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Nimbin HEMP Embassy
HEMP CALLS FOR ANOTHER DRUG SUMMIT IN SYDNEY.
“The illegal drug issue must be removed from the too hard basket.,” says Michael Balderstone, HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition) Party President, as he prepares to join Tony Bower and Mullaways Medical Cannabis Treaty convoy leaving Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy for Sydney next Sunday bound for Macquarie Street to deliver the treaty on Tuesday.
“It feels reminiscent of the Cannabus trip to Sydney for Bob Carr’s 1999 Drug Summit and that’s just what’s needed again,’ he said.“Lets hear from the experts, if you don’t believe the users.”
Mr Bower will be giving away his medical cannabis next Tuesday 23rd August from 11 am outside Parliament House in Sydney and already has many supporters and patients promising to be there. We have watched Tony help and heal people for years and we feel he’s a man of great integrity and deserves support.
We will ask the Premier to review the ‘drug war’ and place it on the political agenda again. It’s in the news every day but rarely questioned for effectiveness. Mark Standen and the London gang riots are both consequences of the dismally failing drug war.
Over two million Australians use cannabis regularly the statistics say. Over two million people criminalised for self medicating with a plant that humans have used for as long as history is recorded and with no deaths from its use.
People take drugs for basically one reason from what I can see, here on Nimbin’s main street most days. To alter their mind and change how they feel. To feel good, or at least feel better. For some, it is to feel less pain.
Up until the late 1900s there was little regulation of drug production and while there were effective medicines there were also dubious preparations, often containing narcotics, which could have unwanted consequences. It was decided to regulate drug production, and test medicines before they were released to the public.
There are still medicines with unwanted side effects that do not necessarily provide the designed treatment. Things did not change quite as much as expected. Along with that, we threw out a few babies with the bathwater, so to speak. Cannabis has useful properties, and can be an effective medicine for some conditions.
If we have to have a regulated pharmaceutical situation, let’s see some evidence based regulation that allows medical cannabis use, because there is nothing noble or ethically superior in causing unnecessary suffering. Rather than the current fobbing off any considerations on the matter, let’s look at this and find a sensible life enhancing solution.
For more info phone 02 66891842 or 66890326
www.hempembassy.net
www.mullawaysmedicalcannabis.com.au
“The illegal drug issue must be removed from the too hard basket.,” says Michael Balderstone, HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition) Party President, as he prepares to join Tony Bower and Mullaways Medical Cannabis Treaty convoy leaving Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy for Sydney next Sunday bound for Macquarie Street to deliver the treaty on Tuesday.
“It feels reminiscent of the Cannabus trip to Sydney for Bob Carr’s 1999 Drug Summit and that’s just what’s needed again,’ he said.“Lets hear from the experts, if you don’t believe the users.”
Mr Bower will be giving away his medical cannabis next Tuesday 23rd August from 11 am outside Parliament House in Sydney and already has many supporters and patients promising to be there. We have watched Tony help and heal people for years and we feel he’s a man of great integrity and deserves support.
We will ask the Premier to review the ‘drug war’ and place it on the political agenda again. It’s in the news every day but rarely questioned for effectiveness. Mark Standen and the London gang riots are both consequences of the dismally failing drug war.
Over two million Australians use cannabis regularly the statistics say. Over two million people criminalised for self medicating with a plant that humans have used for as long as history is recorded and with no deaths from its use.
People take drugs for basically one reason from what I can see, here on Nimbin’s main street most days. To alter their mind and change how they feel. To feel good, or at least feel better. For some, it is to feel less pain.
Up until the late 1900s there was little regulation of drug production and while there were effective medicines there were also dubious preparations, often containing narcotics, which could have unwanted consequences. It was decided to regulate drug production, and test medicines before they were released to the public.
There are still medicines with unwanted side effects that do not necessarily provide the designed treatment. Things did not change quite as much as expected. Along with that, we threw out a few babies with the bathwater, so to speak. Cannabis has useful properties, and can be an effective medicine for some conditions.
If we have to have a regulated pharmaceutical situation, let’s see some evidence based regulation that allows medical cannabis use, because there is nothing noble or ethically superior in causing unnecessary suffering. Rather than the current fobbing off any considerations on the matter, let’s look at this and find a sensible life enhancing solution.
For more info phone 02 66891842 or 66890326
www.hempembassy.net
www.mullawaysmedicalcannabis.com.au
17 August 2011 12:59
Nimbin HEMP Embassy
On the 23rd of August we will be going to NSW Parliament House to hand over our terms for a treaty on medical Cannabis.
A treaty will be drawn up and presented to the Secretary of Health as it is the Health Department that control the Growing and Possession of cannabis in NSW for medical purposes. We will be asking that person to discuss a treaty.
