Sunday<\/strong> 7 May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\nGather at 2pm in the Western Carpark<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe MARDIGRASS Parade is not a spectator sport. Please feel free to join the parade and show your support for pot law reform.<\/h4>\n\n\n\nWe’re all in this together!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Gather and get ready for the MardiGrass Parade!! Meet at the exit of the western car park, across the road from the Community Centre Market. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe march is the main event, so please walk with us for cannabis law reform!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis is our 31st consecutive annual Rally for Cannabis Law Reform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We vowed to Rally every year on the first Sunday in May until we are no longer criminals for using this herb. Prohibition is an incitement, not a control! MardiGrass will become a Festival when we can celebrate the herb without fear of prosecution and persecution. When the Police have a float in the street parade behind the Ganja Faeries, Big Joint & POLITE, then we really will have a proper festival and celebration. In the meantime, this annual event is a POLITICAL PROTEST RALLY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLed by the Widjibal Elders of the Bunjalung Nation, with children holding the Koori flag, the parade this year will start off at 2.30pm from<\/strong> the Western carpark and make its way south along Cullen street where it will turn left and head down past the Town Hall and Greenbank into Plantem Park<\/strong> for the Cannabis Law Reform Rally, speeches and MardiGrass Float Prize presentations. <\/p>\n\n\n\nJust follow the GANJA FAERIES and the BIG JOINT!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ganja Faeries celebrate the spirit of MardiGrass. They dance behind the Bundjalung people who traditionally welcome the protesters to their country each year. Their dance has itself become a tradition simply because the laws remain unacceptable to all self respecting ganja users, be they Bundjalung, faeries or otherwise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rally speeches from Bundjalung Elders, Michael Balderstone <\/strong>of the Hemp Embassy, <\/strong>ex-magistrate David Heilpern, Dr Brian Walker <\/strong>from Legalise Cannabis WA, Jason “Wilfred” Gann, <\/strong>and Fiona Patten <\/strong>the Reason Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n