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Cannabis, driving and a glimmer of light in law
We have finally got medicinal cannabis driving laws through Parliament – but importantly for anyone who uses cannabis and drives, even though the law has changed, the new scheme hasn’t started yet, and it’s not expected to until 2027. Until then the existing law still applies, and the presence of THC detected through roadside drug…
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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…
