As the former hippie-trail resort town of Byron Bay bcomes fashionably popular
with mainstream people with respectable jobs and kids and such, the police have
acted to make it safe for suburban normalcy, and tackling the town's runaway
marijuana smoking problem.
This they are doing by cracking down on cannabis possession with
sniffer dog patrols, searching suspected drug fiends in the streets.
Naturally, the dreadlocked and drugfucked hippie types that have frequented
the formerly easygoing town for decades aren't pleased, and are planning
to protest what they consider an erosion of their civil liberties. (Or perhaps
the goal is to get them to move to Nimbin, thus making room for people with more
money to spend?)