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The Stranger

Hempfest, Seattle’s pioneering pot protest festival, is fighting for its future. After 26 years of sticking up for weed-law reform, the festival is facing mounting costs and shrinking incomes. This year’s festival will still happen August 18 to 20, but it will feature fewer stages, and future fests could be even smaller.

Lester Black is a former staff writer for The Stranger, where he wrote about Seattle news, cannabis, and beer. He is sometimes sober.