The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party has invited members to an early AGM on September 11 to discuss a name change to Legalise Cannabis.

HEMP party president Michael Balderstone

The name change is aimed at clearing up confusion as hemp farming is now legal in Australia and to detach the party from the word ‘marijuana’ — a term coined by prohibitionists in the US in the 1930s. 

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