The ABC: Messing with our heads!

Members of the Darwin-based drug law-reform organisation NAP, the Network Against Prohibition, will celebrate the network’s third birthday this Saturday at their 21st Community Smoke-in for human rights, a protest against the US led war on drugs.

The event comes hot on the heels of an ABC television documentary, labelled as blatant anti-cannabis propaganda by drug law-reform campaigners in Darwin.

NAP spokesperson Gary Meyerhoff said “Working for the ABC is a lot like smoking dope.”

“The harder you suck, the higher you get.”

In what the ABC’s 4 Corners program called “a wake-up call to a disturbing new trend,” reporter Janine Cohen interviewed doctors and so-called ‘drug specialists’, all with a vested interest in the Cannabis debate.

The doctors, representing big pharmaceutical companies, are determined to medicate another generation of young Australians, while the ‘drug specialists’ are keen to tap State and Federal funding dollars for treatment of ‘cannabis disorders’.

The smoke-in, the first for 2005, kicks off at 12 noon in Darwin’s Raintree Park and will be a perfect opportunity for the community to express their outrage at this shocking display of propaganda by the ABC.

For more information call NAP on 8942 0570, mobile 0415 16 2525 or checkout our website. The smoke-in poster can be downloaded here. A summary of the 4 Corners report can be viewed here.