Every year, the small town of Nimbin in New South Wales, Australia, hosts a unique event: the Nimbin MardiGrass, a peaceful, colorful, and rebellious demonstration advocating for the legalization of cannabis.
The 2025 MardiGrass takes place as tradition dictates during the first weekend of May, bringing together activists, growers, artists, patients, legal experts, and curious onlookers. For over 30 years, the march and festival have transformed Nimbin into the beating heart of Australia's cannabis culture, blending protest, celebration, and civil disobedience.
The event includes:
🌱 Hemp Olympix (cannabis-themed competitions)
🎤 Talks and debates on legalization, medicine, and justice
🎶 Concerts and artistic performances
🚩 The traditional Big Joint Parade, where hundreds march with a giant symbolic "joint" through the town's streets
In a country where cannabis is legal only for medical use and partially decriminalized, MardiGrass continues to highlight the abuses of prohibition, the criminalization of users, and the urgent need for a radical legal reform.
Clorophobia closely observes and supports events like this, which combine activism and creativity in defending the most criminalized plant on the planet. Because the herb remembers. And every step is a spark of freedom.
Link (when the site is active):
🔗 www.nimbinmardigrass.com
