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Time to do democracy differently?
It’s been a crash course in politics for me since a handful of MPs from the Legalise Cannabis party were suddenly elected a few years back. The old HEMP Party, Help End Marijuana Prohibition, was born out of sheer frustration at our views about the drug war not getting heard. At election time we at…
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RDT is a wicked weapon in the drug war
I have more contact with Legalise Cannabis’s NSW MP Jeremy Buckingham than any of our other elected politicians. Possibly because I’m in his state, but also he’s the most hippie of the four. He has a piece of paradise in the Bellingen valley and could easily be there picking oranges in his orchard and doing…
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RDT changes are imminent
Since the Legalise Cannabis Party got members of parliament elected, I have to say it’s been a crash course in political reality for me. It’s an incredibly conservative world we sent those MPs into – another planet almost for Jeremy Buckingham, compared to his piece of hippy paradise near Bellingen where he was living. His…
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Labour’s fracking plans
The Minns Labor Government pressed go on their plan to bring gas fracking back to NSW at the end of April, and to try and attract Santos and friends to the table. Labor decided to reduce the cost of gas exploration licences by 98% – another government hand out to the corporate fossil fuel industry.…
