Australasia

Bushboy

karlis — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700

I?m an Australian who has been growing for 10 years, and these photographs show what I?ve established in the last two years. What you see in these outstanding photographs are plants about 11 weeks old.

43-year-old Woman Faces Death for Personal Marijuana

karlis — Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Barbara Higgis and her husband in courtIndonesia ? The outfit is a familiar one for an Australian female facing drugs charges in Indonesia. But Barbara Kathleen Higgs' scarf was not in aid of a claimed conversion, or return, to Islam, or even an affinity with the religion.

South Australia To Ban Hydroponic Gardening Equipment

karlis — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Hydroponic systems grow legal plants tooThe Official announcement from Premier Rick Rann of the South Australia Government: In a second term of Government, we will make it an offence to have hydroponic equipment without a lawful excuse. New legislation will require hydroponic-equipment retailers to maintain a record of sales.

Australia: Cannabis Prohibitionists Gone Mad

karlis — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Reefer Madness returnsCourts must impose tougher sentences for cannabis-related crimes because of the damage it does to the mental health of marijuana smokers, South Australia's Director of Public Prosecutions has demanded.
From The Australian

Summer travel ganja guide

karlis — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

European Dreaming
The unified Europe is good for pot travelers because the Union has eliminated passport controls and formal airport border crossings between most countries. Many cannatourists begin their European vacations in Holland, procure cannabis, and then travel to other European destinations.

Superbly amusing herbal music

karlis — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Herb Superb, the Australian pot-loving songwriter, adds a healthy dose of humor to his music. Doing so, he's won weedy fans around the world and in his native homeland.
"This is the funniest stuff we've ever heard" said Michael Balderstone, spokes-person for the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, of Herb's music.

The passion of Corby

karlis — Mon, 30 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Schapelle Corby: languishing in an Indonesian prison over potSchapelle Corby, 27, is a telegenic symbol of the global drug war's ultimate goal: to kill people who use plant drugs, and to kill their plants.

Death for pot

karlis — Mon, 16 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Somewhere in Bali a young Australian woman sits alone in a cold, dark cell, awaiting a decision on her execution.
27-year-old Schapelle Leigh Corby has been charged with smuggling marijuana into the Indonesian island of Bali, and now Indonesian authorities wish to see her murdered, shot to death by a firing squad of 12 men. Corby's life and the lives of those who love her have become a living nightmare.

Nimbin MardiGrass 2005

karlis — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The Nimbin Hemp Embassy organisers of the annual MardiGrass Cannabis Law Reform weekend say it was probably the biggest crowd ever though nobody was counting! "The rubbish skips were all full by Sunday morning which has never happened before and that's a fair indication."

Death for pot in Indonesia

karlis — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Schapelle Leigh Corby awaits decision on executionSomewhere in Bali a young Australian woman sits alone in a cold, dark cell, awaiting a decision on her execution.

Marching for freedom

karlis — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Leaf lovers in LondonThe sixth annual Million Marijuana March was a great success. On May 1, 2004, activists around the globe held marches, rallies, parties, concerts, and festivals raging against prohibition and calling for legalization.

The great global ganja march

karlis — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Colorful people celebrating their freedom at the Vancouver rally.On May 3, 2003, the global community of pot-people came together for the fifth annual Million Marijuana March. Around the world, ganja-lovers marched against drug war atrocities, protested to end prohibition, and toked to demonstrate their freedoms.

Thailand's anti-drug death squads

karlis — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Thai police officer: ready to kill all druggies.On April 30, Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed victory in his three month "all-out campaign against drug trafficking." The campaign included over 17,000 arrests and the deaths of 2,274 people, most killed in "extrajudicial executions."

Censorship in New Zealand

karlis — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

On February 1, 2002, at 6:30am, five New Zealand Customs officers executed a search warrant at the home of John and Daniela Setter.

Rasta MP gets narked

karlis — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Nandor TanczosNew Zealand's Rastafarian Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos does not seek the spotlight, but it finds him anyway. Recently one of his parliamentary colleagues tried to have him arrested because he admits to using cannabis.

NZ pot reform gets shafted

karlis — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

New Zealand's recent federal election produced bad results for the Kiwi cannabis culture. The governing Labour party was re-elected, forming a coalition government with United Future, a born-again Christian party. A key point in the coalition agreement was continued repression of marijuana users.

Mardi Grass madness

karlis — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800

It has been called a "hippie haven," "doper's paradise," and "a flawed experiment in alternative living."
Australian governments send police to invade it.

Social scientists and social workers study it, trying to penetrate its convoluted counterculture core.

Grow Australia!

karlis — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

What's the difference between a wombat and a wallaby?
According to KoalaMan, a 30-year-old former opal miner who has spent most of his adult life growing cannabis in rugged Australian backcountry, "The wombat is a tiny, furry bugger that digs massive burrows under your plants and eats their roots."

War Down Under

karlis — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Nimbin cops: harrassing the Hemp Embassy aggressively.There's a green ganjafied place in the Southern Hemisphere that Cannabis Culture has traveled to year after year, a place called Nimbin, where Aussies are smoking locally-grown Sativa instead of drinking beer.

Global ganja celebration

karlis — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0800

David Malmo Levine: rallying the masses at Vancouver`s rally.On May 4, almost 100,000 people in over 190 cities around the world took to the streets to protest for pot.

Censorship in New Zealand

karlis — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700

On February 1, 2002, at 6:30am, five New Zealand Customs officers executed a search warrant at the home of John and Daniela Setter.

Down under the influence

karlis — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800

As Barge, our CC photographer, lit the first solar bowl under the searing Aussie sun, my wife Donna, our Aussie driver James and myself were about to embark upon a journey of discovery that would cover thousands of kilometers, have us consume over 100 different kinds of pot and test the limits of an otherwise perfectly good Winnebago. Our purpose, if we needed more than that, was to eventually end up at the Mardi Grass Festival in Nimbin.

Decrim is dangerous

karlis — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0800

Jean Chr?tien(l) and Tony Blair: pulling one over on pot smokersIn Canada and the UK there has been much recent debate about the possibility of easing up on cannabis laws, especially those relating to personal possession.

Russia's pot revolution

karlis — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Until the 1970s, marijuana was not used much in Russia. Alcohol was Russia's national drug, and ganja was only used in the "wild" Asian republics. Average Russians considered ganja smoking as something alien and strange.

Nimbin Hemp Embassy raided

karlis — Mon, 05 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0800

On October 31, 2001, 28 police poured out of cars and vans and surrounded the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, closing it off to the public.
About two hours later they emerged, arresting one person, Dave Cannabis, and maybe they found a little pot. Shock, horror! Pot in the Nimbin Hemp Embassy!