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Here are my wiki project and article ideas. I may decide to proceed with a project or scrap it all together. Some article ideas may be personal wiki challenges, while others will welcome input from other wikipedians, however all projects and article ideas can be discussed here. The format of this section is not formal, but rather brain-storming, bulleted notes, and drafting of articles.

Cannabis in Australia

Wikipedians are invited to help expand on this project idea. Discussion.
For addition to one of the main articles:

  • Hemp (perhaps in the "History" section)
  • Cannabis (perhaps under the section "Aspects of Cannabis production and use")
  • Cannabis (drug) cultivation (maybe creating a section "History of Cultivatiing Cannabis(drug)")
  • Sir Joseph Banks (perhaps an addition to introduction that cannabis was first introduced to Australia by Joseph Banks - historical importance "Hunter Valley crop was intimately linked with the founding of Australia")(quoted from forum link)

Further reading

Campbell, Dr. Francis. 1846. A Treatise on the Culture of Flax and Hemp Sydney.

Draft article text

The origin of cannabis cultivation and use in Australia began with acclaimed botanist Sir Joseph Banks who arranged to have hemp seed sent to Australia from East India for the production of sails, uniforms, oakum, and rope.[1] "The British government encouraged the hemp industry with bounties, grants of land, and free seed in all its colonies." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link) In 1803 Governer King wrote to Joseph Banks stating, "From a pint of hemp-seed, sent from India in 1802, I have now sown 10 acres for Government. A specimen of the rope is round the box that Cayley sends you, which I have desired may be carefully preserved. It grows with the utmost luxuriance, and is generally from 6 to 10 feet in height." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link)

The reference to "hemp-seed, sent from India" suggests that Governer King was in fact growing C. indica rather than C. sativa (preferred for its fibre quality) for his hemp production, as a distinction between cannabis varieties was yet to be made.

"Cannabis cigarettes, known variously as Joy’s Cigarettes or Cannadonna cigarettes, were also widely advertised in colonial Australia as a cure for asthma." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link)

On November 16, 1964 media reported that "the dreaded sex drug, marihuana" had been discovered growing wild along a 65km stretch of the Hunter River. [citation needed] It is now believed this prolific crop had resulted from colonial cultivation by the "Bell brothers — Archibald Bell and William Sims Bell — the first white settlers of Singleton in the Upper Hunter in 1823." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link) "Their father, Archibald Bell, believed that Australia should be a colony for the production of hemp and argued this case before the Bigge Royal Commission in 1819." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link) "In those days the view that Australia should be a hemp colony was widespread."(quoted from forum link)

Where historically the cultivation of hemp had been important to the colonisation of Australia, the Hunter Valley discovery became a catalyst for marijuana prohibition in the country.

The Maitland Mercury, a local newspaper, revealed that “the plant did not need any special preparation. Flowering tops of the female plant or the leaves could be cut and dried and used immediately.” [citation needed] (quoted from forum link) Emboldened with curiosity, people began to search out the wild Hunter Valley cannabis for recreational use.

"The day after the story of the Hunter Valley crop broke, Inspector Blake of the Maitland Police warned “would-be marihuana hunters” that they would be charged with “possession of a narcotic”. As the Maitland Mercury reported: ‘Police fear that Maitland’s wild marihuana will fall into the hands of narcotic agents or teenagers “out for kicks.”’" [citation needed] (quoted from forum link)

"The day after the Hunter Valley crop was discovered, the NSW Department of Agriculture announced it would immediately begin a campaign of eradication: cannabis was classified as a noxious weed under the Local Government Act, and all hemp plants were to be destroyed." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link) The Customs Department eventually "estimated that 200 hectares of the Hunter Valley were heavily infested with cannabis, and the largest patch was over 40 hectares in size." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link)

Reports published by the Department of Customs and Excise confirm "farmers were being paid a bounty if they successfully dobbed in a weed raider." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link)

"The first busts of any size in Australia happened in the Hunter." [citation needed] (quoted from forum link)

Ultimately it took five years to exterminate the wild Hunter Valley crop [citation needed] in which time recreational use of cannabis became widespread over the east coast of Australia.

The eradication of the Hunter valley crop in the late 1960's meant recreational cannabis could only be sourced from international import of the drug or outdoor cultivation. In the 1980's indoor cultivation of cannabis for recreational use became popular in Australia.

"Now, the annual report of the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence states: "Domestic production of hydroponically grown cannabis appears to have reduced the demand for imported herbal cannabis."(source High Times link)

References

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