Slog - Comments on Down By the Bay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay For a $5 donation at the entrance to Hempfest, you got a green plastic necklace and a 32-page program with lots of words in it. Because of the way it was stapled, the program fell open to a two-page spread by Rick Steves, headlined “Why I Believe Marijuana Should Be Legal” and accompanied by a photo of Steves in a field in the Netherlands with some hilarious-looking cows. Steves is Marco Polo, basically. His career: taking trips and reporting back on them in travel guidebooks and on his PBS series. One of his favorite things to report back about European... Copyright 2008 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:59:46 -0800 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:31:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle The Drug War is going as well as the Iraq War.

both are a waste of money, resources, and people.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787385 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787385 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:24:46 -0800 Comment by link! The Rick Steves link is broken.

]]> link! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787387 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787387 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:27:28 -0800 Comment by Joey the Girl I've been reading about Hempfest all week, and I remember reading about it last year, and I'm wondering something (and maybe I passed over this) - how is it legal? Or rather, how do they manage to pull it off?

I don't live in Seattle, I've actually never been to Seattle. But the fact that this event can be held without getting hell from the police...that's a beautiful thing.

]]> Joey the Girl http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787396 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787396 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:34:18 -0800 Comment by Paulus On Saturday I witnessed a 15-year-old chug his dirty bongwater. There were a bunch of Juggalos roaming around, too. Someone was selling goat curry, then it started to rain. I left.

]]> Paulus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787397 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:34:42 -0800 Comment by JessB On April 20th (4/20) every year there is a pro-pot protest in front of the Winnipeg Legislature. Everyone spends all day in front of the building smoking weed. I've always wondered how these kinds of things were pulled off as well. Bless them.

]]> JessB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787399 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787399 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:44:42 -0800 Comment by j in sea Hempfest this year was fun!

Adults can get away with smoking pot there because of 2 things. 1) I-75 which almost decriminilizes up to about an ounce and a half (40 grams) and 2) also if cops gave tickets or arrested for smoking, they'd have to arrest or ticket just about EVERYONE. The cops there were pretty kewl and turned many a blind eye. They were looking for kids smoking, sellers of the pot, drunks and rowdy people mostly.

Seattle is GRrrreat!

]]> j in sea http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787448 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787448 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:18:01 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO I've never been to Seattle, but this is high (no pun intended) on the list of why I want to move. It rains joints only in my dreams.

Now, if someone could do something about that cost of living, maybe I'll actually make it happen...

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787453 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:23:33 -0800 Comment by thehim There weren’t any other interesting articles in the program, glossy and colorful as it was, so for fun (and hoping to find something to write my column about) I started scanning it for typos. Fewer than you’d expect for a booklet by stoners.

Like no one has ever said this about The Stranger.

]]> thehim http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787467 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787467 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:43:54 -0800 Comment by thehim There weren’t any other interesting articles in the program, glossy and colorful as it was, so for fun (and hoping to find something to write my column about) I started scanning it for typos. Fewer than you’d expect for a booklet by stoners.

Like no one has ever said this about The Stranger.

]]> thehim http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787485 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787485 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:11:27 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Mike in MO @ 7,

It's true, Seattle is somewhat pricey. May I suggest you look into Bellingham, Washington, if you'd like to move?

It's an awesome, laid back college town near the Canadian border. It's about two hours north of Seattle and 45 minutes south of Vancouver (Vansterdam) B.C.

The natural beauty there is stunning and there's a great mix of people due to the presence of Western Washington University. Plus, the cost of living is about half what it is in Seattle.

It reminds me a lot of Columbia, MO, or Fayetteville, AR, but without the scary religious people - yay!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingham_Washington

P.S. Olympia, Washington, also rocks, and it's just a hop, skip and a jump away from Seattle.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787523 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787523 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:59:57 -0800 Comment by Sean Missed Hempfest this weekend because I pedaled my bike up to Vancouver instead.

Talk about a cool city! Check out the vapor lounge tucked away in the back of the head shop next to the New Amsterdam Cafe. It was like hanging in a post-college stoner apartment, only there were vaporizers everywhere, and there was the hottest, grooviest, stoniest chick you've ever seen bringing you drinks, cleaning up after you, and demonstrating how to use the paraphernalia. And it's open all year around.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787535 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787535 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:10:28 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER I agree with Original Andrew. Bellingham is like a condensed Seattle, with a lot more hippies and weed. Plus, it's the gateway between Vancouver and Seattle in which all weed flows. Never had a hard time finding any.

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787614 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:25:50 -0800 Comment by VaNatalie It looks like the post doesn't include a link to the whole article, so here it is: http://www.ricksteves.com/about/pressroom/activism/marijuana.htm

]]> VaNatalie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787784 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/down_by_the_bay#c787784 Drugs Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:04:22 -0800 Comment by me Most of the appeal for me to smoke pot as a teenager was the fact that it was illegal.

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