‘Letters For Legalisation’: Key Members of Parliament
Let's send 420,000 letters to Parliament this #420! #420LETTERS Better Letters and Friendly Aussie Buds have officially joined forces in the 'Letters For Legalisation' campaign! We'll be working together to achieve our collective goal of flooding the Federal House and Senate with 420,000 letters before the 20th of April, 2019. Our representatives won't know what hit them! Really, though - just consider the possibilities, if we actually...
Join Our Weed Legalisation Campaign
The fight for freedom and civil rights, of which cannabis legalisation is a part, is still ongoing. Weed legalisation remained an unpopular opinion throughout the 20th century, the era of the 'global war on drugs'. In the 1970s, only a small proportion of Australians supported legalising marijuana... and they were usually the pot smoking hippies Things have certainly changed since...
Australia: Where Your Plug Can Face a Similar Sentence to a Paedophile
Welcome to the 'Great Southern Land'; where sexual abusers of innocent children routinely face similar prison sentences to non-violent drug offenders. The recent high-profile conviction of Cardinal George Pell - one of Australia's most publicly known sex offenders, who also happened to be Australia’s most senior Catholic - has raised serious questions concerning the overall efficacy of our justice system. Earlier...
Medicinal Cannabis in Australia is Godawful. Here’s Why
It wasn't long ago that the majority of the Australian cannabis community was highly optimistic about the early trials of legal medicinal weed. Many of us thought the new regulatory practices would lead to the widespread acceptance of the plant in medical circles by the end of the decade, with federal legalisation of recreational weed believed to only be...
Aussie Cannabis Laws: Victoria
Aussie cannabis laws are a mixed bag. While the days of the heavy-handed 'War on Drugs' are (mostly) behind us, we are all still faced with navigating a society that stigmatises and punishes weed users in a multitude of ways. This is without mentioning that we live in a federation, which makes it extra complicated on our bud-soaked brains. Each state has...
Cone vs. Bowl Part 6: What Should I Be Paying?
This series has gone into quite a bit of depth, when it comes to where & how to get your weed in the United States; we covered legal & illegal states, vapes & edibles, CBD sources, dorm-room plugs and even delivery services. Locating it, however, is only half the battle. It's the subsequent bargaining that's gonna cost you — particularly with...
