For 13 years, police have tolerated Nimin's Annual Mardi-grass Pot Festival, where revelers behave as if the herb is not prohibited.
Enough! thundered the area's new top cop, threatening that this year's gathering would be policed by a force oc 200 to enforce even minor breaches of the drug laws.
Was he kidding? How would the hippies react? Could there be a riot at the 2006 Nimbin Mardi-Grass.