Emerald buds in the land of Oz

Starfish Ventures investment director Ivor Frischknecht said,

"entrepreneurs should be looking to repeat their success rather than basking in it," he said. "In the US, if they have a big success they want to do it again," he said. "Here, if you have a big success, you go yippee, I’m off to Byron (Bay) to smoke pot and have a good time."    

Why Byron Bay of all places, maybe because it is one hour from nimbin.

check out the galley at bayweb.com.au

Selling and smoking marijuana may be illegal in Australia, but in Nimbin on Australia’s fertile northeast coast authorities unofficially ignore the pot smoking.

You can figure out that the law makers would have to build a super prison to house all the pot smokers, around 40,000 or so, instead they decided to let them imprison themselves in paradise instead. Not convinced here is an article that should be in the history books in our schools, written by by Pete Brady and titled Emerald buds in the land of Oz and dated 06 Feb, 2002.

In 1770, British explorer James Cook arrived on the continent, decided the Aborigines were "uncivilized" but happy, and claimed Australia as English territory.

The Brits decided to use Australia as a prison colony. In early 1788, the first of hundreds of convicts landed in Sydney Harbor. They got drunk and rioted. They terrorized Aborigines. Their empire set up British-style government and culture. Their descendants marginalized Aboriginal culture and cut down almost all the country’s rain forests and temperate woodlands. Massive extinctions, ecocide, and genocide have characterized Australia’s "modernization."

Officials in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) grew thousands of acres of hemp during the 1800’s. NSW’s governor wrote Banks that he had sown 10 acres of "Indian hemp seeds" that grew "with utmost luxuriance, generally from six to ten feet in height." This was in 1802; apparently the governor and Banks did not know that they were growing the "drug strain," Cannabis Indica. Regardless, the drug crop’s stalks made high quality rope and other industrial hemp products.

Full article: cannabisculture.com