Mardi Grass Mind Candy
Join
pragmatic visionaries and solipsistic psychonauts
at the 2013 Mardi Grass Mind Candy Community Forums, Workshops
and Talks all happening in the Nimbin Town Hall over the weekend.
Come debate, discuss & enjoy the occasional stoned
rave as well as share your ideas on the burning issues surrounding
our favourite plant ally.
Saturday 4 May 2013
12:30 �
2:30pm
Enlightened
Activism: How to be an effective
campaigner and activist for cannabis law reform? How to coordinate
plans among different drug law reform groups for future action?
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts [Author
The Activist�s Handbook]
Panelists: Bill Bush [Family & Friend for Drug Law
Reform] Steve Bolt [Solicitor] Cate Faehrmann
[Greens NSW MP] Deb Felton, John Jiggens [Writer & Journalist] Jim Moylan [Australian HEMP
Party] Fiona Patten [Australian Sex Party] Matt Riley [HEMP
Party Victoria] Alex Wodak [Australia21/Australian
Drug Law Reform Foundation]
A host of organizations
and individuals have been arguing for an end to prohibition,
or other changes to drug policy, some for decades. Besides the
focused Australian HEMP party, other parties serious about drug
law reform include the Greens, the Australian Sex Party and
Pirate Party Australia, as well as a new single-issue party
that has emerged in 2013, Drug Law Reform Australia. This forum
will cover experiences and approaches to drug law reform, with
discussions towards resolutions or ideas for coordinating our
energy and resources for future action.
2:30 � 4pm
Imagining Nimbin after Weed is Legal! Mind Candy Community Brainstorm
With: Brooke Bell, Bill Bush [Family
& Friend for Drug Law Reform] Miss Guidance [Entheogenesis
Australis/HEMP Party NSW] Sandra Heilpern,
Mark Heinrich [Cannabis Science Australia], Ivan, Erik van Keulen
[@EGApolicy] Neil Pike [Pagan Love
Cult]
It�s 2023 in our magnificent Land
of Oz and cannabis in all its delightful forms is legal� for
recreation, medicine, industry and food � and undoubtedly many
other uses as well. Come tap your ganja
green slippers and time travel into the great-unknown future
to explore via a big fun open discussion what life would be like
after weed is legal.
6 � 7pm
Cannabis
as an Entheogen
Speakers: Annie, Neil Pike [Pagan
Love Cult] Dr Des Tramacchi [Psychedelic
Research in Science & Medicine]
Psychoactive plants and
substances that promote a sense of the spiritual element of
human life are known as entheogens.
Is Cannabis an entheogen? Do some
stoners get more out of their weed than others? While there
are many ways to use Cannabis, this session explores the spiritual
context, including: getting �out of it� by �putting into it�,
the merits of intention and ritual in optimising the stone-zone, and Marijuana and institutionalised religions such as Sadhus or Rastafarian,
as well as more recent Cannabis Churches.
Sunday 5 May 2013
12.30 �
1.30pm
Is it Medication
Time? Cannabis Medicine in Australia in 2013
Facilitator: Steve Bolt Panelists:
Tony Bower [Mullaways Medical Cannabis
Pty Ltd] Cate Faehrmann [Greens NSW MP] Mark Heinrich [Cannabis Science
Australia] Dr Graham Irvine, Dr Andrew Katelaris,
Fiona Patten [Australian Sex Party] Matt Walker, Alex Wodak
[Australia21/Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation]
Medical marijuana has
transformed drug politics in the United States. This year, NSW
Parliament is seriously examining the efficacy and safety of
using cannabis for medical purposes; if and how cannabis should
be supplied for medical use; and the legal implications and
issues concerning the use of cannabis for medical purposes.
If Cannabis is a medicine, does it follow that the same rules
and processes apply as for the use of insulin or penicillin,
or should regulation allow for self-medication? Should regulation
restrict access to medicinal marijuana to pharmaceutical products
consumed in nasal sprays, tablet or other forms? Just a few of the issues to be covered during medication time.
