Speaker: Steve Bolt
About: Legal advice including Roadside Drug Testing and Medicinal Cannabis. From strip searches at festivals and your friendly sniffers dogs, to medical cannabis being the only prescribed medicine which makes it illegal to drive, please come on a journey into many cruel and unusual laws running rampant in contemporary Oz.
Bio: Steve has been a practising solicitor since 1991, and is closely involved in the drug policy debate, particularly in regard to the regulation of medicinal cannabis. He worked for several years at Redfern Legal Centre. From 1996 to early 2004, he was the principal solicitor at the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre. Steve is the author of Rough Deal, a plain English book about the NSW drug laws. He is also the author of a number of other publications on drug laws and drug policy. He has been the unofficial lawyer for the Nimbin Hemp Embassy for the last twenty years.
