NSW hippies descend on Sydney this Saturday hauling their giant inflatable joint to that holy shrine to beer and skittles, the Rooty Hill RSL.
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With major parties endorsing a trial of medicinal cannabis, the RSL is the setting for a medical cannabis seminar.
"We've been holding these gatherings in Nimbin town hall and been surprised by the turn out," said the president of Nimbin's HEMP Embassy, Michael Balderstone.
It is Balderstone's great regret that, in the first election that dope has been endorsed by straight politicians, his Australian HEMP Party forgot to register itself as a political party.
At any rate, two America drug campaigners, Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris, will be at Rooty Hill to tell how legalisation of medical cannabis in Colorado and 23 other US states has afforded the drug a hitherto unknown respectability.
Other speakers include, doctors, patients and Crescent Head dope grower Tony Bower.
Mike Baird and Luke Foley have prior appointments but Greens' John Kaye will attend. Organisers are charging a $10 entry to pay the RSL.
Balderstone said they planned on inflating the "Big Joint" outside Alan Jones 2GB studio on Friday to get the old radio rabble rouser on board. "The RSL venue made us think of how good pot is for post-traumatic stress disorder. Surely that's right up Alan's alley," he said.
House of a card
Peter Jones, the lead upper house candidate for the No Land Tax party, has emerged as a potential kingmaker should his prime donkey vote spot on the ballot paper give him the balance of power in NSW.
But Jones is no newcomer to the political game.
He was the wit behind a constant source of amusement for NSW politics tragics, the Fake Eddie Obeid Twitter account, but sadly it was suspended last January.
It appears to have been replaced by another, The Real Fake Eddie @HonEddieObeidAO, which Twitter explains is a "parody account run by Joe Tripodi".
When asked if he was masquerading as Tripodi on Twitter, Jones reached for the Francis Urquhart dictum on House of Cards: "You might very well think that; BUT FOR LEGAL REASONS I couldn't possibly comment."
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