Michael Balderstone

Michael Taylor Balderstone is a cannabis rights activist and leader.[1] President of the Nimbin Hemp Embassy and leader of the Legalise Cannabis Australia Party (formerly the Help End Marijuana Prohibition Party).[2]

Michael Balderstone
OrganizationNimbin Hemp Embassy
Known forCannabis rights leader
Political partyLegalise Cannabis Australia

Michael grew up in the country and was sent to boarding school at a young age which he found "traumatizing".[3] As an adult Michael left a successful career as a stockbroker in search of deeper meaning in his life and moved to Nimbin in the late 1980s.[4] Nimbin is a small town in New South Wales commonly known as Australia's cannabis counterculture capital. Michael describes Nimbin as "a refugee camp from the war on drugs".[5] Nimbin is also home to the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, the Legalise Cannabis Party, the annual MardiGrass cannabis law reform rally and formerly the HEMP Museum where Michael has done much of his work.[6]

Sources
  1. "This is Nimbin: inside the "refugee camp for the war on drugs"". SBS News. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  2. "Nimbin Hemp Embassy president Michael Balderstone - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". mobile.abc.net.au. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  3. "Eden-Monaro by-election 2020". HEMP Party. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  4. "Mr Michael Balderstone – UIC". Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  5. "This is Nimbin: inside the "refugee camp for the war on drugs"". SBS News. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  6. "There's a 'buzz' in Nimbin as MardiGrass turns 25". The Daily Telegraph. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
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