Cannabis Law and Politics

Spain recently liberalised its Cannabis laws – Spain is also currently undergoing a tourism revolution! Why not in Queensland? “Legal Cannabis use will supercharge the Queensland tourism industry. Americans and Europeans will flock to Queensland once again and we will see a boom like we haven’t seen since the fifties.” http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/votesign3.jpg “It is essential that our Federal Government in Australia gets off its butt and does something about our crazy 20th Century laws. Many places we compete with have already given up with all this stupid Cannabis prohibition nonsense, and Queensland has to follow suit – or we will …

The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party is launching its National Election Campaign in Sydney on Monday at 1pm outside NSW Police Commissioner Scipione’s Office at 201 Elizabeth St. HEMP President Michael Balderstone believes the Police Commissioners office is a perfect location for a HEMP Party launch. “The Police are always seen as the experts when it comes to Cannabis in Australia, they get the final say. If the Police don’t approve of a change you can bet it won’t happen when it comes to drug laws. They even blocked hemp seed becoming legal in Australia despite everyone else saying lets do it.” “When it comes to proposing laws that are just and non-discrimi…

http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/elephant-room.jpg The HEMP Party of Australia fully supports the important and timely initiative announced today by the Greens calling for a Federal Drug Summit. “It’s a really smart way to address this particularly big elephant in the room,” says HEMP President Michael Balderstone. “The ‘war on drugs’ really has to be on the Election agenda and discussion about a ‘drug summit’ might be a way to achieve this without sparking the usual law and order auction. Who could possibly argue against the idea of getting all the experts together to consider how we are going to rectify the biggest social disaster of our time,…

http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/vote1hemp-sq.jpg The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party is twenty years old but the recent online rebirth of the Party has seen a big increase in interest, membership, and motivation to get Cannabis law reform on the political agenda again. “If Gough Whitlam had lasted a little longer as PM we could have raised our families in a climate without prejudice,” says Michael Balderstone, the Party President. “I was reminded of that at our big pre-election and strategy meeting of candidates last Sunday in Nimbin.” “Campaign Director and motivator Jim Moylan and his online team has the HEMP Party registered in eac…

http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/party-hemp.jpg This weekend Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party members and candidates from across Australia will gather to meet each other and make plans for the upcoming election. On Saturday HEMP Party National Campaign Director, Jim Moylan, will present the 13th HEMP Activism & Police Wrangling Workshop in Mingle Park (behind the Museum) in Nimbin from 2pm-4.20pm. “Police Wrangling” has been presented to audiences in Adelaide, Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Hobart, Launceston, Blacktown, Katoomba, Perth, Fremantle, Cairns, Townsville and now comes to Nimbin – the spiritual and symbolic home of the C…

http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hempwestaus.jpg HEMP Party Happenings - July 25, 2013 An irregular Newsletter from James Moylan – National Campaign Director of the HEMP Party, Australia. NOW WITH A STATE BRANCH IN EVERY AUSTRALIAN STATE! Hello HEMPsters, As of the 20th of July at 6.33 pm - with the establishment of a Western Australian Branch of HEMP - we are now a fully Federal Party with a State Branch in every State of Australia. I would like to say a big thank you to all of the many HEMPsters all around our wide brown land who have been working so hard, for so long, to bring about this momentous declaration! I would like to publicly thank …

HEMP Party in Sydney this weekend measuring the zinc in the soil The Australian HEMP Party’s Campaign manager Jim Moylan is in Sydney this weekend doing a couple more of his notorious Police wrangling workshops where he teaches pot smokers how to minimise trouble with the law. http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hemp-badge-1.jpgPresident Michael Balderstone says he’s very grateful Jim has the time, enthusiasm and energy to grow the HEMP Party into a credible political organisation. The Party has many new members and branches in all States now, bar WA, which is expected to happen next week when Jim flies west. HEMP is confident it will run Senate C…

http://australianhempparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tas-leaf.jpg The National Campaign Director for the HEMP Party, James Moylan, is headed to Tasmania today to host two more of the controversial “HEMP Activism & Police Wrangling” workshops which have attracted interest and created controversy. The Hobart and Launceston events are the 5th and 6th in a series of workshops which are being held in capital cities and major provincial centres ahead of the Election Campaign. “People are hungry to know their rights. Illegal Cannabis use is simply a reality in our society, and illegal Cannabis users need to know how to stay legally healthy,” said Mr Moylan. In a meeti…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltnK57DIces#t=280s Federally, medical cannabis may not be coming any time soon. He basically sounds like Mr Mackey from Southpark. "Drugs are bad, mkaye"

'...don't winge about the cannabis laws if you wont fight to change them.... MongyMan and Me too' I agree with the above.

Greetings friends! In case you hadn't heard already, Drug Law Reform Australia (druglawreform.com.au) plans to stand at the Federal Election in September, and be the voice for the country in changing drug laws, and giving the choice and liberty back to the people. The two main parties see drug law reform as a minor issue, even though it is debiliating to our health, justice, and social systems. Our prisons are spilling over with non-violent drug offenders, and massive amounts of Police resources are tied up in victimless drug crimes. Drug users are treated as criminals, and 'rehabilitated' using outdated moral and religious methods. It's time Australia took back it'…