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Monday, July 5, 2010

City Hempfest Gives Up on Adding Third Day

Posted by on Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM

Organizers of the Seattle Hempfest are giving in to city pressure and scaling back plans for this year's festival. The group had applied for a permit to hold a three-day event on the downtown Waterftont—for what has been a two-day event since 2001—but was rejected by the city in June.

Hempfest filed an administrative appeal on June 24 in hopes of receiving a three-day permit. However, the City of Seattle responded by issuing an even more restrictive two-day permit draft. The producers of the event decided to resolve the issues over the permit. They believed that they were unlikely to win an administrative appeal in the City of Seattle and that there was not enough remaining time to both fight a lawsuit and produce an event scheduled for next month.

Hempfest remains concerned about the public’s safety and the effects of the city’s queuing plan on the crowd and surrounding neighborhood. The Seattle Police Department’s after-action report described the event as “at capacity” on Saturday of the 2009 festival. “I like what the city has proposed,” says John Davis, chairman of the Board of Directors of Seattle Events... "The only option that presents itself is to turn away attendees, which violates their constitutional right of freedom of assembly.”

The event is now slated for August 21 and 22.

 

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Having just re-watched the "420" episode of "Family Guy", someone should organize a flashmob performance of "Bag of Weed" at Hempfest.
Posted by maeveh on July 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM
gloomy gus 2
Yosemitebear is sad the event won't be extended, but invites everyone to come back with him to his house in the hills on the third day, so he can show them the glory of a double rainbow, especially after the first minute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5IC…
Posted by gloomy gus on July 5, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Vince 3
@2 Thanks gloomy gus. You briefly shaved thirty years off my life.
Posted by Vince on July 5, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Cato the Younger Younger 4
Every day's Hempfest at Cato's!!!
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on July 5, 2010 at 4:03 PM
gloomy gus 5
@3, you're welcome. And if you've let the glory of Double Rainbow sink in, you may be ready for the joy of Masonvv's Auto-Tune response:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g0yZDMBX…
Posted by gloomy gus on July 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM
emor 6
Thanks, gloomy, that made my day.
Posted by emor on July 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Matt from Denver 7
Gus is rapidly becoming my favorite slogger.
Posted by Matt from Denver on July 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Cynic Romantic 8
Gus, LMAO OMG!
Posted by Cynic Romantic on July 5, 2010 at 10:30 PM
gloomy gus 9
Oh yay, Sloggers! If ever I am lucky enough to be the first of us to find something choice, I will try to find a thread appropriate for it. In this case I lucked into the clips yesterday moments before Dominic posted this Hempfest news - the stars were aligned. I'll be back to poorly edited nobody-cares items soon enough, I fear, but I'm so glad you loved this as I did!
Posted by gloomy gus on July 6, 2010 at 8:52 AM

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