This year is Nimbins 32nd annual MardiGrass and you’d reckon by now ‘weed’ be left alone.
The same helicopter raids, the disgusting, and completely unfair, saliva testing of drivers, and we’re still not allowed to grow our own plants. We can all access legal buds via a doctor, most of it imported from Canada, but we can’t grow our own. There’s something very wrong there.
At MardiGrass, organisers do their best to make it an enjoyable and fun protest – there is a lot of comedy, and good comedy, we need it in the face of so much nonsense. The Hemp Olympix committee has finally accepted ‘Correct Weight’ into their program as well as a new team event, the ‘Dealers Nightmare’, to join the ‘Joint Rolling’and ‘Bong Throw’.
On a more serious note, Dr Jeffrey Hergenrather is flying in from California for the weekend to share the latest from America where they have had legal mediweed for nearly 30 years. He was a cannabis doctor long before that.
Half a busload of Green and Legalise Cannabis members of parliament are speaking at the Hemposium in the Hall, all working for us and this plant, arguably the most useful in the creation. This year there is a tent dedicated to other entheogens like mushrooms, owing to the ongoing recognition of their importance.
The Kombi Konvoy wending its way from Byron, to arrive for the 4.20pm protest on the Saturday of the event, is a highlight as is the Big Rally and Parade on Sunday arvo. Dress up in green, paint a placard or whatever, and join everyone to protest this war which is filling our jails, breaking up families and traumatising lives.
It’s a war against ourselves! We all know drug use is really a health issue, but instead, we now have big businesses fighting over who gets the huge profits to be made from relieving our pain. We could be growing our own plants or getting a cooperative to grow it for us, instead of buying it from the chemist.
Remember cannabis is a plant that has never killed anyone and is nothing like the other illegal drugs which are all chemical or processed. It is the safest, most useful and best medicine in the plant world. The laws are the real crime.
MardiGrass is on the weekend of May 3, 4 and 5 in Nimbin.
For $150 you get three nights camping and entry into everything.
One-day entry is $30.
Check out the very full weekend program at nimbinmardigrass.com.
