The two activists allegedly responsible for last year's 4/20 stunt, during which pro-cannabis messages were projected onto the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, have launched a new campaign.
With the NSW election in March approaching, cannabis entrepreneur Will Stolk and content creator Alec Zammitt have purchased digital billboard space across 11 sites in Western Sydney to push back against the state's drug-driving laws.
Financed through a crowdfunding campaign on MyCause, the billboards carry the message "End evidence-free RDT," challenging laws that expose medicinal cannabis patients to drug-driving charges simply for returning a positive THC test — with no requirement to prove actual impairment.
A press release from the duo — who campaign under the name "Who are we hurting?" — said: "These billboards comment on the lack of evidence proving the safety benefits of the current legislation and will be on display around Sydney in the lead-up to the NSW election on March 25."
Four of the billboard placements are along the Great Western Highway, with the remainder spread across the Bankstown area.
Zammitt, whose background is in experimental guerrilla marketing, said he assembled a modest crowdfunded budget from hundreds of individual donors to finance the campaign, titled 'End discrimination against medicinal cannabis patients in drug-driving legislation'.
Both activists are scheduled to return to court in August, following their arrest on April 20, 2022 at Sydney's Park Hyatt hotel.
They are alleged to have used high-powered laser beams to project the phrases "Who are we hurting?" and "420" onto the sails of the Opera House and one of the pylons of the Harbour Bridge.
Footage of the projection has attracted 16,000 views on YouTube.
Separately, new regulations took effect in South Australia on Monday that could result in medicinal cannabis users losing their licence on the spot.
In Victoria, meanwhile, Legalise Cannabis MPs have introduced legislation that would exempt patients from the state's drug-driving laws.
