Our federal government is about to make drastic changes to the federal drug laws, which will include making thousands of plants illegal to possess. This will include most of our beautiful Wattles, most of our ornamental garden cacti, and many other medicinal and ritual plants. We are trying to push GetUp to pick this as their next campaign. Please go here and vote:
Each GetUp member can allocate up to 10 votes to causes.

This it the short link:
http://bit.ly/eVbxfW

GetUp is extremely successful at running campaigns and does not shy away from High Court challenges.

The detail of the proposed law is that it will criminalise:

* all plants that contain DMT ie:our beautiful wattles(our national emblem!)
* all plants that contain mescaline ie:most of our ornamental cactus
* Catha edulis
* all Brugmansia species
* all Datura species: adored by proud gardners everywhere for their beautiful flower

This will make criminals out of almost every person who has Wattles growing in their backyard as many contains DMT in small quantities. It will also cover hundreds of cactus species that contain traces of mescaline, including most of the popular ornamentals such as Echinopsis and Mammillaria. This law will criminalise more than half of australian cactus collections.

Most stupidly of all it will cover the popular ornamental Angels trumpets and the widespread weed Jimson weed.
By this time next year the weeds in your garden could be just as criminal as having Cannabis plants growing there. if you have 50 illegal plants in your garden you are facing a jail sentence and a federal drugs conviction.

These laws are based on ignorance and stupidity and must be stopped. if you are not prepared to write your own submission to the federal attorney general by March then your best contribution will be to sign up to GetUp and vote for this matter to be taken up by them.