^ The reason they couldn't air Underbelly in Melbourne I thought was that people were still on trial who the show portrayed as being guilty of crimes they were charged with. When (I believe it was only a limited amount of episodes) did eventually air I seem to recall they never mentioned Tony Mokbel's name and that is why they did the whole Mokbel and Co one this year, I could be wrong though.
I don't think making a trailer where you show a few people growing and smoking choof is that elaborate if it were a scam, it isn't like the supposed makers could not of convinced a handful of growers or so that they were legit and got enough footage to make a trailer, they could even be cannabis growers themselves who had more interest in a quick buck than making an informative documentary. They also could not of been aware they would only receive $25k in donations, they may have believed they would generate a lot more than that.
I am not even saying I think that this is/was a scam, it is just hard not to be a little suspicious though, when someone receives a considerable sum of money to do something then just up and disappears and there are no sign the project is going to continue you can hardly rule out the possibility that it was a rort. I should point out though that I have very little facts in front of me, and am actually taking your word TS14 that they received these donations in the first place, I am by no means trying to make the accusation that those responsible for the Marijuana Australiana trailer have scammed Aussie stoners of $25K, just that if some claims in this thread are true it is looking like a possibility.
Like yourself I would really like to know what happened, I genuinely have been looking forward to the release of this documentary, and given a few things that have happened in the last week or so I think more Australians may be receptive to the message of a pro cannabis documentary.
It is always possible they encountered some kind of legal troubles during the making of this documentary, both directly related to the shooting of the doco or just by chance, given the likely interests of those who were making it. Part of me is doubtful about this though, as it seems to me it would be easy enough to post some kind of update that this is the case as opposed to taking it all down. Also, I kind of feel like if someone or a group of people got busted while trying to make a documentary of this nature that would likely be news worthy to some extent, and we probably would of heard about it.
