{"id":2896,"date":"2025-04-12T21:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimbinmardigrass.com\/2025\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2896"},"modified":"2025-04-13T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T05:04:26","slug":"cannabis-laws-and-legal-advice-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/nimbinmardigrass.com\/2025\/event\/cannabis-laws-and-legal-advice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Laws and Legal Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2802 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nimbinmardigrass.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Steve-Bolt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"173\" \/>Speaker: Steve Bolt<\/h3>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio<\/strong>: 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 <em>Rough Deal<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall Garden Tent, Plantem Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[17,24,30,14],"class_list":["post-2896","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-17","tribe_events_cat-sunday","tribe_events_cat-educate","tribe_events_cat-hemposium","cat_2025","cat_sunday","cat_educate","cat_hemposium"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cannabis Laws and Legal Advice - Nimbin MardiGrass 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nimbinmardigrass.com\/2025\/event\/cannabis-laws-and-legal-advice-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cannabis Laws and Legal Advice - 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