This is Nimbin’s 34th annual MardiGrass on the first weekend in May, a big community effort for the one pub village that has its own political party and members of parliament, it feels so strongly about the drug war. Medical cannabis may be legal with a doctor’s script now but we are still not allowed to drive while using it, nor are we allowed to grow our own plants. Opportunistic business has taken control of cannabis’s popularity now doctors have finally admitted it does have medical uses. They insist we only use their mostly imported hydroponic indoor irradiated weed, now even saying home grown is dangerous. Shame on them and those refusing to educate themselves and change their mind. Every inquiry, every report, every expert says drug use should be treated as a health issue and the war is doing more harm than good.
If you join us over the weekend we believe in having fun while we protest so feel free to dress up. There are six, or even more venues jam-packed with speakers on not just weed but other psychedelic plants, interspersed with musicians, comedians, poets and performers, all inspired by nature’s best and safest medicine. Tickets and the program are at nimbinmardigrass.com
END THE WAR. THE LAW IS THE REAL CRIME.
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