Network Against Prohibition (NAP) - NT Chapter

The Network Against Prohibition (NAP) is a group dedicated to promoting and protecting the health and human rights of illicit drug users around the globe as well as the rights of those living in communities in developing countries who rely on opium, coca, cannabis etc for their survival! NAP originally formed in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, however, an expansion is underway.



Welcome to www.napnt.org


This is the web-portal of the grassroots drug law-reform organisation, the Network Against Prohibition (NAP).

This web portal is provided as a resource for members of the NAP community affectionately known as 'Napatistas'.

NAP originally formed in Darwin in the Northern Territory (NT) , however, an expansion is underway.

To learn more about NAP click here

Regular Napatistas should know where they are going by now. To make navigation easier, most pages have the NAP site index in the column on the right hand side. If you haven't been to the site before, you might want to take the tour.

We encourage regular visitors to make a donation when they can. Your donations help to keep NAP rocking and help us to keep this resource online and up to date!

We hope you find this resource useful. Your feedback is encouraged and appreciated. Please contact us to let us know what you think.

Help us end the War on Drugs!


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Latest news from NAPNT

By now you may all be aware of Bronwyn Bishop’s latest foray into the world of electioneering, with her call to save the children of drug users.

This follows John Howard and Mal Brough’s election campaign/crusade to save the Aboriginal children from being thrown overboard by their families.

Bronwyn has now called for the children of drug users who are currently placed into foster care, while their parent/s rehabilitate, to be permanently adopted out should the parent/s not achieve rehabilitation within a set period of time.

ABC Radio Darwin ran the story on the afternoon "Drive" program on Tuesday 24th July and called upon the Network Against Prohibition to make a comment.

Fiona Clarke, NAP's harm reduction convenor, and peer educator, took this one and put forward a powerful comment which you can read and comment on here.

Date with a Magistrate

Rob.F. due to face Darwin Magistrates Court Sep 4th, at 10:00am, charged with possessing 0.5g of cannabis plant material.

To keep up to date with this and other news from NAPNT click here




Current Campaigns Bulletin Board

Free the Bali Nine!

Victims of an Australian Federal Police PR exercise?


The Bali Nine ... from top to bottom rows, & left to right:
Matthew Norman, 20, Renae Lawrence, 29, Myuran Sukumaran, 26,
Andrew Chan, 23, Scott Rush, 21, Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, 29,
Martin Stephens, 31, Michael Czugaj, 21 and Si Yi Chen, 22.

To read more about, and show your support
for the Bali Nine click here .


Plea to prevent the execution of
Basil Omar

Click here or below to view a copy of an email circulated to the member organisations of ENCOD, a European umbrella group concerned with the failings of international drug policy. NAPNT would encourage you to send letters, either as individuals or as organisations, using the contacts and information provided to plea for the life of Basil Omar.
17 years on death row, now facing imminent execution, for a kilo of cannabis - think about it, it is just so wrong.

Dear friends...

We encourage you to copy this letter, add your own name to it, then send it to the corresponding addresses.

Add you voice to the outrage!



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From: Cannabis Culture Magazine Date: 05 Aug 2007, 12:46 PM



On the morning of Friday, August 17, CraigX Rubin will plead for his life in front of Judge Mary J. Stroebel in Los Angeles Superior Court at 210 West Temple, Dept. 131, on the 15th Floor.

On Friday, August 3, Craig X was convicted of possessing marijuana with intent to sell and aiding and abetting the sale of marijuana at The Temple 420, the beloved centerpiece of Craig X’s serious religious life.

The maximum sentence for this is 7 years. The Prosecuting attorney is seeking 4 years and 10 months.

Read on

If you happen to be in the region on the date, why not drop into the court to show your support.

Update:- CraigX Rubin setenced to 90 days jail, suspended pending appeal.


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From: The Official National NORML Date: 17 Sep 2007, 03:07 PM

NORML's Founder Keith Stroup and the Editor of High Times Magazine Rick Cusick were arrested together for a minor marijuana violation at the Boston Freedom Rally Saturday September 15th.

An undercover Boston Police Officer approached the pair, who were in possession of a very small amount of cannabis, described as "half of a joint." They were held briefly in an on-site police processing tent on the Boston Common.

Stroup and Cusick were released after receiving a summons for a Class D misdemeanor. Both were allowed to speak on stage at the Freedom Rally later in the day.

The arrest of two of the most outspoken and open marijuana advocates underscores the essential need for reform as almost 800,000 American marijuana smokers are needlessly arrested each year.

Crowds for the Boston Freedom Rally were estimated at 8,000-10,000. There were just over 60 marijuana arrests reported by police at the event.

Boston Undercover NARCS escorting a young arrestee

This is one of just two marijuana violation arrests for Stroup and the first for Cusick.

Stroup said. “I’m sure the police would rather be chasing real criminals. We’re both productive, hard-working taxpayers.”

