA]
Medical Cannabis Users’ Association PRESS RELEASE: Calling for a moratorium on arrests. Cannabis Patient persecution must stop! Medical Cannabis Users Association of Australia (MCUA) President Deb Lynch and members of the advocacy group are up in arms following police raids carried out on 2 of their fellow activists in Queensland Wednesday 27 November. Early in […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 383

AUSTRALIA Australia launches inquiry into medical cannabis access [Marijuana Business Daily] A separate review of the medical cannabis industry was recently completed, and it included recommendations to improve the framework governing Australia’s medical cannabis sector. Those recommendations – made in a government-commissioned report written by John McMillan, law professor at Australian National University in Canberra […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 382

AUSTRALIA Spotlight to be placed on barriers to medicinal cannabis in Australia [SBS] Barriers confronting patients trying to access medicinal cannabis in Australia will be scrutinised in a Parliamentary inquiry into how the drug is regulated. The Greens said the medicinal cannabis system is “broken” and in urgent need of reform as their push for […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 381

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND ‘Motivated by a genuine compassion’: South Australian cannabis supplier spared conviction [The Sydney Morning Herald] An Adelaide woman spared a conviction after she supplied medicinal cannabis to people suffering from chronic pain says her case highlights the need for law reform. Cannabis oil advocate Jenny Hallam spared conviction for supplying medicinal […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 380

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Petition: URGENT REVIEW of the medical cannabis delivery system model [MCUA] Take the necessary steps to initiate an Independent Inquiry by the Australian Advisory Council on the Medicinal Use of Cannabis (AACMC) to review the current delivery system with the view creating a fairer, more affordable delivery model in consultation with […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 379

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND A Bill to allow medicinal cannabis patients to drive [Fiona Patten MP] Last week in Parliament I presented a Bill to amend our road laws, so that medicinal cannabis is treated the same as every other prescription medication. No one is permitted to drive while impaired, or drive under the influence […]
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE: Dr Andrew Katelaris
On Friday 1st November at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Brisbane the court will hear an appeal by Mr Alex Dimitropoulos against his conviction in the district court for the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes. In NSW a defence of medical necessity is available, which allows for a law to be broken if […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 378

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Medical Cannabis Weekend October 26/27 [Nimbin Hemp Embassy] There’s a full program lined up says Nimbin HEMP Embassy President Michael Balderstone. “And as a special treat the new movie Green Light about a couple of local intrepid medical cannabis providers will be shown on the Saturday evening, with at least one […]