PRESS RELEASE - 30th November 2002

Drought Affects Police Harvest
Nimbin HEMP Embassy has received several calls since announcing a monitoring of police conduct during their pre Christmas cannabis eradication program. Initial reports have confirmed that the police haul is 90% down on last year's booty. "Police are flying lower than usual in an effort to find even small amounts around houses to achieve a quota", said Andrew Kavasilas, "our reports come from Wilson's Creek and Pretty Gully where the police helicopter has 'buzzed' ten metres above people's homes, it's real bully boy stuff." The ABC's internet poll reports that 77% of voters think the police should reconsider their yearly raids. "It doesn't make any sense for police to continually go against community sentiments. You can only fool some of the people some of the time, and they're the only people the police are interested in", said Kavasilas. In the meantime, window-shopping police are exercising a 'show of strength' in the village of Nimbin which has been under siege for two days prior to next week's impending helicopter campaign in the valley. It's pretty obvious that the drought, together with the continuing raids has driven cannabis growing indoors. In fact, the police have come all the way from Sydney, the biggest cannabis growing area in NSW.