“I’ve been waiting 33 years to get arrested,” said Cusick, chuckling. “When it happened I was calm, like a monk. I told them I’d call my lawyer, but he got arrested with me.”

The 18th annual MASS/CANN NORML Freedom Rally was well attended. There was light rain for the first few hours of the event, but by 3PM there was warm, fall sunshine. The large crowd counted down to 4:20 and expressed their loud support for marijuana legalization.

Audio of the speakers along with music from the event as well as an exclusive post-arrest interview with Stroup and Cusick will air on NORML's Daily Audio Stash Podcast beginning Monday September 17th.


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From: EURODRUG - INFORMATION LIST OF THE EUROPEAN COALITION FOR JUST AND EFFECTIVE DRUG POLICIES.
Date: 18 Sep 2007.

Dear friends of freedom,

Please do what you can to raise active awareness of André Fürst's conviction and imprisonment in Switzerland. André Fürst is the founder of Chanvre Info, a Cannabis agriculture and manufacturing demonstration project in Morat Murten, Switzerland. A sincere gentleman and father, André and his son André, Jr. are dear friend's who have been generous supporters of my film in Europe and Mexico. André Fürst deserves international praise for his courage, vision and contributions to the common good -- not prison.

André Fürst has done in Switzerland, what we could be doing in California by next spring. As the California industrial hemp bill, AB 684 ripens in the governor's hands, the benefits of hemp agriculture and the therapeutic benefits of 'marijuana' are being repeatedly proven. The urgency of growing Cannabis is only becoming more acute as environment, economy, and social structures continue to fail. AB 684 Ref - norml

It is simply a shameless violation of human rights, in the name of corporate protectionism, for government to interfere with the cultivation of any "herb bearing seed." (Genesis 1:29) The jurisdiction of the court has been extended far beyond moral accountability, inducing essential resource scarcity, while enriching the black market and increasing hard drug use, in a counter-productive effort to crimp the free agricultural and industrial markets.

The following letter was written by the Steering Committee of ENCOD, of which André Fürst is the director, and is passed on to you all with the invitation to engage the effort to secure brother Fürst's immediate release.

Further, I trust that the Swiss authorities will protect the health and safety of people at the Chanvre Info demonstration project. The following link is a recent account of attacks on the farm by an armed gang. click here

Please see here for additional information about André Fürst and the incredible strides in Cannabis agriculture and industry he has achieved, with the highest levels of product excellence, always demonstrating global cooperation and international statesmanship with a unique personal flair.

Please join with me in calling for André Fürst's immediate release, by sending word to the Canton of Fribourg, that the world is observing the suppression the Cannabis industry. We can begin coordinating ahead of the curve for a change, to plant hemp this Spring. It's the right thing to do, and regardless of what laws are passed at the state level, we have federal, Bill of Rights, Article One, individual freedom of religion, also afforded by international human rights treaties, if each of us claims it for ourselves, and each other.

With international Aloha, and a prayer for peace,

Paul
California Cannabis Ministry







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Most people that come to the site want to know the latest news from the Northern Territory . If you want to know the latest news on our campaign or the latest additions to the site, click on the latest NAP news link. There is a separate link if you are interested in the latest archived Northern Territory drug news .

Napatistas undertake activities on two levels; political campaigns/community education with the general community and harm reduction/peer education activities with people who use currently illicit drugs. To find out more about us try the about NAP link. We are readily contactable by phone, email or snail mail and you can join our yahoogroup getting access to our chatroom. This way, you can ensure that you have the latest news on our campaign.

Journalists generally go straight to our media alerts page , here you can find our latest media releases and our media release archives. We regularly find our way into the news and this is recorded on our site . Letters to the editor written by members of the NAP are often published .

We also have campaign pages which let you know how you can get involved in the NAP campaign. At this stage we have a campaign page for the 'drug house' laws and we now have a new 'petrol-sniffing' page.

We also have a campaign page for the Bali Nine .

Sometimes Napatistas write articles on the campaign or on the drug war/institutionalised racism and you can find these on our main articles index page . We have an extensive links page that we are sure you will find useful and a diary that is kept up to date with details of court cases (many of our activists are facing criminal charges arising from protests), smoke-ins and other events. Make sure you check the diary every time you come to the site so you don't miss any events, especially our court cases.

Many NAP posters have been published online. Have a look which posters you can download.

In August 2004 we launched The ARSE Foundation , an area of our site dedicated to the Retractable Syringe Hoax. If you are just looking for images or pictures, try our image gallery , and if you can't find what you are looking for you can use our search facility to search napnt.org or the entire web or have a look at our sitemap . We even have some of our court transcripts online .

For those of you who understand syndication, we provide site feeds (xml) for all of our blogs.

We don't receive any grants from the government and rely on our community to keep the campaign going.

We are always in need of financial assistance to cover legal costs in our regular court appearences, and for general expenses.

Please DONATE to help us win the fight.

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