With the help and support of the Nimbin Hemp Embassy we will be asking everyone to come down and support this.
Bring a joint or we will be dispensing cannabis tincture free of charge to all who bring a letter from their doctor stating they have an illness cannabis is known to treat.
We will also be asking the NSW Health Minister to issue a Card protecting patients from harassment. This should have been done a long time ago in accordance with the TGA Special Access Scheme. If they are unwilling to provide this medicine they cannot stop you from providing your own. This is in Law.
If the Secretary of Health will not talk, or if for some reason they do not exist, as has been implied in some correspondence, then we will be going straight to the NSW High Court.
A letter of Notice has been sent to the NSW Health Department advising action will be taken on that day.
It is time to stand up and show we have the courage. Not only to help ourselves but to help others less fortunate. Lets help them have a quality of life they deserve.
Lets sit down and have a smoke or a cookie or even a home made tincture - whatever you like.
Lets sit down and actually talk about the end of the 100 year war.
Anthony D Bower
Director & Founder
Mullaways Medical Cannabis Pty Ltd
http://mullawaysmedicalcannabis.com.au
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The Nimbin HEMP Embassy will be sending a delegation to Sydney departing from the Embassy Sunday morning at 10am on August 21st to support the Mullaways Medical Cannabis protest.
Anyone interested in joining or supporting in any way the convoy to the Big Smoke please contact the Embassy.
We have known Tony for a long time and his extraordinary efforts to show how beneficial cannabis is as a medicine have left us all in his wake. We know dozens of people who have discovered tremendous pain relief through Tony's efforts and we will support him wherever possible.
As Tony says, it is against his culture to refuse to help someones suffering if he can. We feel the same.
Michael Balderstone HEMP President.
http://hempembassy.net
http://australianhempparty.com/
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Mullaways Convoy to present a Cannabis Treaty to NSW Parliament.
Find details of the convoy on the Mullaway web site;
http://mullawaysmedicalcannabis.com.au/convoy.html
And on FaceBook at; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212728862105805
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The Embassy delegates will leave Nimbin on Sunday 21st at 10.00am to arrive in Sydney before the 11.00am - 2.00pm meeting at State Parliament House in Macquarie Street on Tuesday 23rd.
A treaty will be drawn up and presented to the Secretary of Health as it is the Health Department that control the Growing and Possession of cannabis in NSW for medical purposes. We will be asking that person to discuss a treaty.
With the help and support of the Nimbin Hemp Embassy we will be asking everyone to come down and support this.
Bring a joint or we will be dispensing cannabis tincture free of charge to all who bring a letter from their doctor stating they have an illness cannabis is known to treat.
We will also be asking the NSW Health Minister to issue a Card protecting patients from harassment. This should have been done a long time ago in accordance with the TGA Special Access Scheme. If they are unwilling to provide this medicine they cannot stop you from providing your own. This is in Law.
If the Secretary of Health will not talk, or if for some reason they do not exist, as has been implied in some correspondence, then we will be going straight to the NSW High Court.
A letter of Notice has been sent to the NSW Health Department advising action will be taken on that day.
It is time to stand up and show we have the courage. Not only to help ourselves but to help others less fortunate. Lets help them have a quality of life they deserve.
Lets sit down and have a smoke or a cookie or even a home made tincture - whatever you like.
Lets sit down and actually talk about the end of the 100 year war.
Anthony D Bower
Director & Founder
Mullaways Medical Cannabis Pty Ltd
http://mullawaysmedicalcannabis.com.au
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The Nimbin HEMP Embassy will be sending a delegation to Sydney departing from the Embassy Sunday morning at 10am on August 21st to support the Mullaways Medical Cannabis protest.
Anyone interested in joining or supporting in any way the convoy to the Big Smoke please contact the Embassy.
We have known Tony for a long time and his extraordinary efforts to show how beneficial cannabis is as a medicine have left us all in his wake. We know dozens of people who have discovered tremendous pain relief through Tony's efforts and we will support him wherever possible.
As Tony says, it is against his culture to refuse to help someones suffering if he can. We feel the same.
Michael Balderstone HEMP President.
http://hempembassy.net
http://australianhempparty.com/
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Mullaways Convoy to present a Cannabis Treaty to NSW Parliament.
Find details of the convoy on the Mullaway web site;
http://mullawaysmedicalcannabis.com.au/convoy.html
And on FaceBook at; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212728862105805
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The Embassy delegates will leave Nimbin on Sunday 21st at 10.00am to arrive in Sydney before the 11.00am - 2.00pm meeting at State Parliament House in Macquarie Street on Tuesday 23rd.
6 August 2011 15:27