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Back in the early seventies Nimbin became the alternative lifestyle capital of Australia. Many of the original communes are still set up today. In recent times Nimbin has become infamous for its annual Mardi Grass festival which celebrates marijuana use.
I interviewed Neil Pike, one of the original hippies to arrive in Nimbin in the 70s.
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NIMBIN NEW SOUTH WALES
Nimbin
Located in the hills of the Great Dividing Range of northern New South Wales, Australia, Nimbin's a small town of 500 people. It's as if small avenue of Amsterdam has been reconstructed in the middle of the mountains behind frontier style wooden facades.
Nimbin's located about 70 km west of Byron Bay, in rich lush, verdant rain forest. It's rugged hilly country, with some outstanding rock formation. The land has been cleared in the valleys for farmland . The land is highly fertile and great for horses and dairy cattle, as well as permaculture and self-sufficiency farming.
Early settlers quickly recognized its potential in the 1800s. They followed the red Cedar timber cutters, of the 1840s who cleared much of the first growth forest, transporting the timber by small steam railways, eastward. By the late 1800s the land was largely denuded of forest and was becoming settled by dairy and banana farmers. Early 1900s photographs show all a well-developed community in nimbin with telegraph office and church. By the 1960s, Nimbin was in decline, with an overproduction of milk. Business moved away from town and shops were empty, and up for sale at bargain prices. In 1973, Nimbin was chosen as the location for the Aquarius Festival, an annual event, attracting war protesters and hippies.
1973 footage of this event shows the sweeping nature of the town and the impact of the festival. Many of the hippies who visited the town chose to stay and communes were established. The festival became an annual event, attracting more and more counter culture adherents. The town has been described as the drug capital of Australia, a social experiment and an escapist subculture.
Certainly, a visit to nimbin today gives the impression of a hippie culture celebrating the use of marijuana, particularly with her annual Mardi Grass festival, which seeks iegalisation of marijuana. The fertile soils in the rugged hills around nimbin provide ample opportunity for growing marijuana with the town as a focus point for sales. The Mardi Gras's festival features, such events as rolling your own joint, the gigantic good medicine joint and bong and a prohibition protest rally with ganja faeries. The event occurs along a main street. The Nimbin Hemp Embassy provides drug information and implements. Nearby is the Nimbin Hemp Bar providing coffee and cake, located near the nimbin Museum tracing the rise of the counterculture in Nimbin.
With marijuana being illegal in Australia Nimbin is an obvious target for the police with particular police attention being paid to the annual Mardi Grass. Sniffer dogs are employed in and tourists to the town checked. Nimbin shops such as the hemp bar, and museum are periodically closed. In spite of their efforts, the drug culture endures. The police effort to rid Nimbin of marijuana is like trying to rid Queensland of bananas and business continues as usual. At least when the shopkeepers can get out of bed.
Nimbin remains an icon in Australia cultural history for the alternative lifestyle.
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Australian Street Walk - Nimbin Hippy Town
I go for a walk through a fairly famous town here in Australia called Nimbin. It is renowned for its hippy culture and for its ease of buying weed in the street.
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Inviting Richard Branson to Nimbin for Mardi Grass 2012
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NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY walk through.
I take a 4 min and 20 second walk through the Nimbin HEMP Embassy. The Embassy is Australia's hub of law reform and paked full of educational material plus just about anything you can imagine that is made from hemp. The Embassy is also where the Australian H.E.M.P Party office is located and where the annual MardiGrass protests are organized. The Embassy is open 10am till 5pm 7 days a week.