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Rainbow Serpent Festival is Australia’s premier electronic music and alternative lifestyle festival. It’s where around 20,000 Australian and global psychedelic citizens come together to share, laugh, dance and be very, very merry indeed. The following is our totally biased suggestions of two events you should etch into your memory to attend, once the beautiful chaos […]
The following is a re-post from a blog I (Nick Wallis) started while working at a commercial radio station in regional Victoria. It was originally posted on the 20th of May 2011. It seems appropriate to re-post it now, even though it is raw and probably a little ranty. It includes a bit of a […]
Enpsychedelia joined 3CR Community Radio on the 5th of July in 2015. Since then, we’ve interviewed dozens of people from Australia and around the world on a wide range of topics, from harm reduction to psychedelic science. We started meeting up after the show most weeks with listeners to discuss the issues and are on […]
The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) is Australia’s peak organisation for ensuring that people who use drugs are represented in policy about them. Their funding is currently under threat by the Turnbull Government and they could be closed down by mid-2016 if drastic changes don’t happen NOW. You can help. Read the […]
The Victorian Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Bill 2015 has not yet passed the Victorian Upper House. Parliament has completed sitting for the year and will return on February 9th 2016. The Bill has been drafted as part of Victoria’s Ice Action Plan which in turn was created off the back of a largely exaggerated […]
There has been a flurry of activity in the media on drug testing over the past couple of weeks. The attention has largely been driven by the unfortunate deaths of a couple of Stereosonic punters. These people were at these events to have fun and enjoy the music and instead lost their lives unnecessarily. On […]
We’ve been campaigning against the introduction of a piece of legislation in Victoria, Australia which seeks to ban the possession and distribution of certain information. The whole thing has been introduced off the back of a largely falsified ‘ice epidemic’ and is a typical example of ‘tough on drugs’ policies that have never worked to […]
Yesterday, we told you that the Victorian Government would like to ban (certain) books. Today I’ll tell you a little bit more about the nonsense justification that is being used to drive the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Bill 2015. If moral entrepreneurs and interest groups manage to whip up enough fear and anxiety, they […]
The following piece is published as an act of civil disobedience to a Bill before Victorian parliament which seeks to ban the sharing of certain information. The information here in and of itself is nothing new. You can find information like this and far more detailed versions all over the internet, at websites like the […]
Ethan Nadelmann knows how to make an audience feel passionate and unified. That’s the sort of quality you’d expect in the Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a nationwide non-profit organisation in the United States, with the following stated vision and mission: In the opening plenary of the 2015 conference, Ethan focused on our […]
In April 2016, the UN General Assembly Special Session meeting on the current drug law treaties which require all member states to pursue prohibition will be looking at alternative options. The last meeting on these UN treaties promised a wide discussion and potential for reform, but ended up with the motto, “A drug free world: […]
I’ve been in the US for one week now. My partner, Kula and six month old daughter, Acacia are both with me and we spent our first week in New York City. I’m here to attend the Drug Policy Alliance’s 2015 International drug law reform conference. I’ll be recording interviews for Enpsychedelia while here, as […]
Saturday 5th of December from 2pm at the State Library of Victoria [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Dtr08WCFU[/youtube] DrugLawed details how New Zealand got rolled up in the US-led Drug War along with 183 other countries. Over the past 100 years the US has forced its fatally flawed model of drug prohibition on almost every country on earth. Four decades […]
On Sunday the 20th of September, around 100 people gathered at The Fitzroy Beer Garden to talk about magic mushrooms. The 920 Coalition helped to spore events around the world, held on the 20th of September to celebrate the psilocybin mushroom, illuminate the current research and highlight their role in society and the health care […]
Hi there! Ok, this one is a little personal. So let me introduce myself properly. (SKIP FORWARD IF YOU ALREADY KNOW / TL:DR) My name is Nick Wallis and I produce Enpsychedelia. I used to work in commercial radio and volunteered in community radio long ago. Back in 2012, while studying a Bachelor of Politics, […]
