Big Joint

BIG JOINT to N*C*P*I*C on a H*E*M*P Party MemberShip Drive 2009:

It has been proposed that we take the Big Joint to the first National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre's First Cannabis Conference in Sydney, stopping at a couple of beaches on the way down. To find out more about the N*C*P*I*C click. As always, we want to bring awareness to the desperate need to END PROHIBITION and regulating medical cannabis as the obvious next step on the way to full relegalization. Do keep in mind that every move we make with the GOOD MEDICINE - LET IT GROW BIG JOINT is part of our ongoing and so far highly successful 2009 HE*M*P Party Membership Drive, and yes, the Big Joint will be accompanied by the POLITE FORCE.

Friday
The team selected to go on the BIG Joint mission, Undatoka, Max Stone, Hayley Jones and Matt Mattias, assembled at the HEMP Bar and loaded up the trailor hitched behind Black Betty the Daihatsu Rocky. After a brief visit to the local radio station Nim FM 102.3 to announce the "Polite Force" departure, we headed off on our journey. We decided to hole up at Kempsey in a motel, making an immediate dent into our mission funding, but was considered better by far than sleeping outdoors somewhere beside the highway. This trip we tested a USB modem as a way to webcast on the move charging batteries at every chance when we stopped for a break, it was cool to be able to Facebook and Twitter on the "Super Highway" as we hurtled down the Pacific Highway.

Saturday
Around midday we hit Newcastle and wound our way to the beach we had planned to first blow up the BIG Joint, but, to our disappointment there was too much wind. "You can't blow the BIG Joint up if there is wind over 10 kilometers an hour " warned Salty the HEMP Embassy's "Guardian of the BIG Joint; So it was decided to push on to Woy Woy to look up an old Mate and fellow cannabis activist Mulcontent (EL Presidente of the PoT [r]evolution,) or Mully to his mates, and he offered us the comfort of the floor of his little flat to sleep on, so, after some plotting over pizza and coffee we made our beds and held a symphony of snores till morning.

Sunday
We arrived at the famous Bondi Beach around our planned time of midday, but after a long search for a parking spot near where we could inflate the BIG Joint, we realized it was Father's Day and all the parks full of families that probably wouldn't appreciate a generator and leaf blower making a racket, so it was agreed to abandon this minor part of the mission and seek out a good starting spot for the main mission. We found the Glasgow Arms hotel which was opposite the Powerhouse Museum where our targeted conference was to be held Max Stone booked us in for the night and scouted around for any support there may be. It wasn't long till he came back with the news that not only had he found the perfect place to blow up the BIG Joint, but there was someone happy to lend us his power to blow it up. Thanks Duncan your support was greatly appreciated. With just about everything ready to go for the morrow, Hayley and Matt set off for a look around Sydney and Max and Undatoka rested in preparation for the big day that lay ahead.

Monday
Max Stone woke the crew up early, and after a coffee we gathered up the equipment we needed and headed down to our starting location, and knocked on Duncans' door so he could power us up, as Undatoka had come down with the gout and was hobbling about he got the job of blowing up the BIG Joint while Max liaised with security and the police. Word had come down that the Polite force from Nimbin was in town, so the police new they were in for an easy day (the Nimbin crew have a reputation for getting their point across with colour and movement and very little trouble ). Finally the BIG Joint was inflated and the four of us swung it up above our heads and marched to our designated spot. Haley and Matt busied themselves handing out MardiGrass programs and put up the "HONK for HEMP" signs and spoke to Sarah a student journalist as Max webcamed us from different positions and angles. After some time a news crew from channel 10 came along to see what the fuss was about and Max Stone and Undatoka held a mini press conference about the BIG Joint and why we where here, part of which was aired on the 10 evening news later in the day. Finally we decided we could achieve no more for the day we packed up and after a brief visit to some of Max's relatives "since we are down here" we turned Black Betty's nose for home. After a fairly non eventful drive we decided to stay the night at the same motel in Kempsey and blew what was left of our budget on a good night's sleep

Tuesday
We headed home and stopped briefly to visit Max's Mum who had taped the news item for us. Undatoka was dropped off at his turn off and the rest of the crew continued on to Nimbin and the HEMP Embassy to unload and debrief. All in all it was considered a successful mission, Thanks and congratulations to all involved.

words by Undatoka

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For those who have come in late; Part 1. The Polite Force is becoming one of the most successful propaganda weapons we have ever assembled, how successful? Highly! If you can remember and if you were there, no matter where you went during MardiGrass 09, any time day or night, everywhere you cared to look you could see a POLITE hat or a member of the POLITE FORCE staging a succession of what where in essence, and by design, Avante-garde Tableau Vivants: Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard", the adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Tableau vivant is French for "living picture." The term describes a striking group of suitably costumed actors or artist's models, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Throughout the duration of the display, the people shown do not speak or move. The approach thus marries the art forms of the stage with those of painting / photography. Each tableux capturing the POLICE - POLITE message, thousands and thousands of photographs of the POLITE FORCE have now become part of the public domain, the concept is out there and thriving on facebook and youtube, indeed the POLITE Cannabis Activists from Nimbin have already become a global phenomena and part of cannabis law reform legend.

^^LAST TIME WE WENT TO PARLIAMENT HOUSE^^

For those who have come in late; Part 2. The plan is point out the POTential revenue that would be raised by the HEMP revolution, please keep uppermost in mind we are not talking about a government tax on home grown cannabis for personal use, we are talking about the revenue that will be generated by the hemp Agri business - Fibre, Fuel and Food. Hemp is stronger and requires far less fertilizer than, say, cotton; being naturally insect repellent, and having few insect predators capable of effectively attacking it, it needs little to no pe$ticide$. As food, hemp seed is right up there with the Soya bean for nutrition and a lot more versatile. Since Hemp seed is the only food source that has the vital Omega Acids 3,6 and 9 it can help reduce humanities reliance on fish, currently the main source of omega acid. I should also add that cannabis has a growing reputation amongst cancer patients as a wonder drug and it's 'miracle cure' reputation for breast and prostate cancer has been scientifically verified since the last time we took the BigJoint to Canberra. Another example? How about old growth Tasmanian forest being sold as wood chips for a couple of dollars a tonne. Irreplaceable forest for a measly $2 per tonne. If the government were to legislate a redeployment of the 'woodchip' industry into the 'hemp industry, within a few years the HEMPchip industry will be churning out high quality pulp and what's left of the old growth could stay alive until someone wants to pay its real value; $200,000,000 a tonne. Since a hemp seed is 35% oil, containing the highest oil percentage of all seeds, hempseed is ideal for bio diesel and when the sustainability of a bio diesel industry is compared to the unstable future of the oil business, case closed, I mean the price of oil has never come down in my lifetime, hemp based fuel could save Australia billions and billions of dollars. Still yet another example? Hemp is being used in the Ukraine around Chernobyl to absorb radioactive isotopes from the soil. That's just some of the reasons. Stimulate the Economy, cure cancer, save the trees and fish, reduce our dependency on oil and clean up nuclear waste........... I am not making this up, cross check all this info on Google.

Bottom Line? We do not want cannabis legalized just so we can sit around and smoke pot all day long, we have common sense reasons why 'out door' cannabis should be relegalized so that all Australians can benefit from this wonderful plant, indeed, from a global perspective, no other country on earth stands to gain as much as Australia does by relegalizing the hemp plant in this time of Global Economic Turmoil. We have the acreage, the sunlight and the willing workers required to become the earths leading supplier of hemp for Fibre, Fuel, Food and Medicine.

till next update....

peace.

Max Stone

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