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This is Nimbin: inside the “refugee camp for the war on drugs”
A look inside Australia’s pot paradise.
Backpackers kick back while sharing a joint in the Oasis Cafe, Nimbin. Several shops in town turn a blind-eye to customers using marijuana. (Paul Jeffers)
Article by Mike McHardy
Photography by Paul Jeffers
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The Hemp Embassy
In Australia, marijuana has been outlawed for the past 75 years. It remains just as illegal today as it was in March 1993, when residents in the village of Nimbin, New South Wales erupted into a spontaneous political protest. The juvenile uprising that saw locals shelling the police station with eggs was a reaction to thousands of raids and arrests throughout the 1980’s and early 90’s.
Only two months later, on May 1st, 1993, the people of Nimbin engaged in a more peaceful rally, which became the inaugural “Mardigrass Protestival”. For the past 22 years the Hemp Embassy, Nimbin’s political stronghold, together with supporters from around the world have campaigned for cannabis law reform.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/08/this-is-nimbin-inside-the-refugee-camp-for-the-war-on-drugs/
