AUSTRALIA & NZ Hemp food legal from Sunday [SBS] A great source of protein with a distinctly nutty flavour, hemp, derived from the same species as cannabis, will be legalised for Australian consumption from Sunday, November 12. That means food made with hemp products can be legally sold as food; there’s even a hemp festival, […]
Nimbin Medican Workshops on YouTube
Speaker presentations from the numerous Nimbin Medican Workshop are now online. Big thanks to Disco Sista for documenting the many medican workshops that the Embassy has hosted in Nimbin over the past 5 years. If you’ve missed these amazing gatherings, then you can still watch the speakers online. Click on this link to head to […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 277
Next Nimbin Medical Cannabis Workshop Saturday November 11 2017 [Nimbin Hemp Embassy] Another big crowd is expected for the Nimbin HEMP Embassy’s next MEDICAN Workshop on Saturday November 11, from 11 am by the river at the Bush Theatre in the old Nimbin butter factory. “These gatherings are important and mostly about education”, says Embassy […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 276
Decriminalising drugs ‘could be the answer’: former top cop [Perth Now] Former police commissioner Karl O’Callaghan says decriminalisation of small quantities of certain illicit substances could be the answer to WA’s drug problem. Call for better access to medicinal cannabis [ABC] Medicinal cannabis advocates say terminally ill people are suffering unnecessarily, because of barriers in […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 275
Earth Expo [28-29 October @ Albert Hall Launceston, TAS] Renewable energy and hemp have many synergies. Not the least of which is that they’re both 100% natural and part of the journey to building a sustainable Tasmania. Introducing: Earth Expo 2017: Tasmania’s own HUGE two-day celebration of everything EARTH. It’s all in the name: Energy – Alternatives – Renewables […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 273-4
Next Nimbin Medical Cannabis Workshop Saturday November 11 2017 [Nimbin Hemp Embassy] Another big crowd is expected for the Nimbin HEMP Embassy’s next MEDICAN Workshop on Saturday November 11, from 11 am by the river at the Bush Theatre in the old Nimbin butter factory. “These gatherings are important and mostly about education”, says Embassy […]
Next Nimbin Medical Cannabis Workshop Saturday November 11 2017
Another big crowd is expected for the Nimbin HEMP Embassy’s next MEDICAN Workshop on Saturday November 11, from 11 am by the river at the Bush Theatre in the old Nimbin butter factory. “These gatherings are important and mostly about education”, says Embassy president Michael Balderstone. “The workshop is a good opportunity to ask questions […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 272
Medical cannabis processing plant proposal welcomed by Richmond Valley Council [ABC] A Canadian company wants to build the biggest medical cannabis processing plant in the southern hemisphere at Casino, in northern New South Wales. PUF Ventures Inc has announced a strategic partnership with the Richmond Valley Council to construct a 9.3-hectare greenhouse operation. When operating […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 271
Tony Rossi: What restrictions should be placed on medical cannabis? [The Advertiser] I think the community is ready to accept the use of medicinal cannabis in a regulated regime which does not put members of the public at risk. That would involve appropriate regulations to control the type of cannabis permitted for medicinal purposes and […]
Embassy HEADLINES Issue 270
Logan welfare drug-testing trial based on ‘flimsy statistics’ [SBS] The proposed ‘world first’ welfare drug-testing trial will not work and is not justified, say Logan City mayor and community workers. Legislation for the $10 million trial is due to go before the Senate shortly but is opposed by Labor and the Greens, and will need […]