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The Aussie-Grown List: Who’s Actually Growing Cannabis in Australia
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The Aussie-Grown List: Who’s Actually Growing Cannabis in Australia

Which Australian cannabis farms are actually growing, which have Aussie-grown brands in market, and which licence holders aren't growing at all.

6 Oct 20267 min read
Parliamentary Petitions for Medicinal Cannabis Road Safety
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Parliamentary Petitions for Medicinal Cannabis Road Safety

Who Are We Hurting? Collective Throws Support Behind Parliamentary Petitions for THC Exemptions in Random Drug Testing Laws. NSW, QLD & VIC…

9 Jan 20243 min read
Time To Take A Stand: Support Legal Reform In QLD For Medicinal Cannabis Patients and Driving
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Time To Take A Stand: Support Legal Reform In QLD For Medicinal Cannabis Patients and Driving

Support change in drug driving laws in Queensland for medicinal cannabis patients by signing the petition and filling out a recent government…

14 Dec 20232 min read1 comment
Jeremy Buckingham Makes History as Legalise Cannabis NSW’s First Elected MP
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Jeremy Buckingham Makes History as Legalise Cannabis NSW’s First Elected MP

In 2023 Jeremy Buckingham became Legalise Cannabis NSW's first elected MP. What his win meant for the party and for cannabis reform…

19 Apr 20232 min read
Cannabis Activists Arrested After 420 Laser Demonstration
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Cannabis Activists Arrested After 420 Laser Demonstration

On 4/20 2022, the Who Are We Hurting crew projected a laser message in Sydney and were arrested by NSW Police. What…

25 Apr 20223 min read1 comment
Come On, Australia: It’s Time to Drive Change
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Come On, Australia: It’s Time to Drive Change

Back in 2022 we backed the Drive Change campaign to end unfair drug driving laws for medicinal cannabis patients. What the campaign…

21 Mar 20224 min read
We Got Raided. What Next?
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We Got Raided. What Next?

Back in 2021 police raided FAB HQ and found a plant. Joe tells the full story: the raid, the charges, the fine,…

9 Mar 20223 min read2 comments
An Update to the ‘Evidence-Free RDT’ Campaign
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An Update to the ‘Evidence-Free RDT’ Campaign

In light of the recent Medicinal Cannabis Driving Exemption Bill up for debate in NSW parliament in May 2022, the CrazeCo are gearing…

1 Dec 20213 min read1 comment
Tasmania: the First State to End Evidence-Free RDT!
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Tasmania: the First State to End Evidence-Free RDT!

Back in 2021, Drive Change found a defence in Tasmania drug driving law for unimpaired medicinal cannabis patients. How it worked and…

14 Jul 20219 min read1 comment
What’s Causing the Great Aussie ‘Dry Spell’ of 2020?
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What’s Causing the Great Aussie ‘Dry Spell’ of 2020?

Back in 2020, good bud got scarce across Australia. FAB investigates the weed dry spell: the growers, supply chains and police pressure…

15 Sep 202011 min read4 comments
#TGACBD – A Public Consultation on the Scheduling of Cannabidiol in Australia
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#TGACBD – A Public Consultation on the Scheduling of Cannabidiol in Australia

Back in 2020, the TGA asked the public about rescheduling low-dose CBD. Our explainer on the TGA CBD scheduling review and the…

19 May 202010 min read
‘PGR’ Produced by Organised Crime Exploits Low-Income Immigrants
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‘PGR’ Produced by Organised Crime Exploits Low-Income Immigrants

Toxic PGR weed is often grown by organised crime using low-income migrant workers. Our 2020 look at the PGR organised crime pipeline…

24 Mar 20209 min read
Cooked QLD Government Rejects Recommendations to Decriminalise Drugs
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Cooked QLD Government Rejects Recommendations to Decriminalise Drugs

In 2020 the QLD government ruled out drug decriminalisation, despite its own Productivity Commission backing reform. What the report found.

15 Feb 20205 min read1 comment
NSW Government to Search Without Warrants in Latest Drug Crackdown
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NSW Government to Search Without Warrants in Latest Drug Crackdown

Back in 2019, the NSW drug crackdown promised by the re-elected government let police search suspected users without warrants. What it meant…

2 Apr 20196 min read
Replace Cotton Farms With Hemp in the Murray-Darling Basin
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Replace Cotton Farms With Hemp in the Murray-Darling Basin

Hemp vs cotton: hemp uses about a third of the water. Our 2019 case for swapping cotton for hemp to take pressure…

14 Jan 20197 min read9 comments
United Nations, Weed Legalisation, and the Australian Addiction to Opium
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United Nations, Weed Legalisation, and the Australian Addiction to Opium

Why isn't weed legal in Australia? Our 2018 look at the UN treaties, the pharmaceutical money and the opioid crisis standing in…

20 Dec 20188 min read3 comments
Legalisation and the Race to Riches
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Legalisation and the Race to Riches

Back in 2018, the Australian cannabis industry was just getting going. A look at the early medicinal cannabis boom and the money…

30 Oct 20182 min read1 comment

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