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Medical Cannabis supply shortage, harming patients

By |2021-01-07T06:31:53+11:00January 7, 2021|Categories: Cannabis, Media Releases|

Media Release  MCUA of Australia Inc   4/1/21 Where has all the flower gone? With over 80,000 approvals for medical cannabis and a flourishing cannabis industry,  patients all over Australia are missing out on their treatments because of lack of supply. And no one seems to care. Patient advocacy group Medical [...]

HEMP recommends Legalise Cannabis Queensland to voters

By |2020-10-29T06:43:27+11:00October 29, 2020|Categories: Cannabis, Media Releases|

MEDIA RELEASE Oct 28 2020...HEMP recommends Legalise Cannabis Queensland to voters for compassion & common-sense A Joint Press Release from Legalise Cannabis Queensland (LCQ) and Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP): two political parties speaking on behalf of the many thousands of people who are daily impacted by the brutal, irrational and unjust [...]

Dr Jiggens Democracy Sausage

By |2020-10-29T06:33:24+11:00October 29, 2020|Categories: Cannabis, Media Releases|

Campaign diary of the South Brisbane electorate 2020 from the outsider-insider view of a journalist running as an independent candidate. Dr John Jiggens  Two weeks ago I nominated as an independent candidate for the seat of South Brisbane in this year’s Queensland election. As a citizen journalist, the election provided [...]

How Much Would Queensland Benefit By Legalising Cannabis?

By |2020-10-29T06:21:13+11:00October 29, 2020|Categories: Cannabis, Media Releases|

HOW MUCH WOULD QUEENSLAND BENEFIT BY LEGALISING CANNABIS?  Dr John Jiggens  The legalisation of cannabis is happening world-wide! Canada legalised cannabis in 2018, while eleven US states have also legalised cannabis. In Australia, the ACT legalised cannabis this year. In the US in 2018, the fledging legal cannabis industry employed [...]

Submission to Victoria’s Cannabis Inquiry: August 2020

By |2020-09-03T00:44:49+10:00September 3, 2020|Categories: Cannabis, Media Releases|

Michael Balderstone's Submission to Victoria's Cannabis Inquiry Firstly, thank you for this inquiry. I believe it's much more important than most people realise. I have been embroiled in cannabis law reform for over thirty years, in fact it has almost taken over my life since I woke up to the massive [...]

Nimbin HEMP Embassy Opens Online Store

By |2020-08-27T09:04:17+10:00August 27, 2020|Categories: Cannabis, Media Releases|

Nimbin HEMP Embassy Opens Online Store Nimbin's HEMP Embassy has used the COVID lockdown time to create an online store. HEMP Embassy president Michael Balderstone says it was a group effort during the lockdown but is particularly grateful to Nimbin resident Dr Geoff Lynne who took on the job of [...]

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