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The Green Party Just Got Greener
By Hempology | June 11, 2007
Herald Sun, Australia
Sun, 10 Jun 2007
Chris Tinkler and Liam Houlihan
GREENS’ CANNABIS SHAME
THE GREENS’ chief policy strategist in Victoria, Australia has admitted she helped organize a cannabis festival.
Freja Leonard, chief of staff to Victorian Greens MP Greg Barber, used to be a coordinator at Mardi Grass, Nimbin’s pot celebration.
Mothers of overdose victims are calling for Ms Leonard to resign and say the revelation raises major questions over Mr Barber’s judgment.
The illegal festival features widespread drug-taking, nudity and the Hemp Cup – a judging section designed to find the best marijuana.
Ms Leonard refused to say whether she had taken any illegal drugs during her stay in Nimbin.
“The lifestyle choices I have made in the past are irrelevant. That is none of your business,” she said.
It has also emerged that Ms Leonard was a speaker at a rally outside a court in Lismore, NSW, calling for anti-drug laws to be scrapped.
Her appearance was heralded in a 2001 issue of the online magazine Weed Witches.
Jillian Parker, whose daughter Janelle died of a drug overdose at 15, said: “This woman should be dismissed.
“Drugs ruin lives and those of the drug users’ extended families, and cannabis is rightly illegal.
“They must have known her background. It really raises questions about the Green Party.”
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