Before we had a medical marijuana law, before pot was the lowest priority for Seattle police, before the city attorney stopped all pot prosecutions, before every elected official in city hall and in the city’s delegation to Olympia said they supported legalizing pot, and before a well-funded initiative was running to legalize marijuana, there was Hempfest. That’s where it started. This year, the largest pot-culture shindig in America gets even bigger, picking up a third day and filling Friday through Sunday with bands, political stumping, and wonderful stoned strolling. (Myrtle Edwards Park, 3130 Alaskan Way, www.hempfest.org, 10 am–8 pm, free)

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  4. If your only reason for not going is the size of the crowd then you should know that a food vendor I ran into today thinks that adding that extra day helped create a little more elbow room yesterday. Still not going myself. Did that enough in the 90’s, and worked for a vendor the last 2 years. The novelty of smoking pot in public wore off. And I could do without most of the people who show up to that thing. There just aren’t enough young hippie girls to make up for all the Juggalo’s and other lowlife there.

  6. After careful deliberation while stuck in traffic on the way to ballard, we determined that juggalos and hempfesters are the same, sans the makeup.

  8. is a 4 foot tall Dr. Suess hat with rainbow skulls required to get past the gate? Is that the part that makes it like MLK or Ghandi?

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