Nimbin: Australia’s Cannabis Capital Hidden among the green hills of northern New South Wales, not far from Byron Bay, is a small Australian town whose reputation reaches surprisingly far beyond its modest population. Its name is Nimbin, and for more than half a century it has occupied a unique place in Australian counterculture. Mention Nimbin […]
Category: Oceania
Australian Aborigines and Cannabis Use Today
Cannabis is a plant used all over the world for many centuries now. In Australia, it has many other names, including ganja, marijuana, hash, yarndi, amarda, skunk, and weed. Currently, it is still illegal to purchase, grow, or sell the plant in the country, but the penalties imposed differ depending on the specific location. Just […]
Cannabis in Australia
Cannabis is the most widely used drug that is considered illicit and prohibited in Australia. It is estimated that around 750,000 Aussies consume marijuana on a weekly basis while 300,000 citizens smoke weed every day. Australia ranks as one of the highest in the world for marijuana usage frequency. Recreational marijuana is still widely restricted […]
Palau: Is a truly vacation paradise of marijuana?
The report about World Marijuana use, published by United Nations in 2012, revealed a very curious fact about a tiny group of islands in the middle of Pacific Ocean. The rate adult cannabis consumption in Palau was 24.2% for the year 2011, the second world highest rate, right after Papua New Guinea. The findings of […]
Australian grandma caught selling marijuana
An 81 years old woman has been arrested and charged wit growing and selling marijuana. The website cnn.com reports that the old woman, living in eastern Australia, in the little city of Young, around 250 kilometers south-west of Sydney. The woman has been now released, but in one month she will have to appear in […]
Most of Aborigens smoke marijuana
About 60% of all aborigens smoke marijuana and most of them get stoned daily. These percentages are much higher than the ones recorded in Australia or in western countries. When they smoke,they usually inhale 7 cones (joints) a day, and this is also a lot more than what australians use. One of their leader said […]
Marijuana: lies, lies,lies and more lies
Disinformation and misinformation are common word if used together with the words cannabis or marijuana, but when we read this article we found difficult do not laugh. A New Zeeland “expert” wrote: “The analysis found that heavy cannabis users were also more likely to be violent, get involved in fights, ride in cars being driven […]
Cannabis space cake in a NZ private school
Five students have been suspended from a prestigious New Zeeland private school. The reason? The guys were eating pieces of a space cake, made with cannabis oil. The director of the school said that she had to take this decision after she had found that they had stored a cake containing cannabis at the school […]
Marijuana sold at market in Papua New Guinea
According to provincial police commander, a lot of homegrown marijuana and homebrew is for sale openly at the local market in Kundiawa, Simbu. Marijuna and beer are both illegal in Papua New Guinea. The marrket is just in front of the local police station and the chief of police wanna stop the sale sending police personnel […]