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Pot Group Settles for Two Day Festival

Politics   July 5, 2010 at 2:38 pm Josh Feit

The PI’s Chris Grygiel has the scoop: Hempfest is giving up its fight to have its annual pro-pot festival extended from two days to three.


  • Nancy Botwin

    the sooner groups like this fade into the background, the sooner we'll have legal pot.

    Seriously, we need the mayor of Agrestic to front this movement, not the dinosaurs shown in the picture accompanying this post!

  • Rob

    What a classy editorial decision to use that photo for this post. Maybe you have a future working for the Blethen family rag.

  • Nacy Botwin y el Alcalde

    You mean everyone at Hempfest doesn't look like that?

    Perhaps it would have been better to show the savvy organizers of the pro marijuana initiative, they were so ….competent…professional…..and in synch with the better known liberal unions and civil rights groups …..