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Cannabis To Be Trialed in the Nimbin Valley

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To my complete amazement I stumbled across this post on another forum tonight and thought everyone here would like to have a read:

The first steps in the move towards the regulation, taxation and control of Cannabis to be trialed in the Nimbin Valley..

The Nimbin Valley Cannabis Trial will be for a 6 month period (11.11.2010 till 11.5.2011)

- 6 cannabis retail outlets in the "cafe" mode.
- Designated smoking areas in each cafe.
- Single 'dose' pre rolled 'joints' for sale for smoking in cafe ONLY.
- Sale of medical grade cannabis; limit 15 gms; using credit card/debit card through eftpos with G.S.T paid.
- Creation of Outdoor Organic Cannabis Growing Co Operatives with quality controls.
-The creation of a "POLICE BOOK" system similar to the car business: A registrar for buyers and suppliers, name/ address/ drivers license / medicare cards as proof of ID. To be available for inspection at each cafe.

Coffeeshop rules include:

No admittance unless 18 years or older. No sale or use of hard drugs.
Availability of heath information on cannabis use, harm reduction and cessation. Facility for summary closure for breach of fair trading regulations.

Be in Nimbin at 4.20 PM on the 11th of November 2010, at which time we will write your name and address etc into the "POLICE BOOK".

Then, your eftpos card will be charged $150.00 AU + GST total $165.00

the model we will be implementing is not specifically a medical cannabis one, the object during of trial is to create a system of total transparency that is easy to police and tax....
See this comment from Max Stone from the Nimbin Hemp Embassy

Now that you have had some time to digest the information above, I would like to add some background.

I was informing a senior member of the local police of the latest developments in global cannabis law reform, [one of my tasks here in the Embassy is police liason]and I was talking about Prop 19 and what impact that was going to make on Australian Cannabis Law Reform.

I asked the policeman, if it was up to him/her, what would they suggest be the way forward.

They said.

- 6 cannabis retail outlets in the "cafe" mode.
- Designated smoking areas in each cafe.
- Single 'dose' pre rolled 'joints' for sale for smoking in cafe ONLY.
- Sale of medical grade cannabis; limit 15 gms; using credit card/debit card through eftpos with G.S.T paid.
- Creation of Outdoor Organic Cannabis Growing Co Operatives with quality controls who pay GST at point of sale.
-The creation of a "POLICE BOOK" system similar to the car business..........

I was not surprised to hear such a well thought out reply from the officer in question, they have spent plenty of time in the streets of Nimbin working and thinking of the best way to break the deadlock.

As I wrote down the 6 things, I was most impressed by how the taxation aspects were covered and how easy it would be for the police to police the designated areas- to keep track of who is buying and who is rowing and how easy it will then be to identify and arrest those who choose to 'deal' out side the designated area's.

I would further add that there is significance to the dates of the six month trial, it starts on Armistice Day and ends after MardiGrass 2011.
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This is copied from a thread on the Nimbin Hemp Embassy Forum. This is all the information I have about this at the moment. I have as many questions I want to ask about this as everyone else.
 
well, thats interesting.

of all places i didnt expect australia to come out with that.
well i guess it is nimbin!!

ohh and headah, mdma doesnt need to be legal, just needs to exist :D
altho medical grade legal mdma would be a dream come true.
 
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Be in Nimbin at 4.20 PM on the 11th of November 2010, at which time we will write your name and address etc into the "POLICE BOOK".
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If you aren't there at that time does that make it impossible for you to get in the police book and therefore buy?
 
sounds like bullshit to me. police don't have that sort of power to create such zones.

Why would keneally broker some sort of Amsterdam cannabis cafe deal at a time her government is looking at complete annihilation .

No media release? no Majors from the salvos shitting on the idea? no fred nile jumping up and down about how its the end of the world? Where is the spin.

Sounds like someone is bored in Nimbin valley.

Also the problem isn't in the use of it but the cultivation. If they had 30 customers who purchased 15 grams (approx half an ounce) then they would have to be coming up with a pound of cannabis.

If that happened every day for a week then they're looking at 7 pounds of cannabis per week. If this was cultivated outside you'd imagine the yield is about say 225 grams (if they're very lucky) per plant. So to get that sort of product they would have to have 14 plants constantly ready for harvest. and then they're doing this for 6 months or 26 weeks which would mean 182 pounds of cannabis required to provide 30 customers a day with 15 grams.

Furthermore the article somehow claims that 6 business will be doing this. I don't know how many people live in Nimbin (or how many tourists hit it) but if you had 6 business services about 20-30 customers a day buying the max order then we're talking about a shit load of cannabis either being produced or making its way to Nimbin.

Now I can easily see the cops not bothering about someone smoking a joint.

but not interdicting the fields or stopping trafficking of that sort of weight, yeah right, 8)
 
man i hate to sound to negative, but i have to agree with chugs. i think there's a good possibility that its a bored individual who wants to rally people in nimbin at 4.20 for a monster toke.

on the otherhand, i'm definitely hoping its legit. and if it is, all i can say is, Yeeeeuwwww! :)
 
Stupid hippies. If they actually go ahead with this (and they won't) I'd give them about 45 minutes before they all get arrested.
 
Actually maybe just read the thread: http://www.hempembassy.net/forums/C...l-of-Cannabis-in-Australia./9,1328,0,10,0,0,0

This is the latest post by the moderator (which doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me):

MaxStone said:
back on topic.....

Over the next weeks, this model is to be presented (in person) to Richmond Area Command in Lismore and Regional Police H.Q. in Port MacQuarie and to the Minister for Police - The Hon. Michael Daley MP.

The Nimbin Cannabis Cafe Trial is going to start at 4.20 PM on the 11th of November, maybe it starts from just the one cafe (H*E*M*P*Bar) maybe it starts with only 1 name in the police book as designated grower (Dave Cannabis) and1 name as a 15 gram medical buyer (Max Stone) and maybe there is only 1 joint for sale.........

till next

;O)
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I would've added these links and more last night but was unsure whether they were allowed or not. I posted them on the other forums and just assumed people here would search for them.

thickskin said:
this suggests it's a proposal:
http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/cannabiscafes/fastrak.html
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I have been unable to find out how old this particular proposal actually is. A lot of the info relating to this particular proposal appears to have been published in 2000. At least we know with the info from yesterday that it is a current proposal.
 
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