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| The Hemp Embassy reminds me of the Home Grown Trading Post where I worked in Newcastle in the Eighties |
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| The long running Hemp Embassy in Australia |
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| Hemp Embassy @ Nimbin (Photo credit: M i x y) |
The long running Hemp Embassy in Australia
Lonely Planet review for
Hemp Embassy
This place raises consciousness about marijuana legalisation, as well
as providing all the tools and fashion items you'll need to get high
(or at least attract more police raids). The embassy leads the Mardi
Grass festival each May. Smokers are welcome at the tiny Hemp Bar next
door, which is like Haight-Ashbury in a bottle.
In 1973 tribes of
hippies attended the
Aquarius Festival in the Northern NSW town of
Nimbin.
When police tried to arrest revellers who were openly smoking
marijuana, the crowd of 6,000 rioted. Nimbin is home to the Hemp
Embassy, founded by activist pioneer Michael Balderstone, and the
MardiGrass, an annual festival dedicated to cannabis which began in 1993.
I found this interesting, and the sort of tests that interest me given I firmly believe we are all different people.
Testing the Drugwipe Twin.
Test Date: 10th February , 2007
The HEMP Embassy purchased a number of Drugwipe Twin saliva tests, as
used by the NSW Iemmabago. They cost around $40 each. We tested them
over a range of conditions, and got contradictory results. There was not
a consistent time after smoking for either positive or negative
results. Eating or drinking after smoking had no apparent effect on the
result. Hydro had 3 positives & 1 negative, Good Bush had 4
positives & 2 negatives, while plain Bush had 5 positives & 1
negative. The Hash Chocolate subject tested negative, despite the
subject saying they were "off their tits".
One subject
smoked three times for three separate tests, made over a period of 165
minutes, and came up negative for the last one, while another subject
smoker proved negative for the second of three tests conducted over 95
minutes. A subject tested positive immediately after smoking, while
another proved negative after 5 minutes. Another subject tested positive
after 375 minutes (6 hours 15 minutes), but there were also two
subjects that tested negative after 245 minutes (4 hours 5 minutes) and
360 minutes (6 hours). One subject was positive at 10 minutes, but
negative after 65 minutes, while another was positive at 32 minutes, but
negative at 65 minutes. This made it impossible to give a clear window
of vulnerability.
It is possible that some smokers might
still test positive 6 hours or more after smoking, while others with a
different metabolism will test negative 5 or 20 minutes after.
The general conclusion was that the Drugwipe Twin testing devices did
not achieve their claimed 90% cannabis detection rate. Within the
context of our small sample, we felt 50 to 60% was closer to the mark.
So that is just some information about the Nimbin Hemp Embassy ... All respect to the Nimbinji spirit of Nimbin.
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