Candidates

The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party has nominated father and daughter, James and Tayla Moylan, to be the Western Australia Federal Senate Candidates.

Voting is one moment when you need not be paranoid about making a mark for Cannabis law reform, as it is anonymous in a private voting booth! Unlike some ATM’s, we are confident there will be no hidden cameras!

Look for Group T on the WA Senate ballot paper.

Vote 1 HEMP to re-legalise and regulate
Cannabis for personal, medical and industrial use.

James and Tayla Moylan with Michael Balderstone (centre) at the HEMP Embassy

Nominated HEMP Party Senate Candidates 2014

FURTHER INFORMATION:
James Moylan (Campaign Director & WA Candidate) can be contacted on:
(02) 6621 8419 or Mob 0439 377 217 or by email at [email protected]

Michael Balderstone (HEMP President) can be contacted on:
(02) 6689 0326 or by email at [email protected]

Follow the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party WA Senate Re-election Campaign at

facebook,com/HEMP.WA

THE BIG THREE WEDGE ISSUES…

Will every activist, wherever you are, get together and discuss the upcoming WA Poll? We can use this opportunity to have Cannabis law reform discussed in local and mainstream media. At the main table we will mainly considering…

Industrial… (1)

The Final Report of the Inquiry into the Tasmanian Industrial Hemp Industry (see link below) contains a raft of considered proposals that are coached in a manner that makes it easy for conservative politicians to understand the need to move on this issue as quickly as possible. We are going to spend a fair bit of time highlighting the need for Aussie politicians to take notice of the this report and act on its recommendations. Our byline for the “industrial HEMP debate at this election will be: “We have to catch up with the rest of the world”.

http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/House/Reports/Inquiry%20into%20the%20Tasmanian%20Industrial%20Hemp%20Industry%20-%20Final%20Feport.pdf

Hemp seed as a foodstuff… (2)

The FSANZ (Food Standards, Australia, New Zealand) inquiry into hemp seed for human consumption, which is looking into altering the Food Standards regulations to allow for the integration of hemp seed foodstuffs into the Australian marketplace, has been undertaking an eighteen month investigation for the last five years. This June the main FSANZ group meets (once again) to consider this matter.

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/Search/pages/results.aspx?k=hemp%20seed

Every HEMP group in the country is invited to think about how we can highlight the stupidity of refusing to allow the for the cultivation and consumption of hemp seed for food in Australia. This is a big topic that is sooo easy for people to understand. Even silly and misguided people eat and understand some aspects of nutrition and the fostering of good health.

Medicine… (3)

The conservative forces in our land have always used the supposed requirement for far more research to be undertaken into cannabis as a medicine as a good ‘middle-ground’ – mainly as a stalling tactic: and so the result of most of the committees of inquiry into cannabis as a medicine that have been conducted in our land have concluded that we need to undertake a lot more research.

In this way the medicinal Cannabis debate has, time and again, stalled and then spluttered and then stalled once more. We get the momentum up for a committee of inquiry, it makes recommendations that research must be undertaken towards… And then nothing happens. Since, at the very least, everyone agrees that a great deal of research has to be done: why aren’t we undertaking the research?

Every group of HEMPsters is invited to ask a politician why they won’t even allow for research projects involving dying patients receiving needed medicine?

HEMP on Alcohol

Alcohol abuse costs 60 Aussie lives every week. This is a death toll which can be addressed and mitigated.

The HEMP Party believes that the money currently being used for criminal interdiction in the so-called ‘drug war’ should be immediately redeployed towards education and health care.

We advocate that the government should treat the current death toll caused by legal substances within our community with at least the same passion and indignity they seem to reserve for the much lesser toll inflicted by illegal substances.

Changes to alcohol taxation policies by moving towards a volumetric system would seem to be rational, however these matters need to be part of a holistic approach to the taxation of substances used as social intoxicants.

Further legal controls on alcohol advertising are also worth considering although the HEMP Party favours regulation rather than prohibition as a matter of general policy.

However where advertising has a direct or vicarious yet measurable effect upon a young audience we are open to the idea of a ban regarding this particular demographic.

HEMP might variously support:

• Review labeling requirements for alcoholic products.
• Consideration of the stocking of alcohol in or near supermarket premises and other generalised retail outlets.
• Reassessing the powers currently provided to local councils regarding licensing provisions (additions, alterations, new national provisions).
• Making public a running total of the number of alcohol fatalities for the year on a public scoreboard.
• Removing the provision of alcohol rehabilitation services from the hands of proselytising charities and placing it in the hands of dedicated health professionals (and funding the same).
• Ensuring that the proceeds of taxes and excises raised from tobacco and alcohol sales are earmarked and expended solely on substance abuse health services and public education.
• Outlawing political lobby by pharmaceutical and alcohol industry representatives unless the meeting is joined by a public advocate who is (by legislative decree) free from any privacy restraint and is able to promptly publish observations in a publicly accessible manner.

Consideration of adopting a total care approach to practicing homeless alcoholics and providing them with a stipend and access to housing where they will not be evicted for further substance abuse.

As a society we have the option of either having alcoholics dying on our streets or living in subsidised quarters where their health can be monitored and where therapy is available. Currently the cost of the crisis assistance associated with these individuals adds up to more than it would cost to simply provide humane and rational support services.

A social policy regarding prevention, diagnosis and support for all those who have been suffering ongoing damage from the effects of any drug being currently abused within our society would seem to be a minimum starting point.

The HEMP Party seeks to raise the awareness of Australians regarding the responsible use of alcohol. We will be happy to provide your efforts with any support we can.

HEMP on Energy

HEMP is committed to assisting Aussies to be able to live a low impact and environmentally friendly lifestyle. We listen to the scientific community and are saddened by the reality that the planet is warming. We are horrified that our current leadership (on both sides of the aisle) seem intent on using the future of our planet as a political football.

HEMP is in favour of an emissions trading scheme which encompasses all commercial carbon polluters in our country. This carbon scheme must price carbon at a realistic level sufficient to encourage not only the diminution of carbon emissions but also the uptake of renewable energy sources.

HEMP considers the broad scale transmission of electricity using traditional electric grid technology to be an archaic and outmoded form of energy delivery. HEMP encourages local generation of energy using renewable and eco-friendly power generation technologies.

HEMP considers it the role of the government to act on behalf of the citizenry and the environment instead of on behalf of large energy generation and distribution companies. The Australian Government must provide tax relief for those who incorporate eco-friendly energy generation systems in their new or existing houses.

HEMP considers it an essential role of government to encourage and fund research and development into wave and tidal power, hot rock geothermal technologies, solar cell technologies, wind generation technologies, small scale hydro and water wheel technologies, and other eco-friendly and renewable energy generation methodologies and technologies.

HEMP considers that we must, as a society, encourage less energy intensive modes of manufacture and industrial development. The government should reward those at the forefront of more efficient energy use with taxation relief.

HEMP encourage Aussies to withdraw from the current highly partisan and partial debate relating to reducing our carbon emissions and rather engage this topic with an open mind and following a careful consideration of the scientific evidence currently available.

James Moylan,
Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party.

Campaign material and information

http://australianhempparty.com/contact/candidates

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