Town Hall:
Chill Zone, Medical Cannabis meeting place, Movies, Music, Food, Peace & Quiet in the Garden. The MardiGrass Family Cafe in the Town Hall open all weekend serving healthy meals including popcorn with freshly pressed Tasmanian hempseed oil.
12:00 Midday * Legal Advice Session with Steve Bolt (Solicitor and author of a number of publications on drug laws and drug policy) and James Moylan. All students of law welcome to participate. Live theatre, we’ll show you how to get busted and how not to!
1:00 pm * Industrial Hemp Forum, – MC Bob Tissot – Speakers include Dr Keith Bolton, Klara Marosszeky, Paul Benhaim and Dr Andrew Katelaris plus some new hemp farmers from NSW. Including the Get Hemped Fashion Show with Judy Who and friends. If you are interested in being involved in the local hemp industry, come to the Hemp Forum and speak with hemp pioneers at MG10 including organic grower Kenrick Riley, first commercial license holder in NSW, and President of Northern Rivers Hemp; Klara Marosszeky, long-term licensee and establisher of the local hemp masonry industry; and Deborah Felton who is maintaining precious hemp varieties in the Northern Rivers Seedbank. Visit www.northernrivershemp.org for additional information and to register for membership.
2:00 pm till 5:00 pm * Hall Verandah and Garden * MULLAWAY MEDICAL CANNABIS MEETING where Tony Bower is compiling a register for his soon to be authorised medical cannabis clinic, the first in the country. MS, HIV, cancer and chronic pain sufferers are invited to be part of Australias first legal medical cannabis dispensary trial. Bring medical documentation to confirm your condition if you are a new applicant.
2:30 pm * Dispense With The Law* Beyond Prohibition Workshop – MC, Ray Thorpe, founder of Happy High Herbs. Special guests include Dr Bob Melamede from America and Professor Paul Wilson from Bond University, local activista Neil Pike, controversial Katelaris, legal eagle Steve Bolt, and long time local Dr Harry Freeman, plus card carrying medical cannabis patients from around the world.
4:20 pm * Kombi Konvoy turning up outside.
5:00 pm * Dr John Jiggens will be talking on “The three ages of Reefer Madness” at the Nimbin Mardi Grass on Saturday at 5pm in the Nimbin Town Hall.
Dr John Jiggens is a writer and journalist who has published several books including The killer cop and the murder of Donald Mackay and, with Jack Herer, the Australian version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes.
His Ph.D was ‘Marijuana Australiana: Cannabis Use, Popular Culture and the Americanisation of Drugs Policy in Australia 1938 – 1988′.
More info here
Launch of John’s movie on Donald McKay to follow in Birth and Beyond at 6.15 pm
6:00 pm * MC Nick the Hippy * Cooking with Cannabis, Vaporizer demonstration and other ways of getting Good Medicine into you without smoking.
7:00pm * Dinner with Dr Bob.
Dr. Melamede has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the City University of New York. He retired as Chairman of the Biology Department at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in 2005, where he continues to teach. Dr. Melamede is recognized as a leading authority on the therapeutic uses of cannabis, and has authored or co-authored dozens of papers on a wide variety of scientific subjects. Dr. Melamede also serves on the Advisory Board of The Journal of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine, and the Scientific Advisory Board Medical of the Marijuana Policy Advocacy Project, as well as the Scientific Advisory Board of Americans for Safe Access. He also served as a director of Newellink Inc, a Colorado-based company specializing in cancer research.
“In modern societies, age-related illnesses that are all inhibited by cannabis, are killing us. We can minimize this problem by consuming more of what has become an essential nutrient for humanity-cannabis.”
“Australia has it’s roots in the struggle for freedom, a perfect place to seed the cannabis revolution,” said Dr Bob.
http://www.cannabisscience.com/
If we get wet weather we will be moving the Harvest Ball from Peace Park to the Town Hall.
SUNDAY
May 2nd
Town Hall:
Chill Zone, Forums, Movies, Music, Food, with Peace & Quiet in the Garden at least. The MardiGrass Family Cafe in the Town Hall open all weekend serving healthy meals including popcorn with freshly pressed Tasmanian hempseed oil.
11:00 am * Legal Advice Session with Steve Bolt and James Moylan.
12:00 * Industrial Hemp Forum, – Speakers include Dr Keith Bolton, Klara Marosszeky, Paul Benhaim, Dr Andrew Katelaris and NSW hemp farmers. If you are interested in being involved in the local hemp industry, come to the Hemp Forum and speak with hemp pioneers at MG10 including organic grower Kenrick Riley, first commercial license holder in NSW, and President of Northern Rivers Hemp; Klara Marosszeky, long-term licensee and establisher of the local hemp masonry industry; and Deborah Felton who is maintaining precious hemp varieties in the Northern Rivers Seedbank. Visit www.northernrivershemp.org for additional information and to register for membership.
12:00 pm and 5:00 pm * MULLAWAY MEDICAL CANNABIS MEETING where Tony Bower is compiling a register for his soon to be authorised medical cannabis clinic, the first in the country. MS, HIV, cancer and chronic pain sufferers are invited to be part of Australias first legal medical cannabis dispensary trial.
1:00 pm till 2:00 pm * MardiGrass Beyond Prohibition Workshop – MC Ray Thorpe. Special guests include Dr Bob Melamede from America and Professor Paul Wilson from Bond University plus card carrying medical cannabis patients from around the world and local activista.
2:30 pm * The Rally is on.
5:00 pm * Joint Rolling Finals, followed by the Plantathlon Award for the best Hemp Olympix All-rounder, in memory of Chicken George, the recently passed Plantem.
6:00 pm * Cooking with Cannabis, Vaporizer demonstration and other ways of getting Good Medicine into you without smoking. * MC Nick the Hippy
7:00pm * Sunday Dinner with Dr Bob.
