The Australian Marijuana Party was an Australian political party in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Its focus was to campaign for the legalisation of
marijuana
Cannabis (), commonly known as marijuana (), weed, pot, and ganja, List of slang names for cannabis, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant. Native to Central or South Asia, cannabis has ...
. It ran candidates in several state and federal elections, although none were elected.
It was founded by Jim Billington,
and ran candidates including independent journalist JJ McRoach and cannabis advocate Gwenda Woods.
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Legalise Cannabis Australia
Legalise Cannabis Australia (LCA), also known as the Legalise Cannabis Party (LCP) and formerly the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party, is a Single-issue politics, single-issue Australian political party. It has a number of policies tha ...
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Cannabis in Australia
Cannabis is a plant used in Australia for recreational, medicinal and industrial purposes. Australia has one of the highest cannabis prevalence rates in the world. In 2022–23, 41% of Australians over the age of fourteen years had used ca ...
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New South Wales Government
The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the executive state government of New South Wales, Australia. The government comprises 11 portfolios, led by a ministerial department and supported by several agencies. Th ...
About NSW: The Australian Marijuana Party Bag
Defunct political parties in Australia
Cannabis political parties of Australia
Single-issue political parties in Australia
Political parties established in the 1970s
1970s establishments in Australia
Political parties disestablished in the 1980s
1980s disestablishments in Australia
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