Well, I’m back on home turf in Victoria after a two-week fact-finding jaunt in New York, and I’m high with optimism (it can’t still be those brownies??). Fun fact; Australia legalised cannabis for medical use nine months before the state of New York back in 2016. New York then legalised cannabis for recreational adult use…
Did you know cannabis was made illegal in Australia in 1926, even though cannabis wasn’t considered a problem in Australia at the time? Like a lot of newbie nations under British rule, we jumped on board and signed treaties willy nilly, hoping to look compliant and make the big players proud. Enter the 1925 Geneva…
Legalise Cannabis Senate candidate for Victoria Fiona Patten is in the United States on a week long fact-finding mission to investigate cannabis legalisation in the state of New York. New York legalised the medicinal use of cannabis in 2016, following with ending the prohibition for recreational use in 2020. The ongoing tour has highlighted interesting…
If you told me at the start of 2024 that within 12-months I would be back and once again gearing up for another election campaign, I would have laughed. My 2022 bid for a third term in the Victorian upper house was unsuccessful, Reason Party was on the backburner, I had just had surgery for…