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| Posted by: Seattle Zen
- [86541617] Sun, Aug 12, 2007, 14:30
It's that time of year again. This year's event promises to be grand, lots of speakers and bands. Yeah, you aren't going to confuse the lineup with Bonaroo or Coachella, but it's free, absolutely free.
Hey, you can become one of Hempest's friends on MySpace.
I will be moderating a panel on Sunday from 2:25-3:05 called Legal Issues for Cannabis Consumers. It's going to be great. |
| | | 1 | Seattle Zen
ID: 5744182
Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 12:20
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Wow, front page of the paper!
Where there's smoke, there's Hempfest
If anything, Seattle's marijuana laws have been reformed somewhat since Hempfest's inception.
A month after the 2003 Hempfest, Seattle voters passed an initiative making the investigation, arrest and prosecution of marijuana offenses, when the drug was intended for adult personal use, the lowest law enforcement priority
Travel guru stands firm on war and weed
It is Rick Steves' deep, internationally informed opposition to this country's criminalizing of personal marijuana use that will send him to the Hempfest stage.
"I'm not going to sit at (Edmonds') Fifth and Main streets and smoke a joint," Steves told me. "But 800,000 people in the U.S. were arrested last year for marijuana while, in Berne (Switzerland) they're in public, smoking and playing backgammon and not bothering anyone. It (criminal prosecution) forces people into the street to deal with scary people. It's just so wrong."
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| | | 2 | biliruben
ID: 4911361723
Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 12:26
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You there today, Zen? Gots the boy and looking for an outing.
Seems like wholesome family activity to me.
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| | | 3 | Seattle Zen
ID: 5744182
Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 22:40
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Sorry I didn't run into you. Great weather until about 3:30pm, a little rain. Huge crowd, just huge.
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| | | 4 | biliruben
ID: 4911361723
Sun, Aug 19, 2007, 00:10
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Yeah - didn't get down today.
Might pass through tomorrow on my bike on the way to the Ms.
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| | | 6 | Doug
ID: 113132214
Sun, Aug 19, 2007, 13:32
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In the article it says the sun was shining... in Seattle! I checked, and no, I wasn't reading The Onion...
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| | | 7 | biliruben
ID: 4911361723
Sun, Aug 19, 2007, 13:41
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It's raining now, if that makes the world seem a more sane place!
Please don't move here. It rains all the time and that large breasted woman is just visiting from California. And no, pot doesn't grow on trees here either!
Our housing prices are high enough.
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| | | 8 | Seattle Zen
ID: 86541617
Mon, Aug 27, 2007, 10:34
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Notes from Hempfest. By FRED GARDNER
In what European country do people smoke more marijuana, per capita, than in the U.S.? No, it's not Holland, it's the Czech Republic. Travel writer Rick Steves threw that surprising fact into his talk Sunday at the Seattle Hempfest. He had just come back from two months in Europe where, he said, "a joint causes as much excitement as a can of beer. It's just not a big deal." Steves lives in nearby Edmond, WA, from whence he runs his flourishing guidebook business.
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| | | 9 | Seattle Zen
ID: 86541617
Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 23:44
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This wouldn't happen at Seattle Hempfest: Keith Stroup arrested for smoking pot at Boston Freedom Rally.
R. Keith Stroup, 63, founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and Rick Cusick, 53, an editor at High Times magazine, were charged with possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. “We were smoking a joint behind the booth here,” Stroup said
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| | | 10 | Perm Dude
ID: 43825178
Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 09:28
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Zen, is this commenter right?
It seems that the granularity necessary to tell whether pot growing is occuring is very detailed indeed. And surely that's not enough for a warrant in the US, anyway?
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| | | 11 | Seattle Zen
ID: 86541617
Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 10:28
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Yes, the police certainly have used these thermal imaging cameras to hunt for indoor grow-ops. The lights in these grow-ops create a lot of heat and are a give away when viewed from above.
In WA, our Supreme Court has ruled that the police cannot use these infrared cameras to hunt for grow-ops because they said that the heat was created inside the home and to look at it was a violation of the WA State Constitution's right to privacy. Outside of WA, many warrants have been signed based on infrared cameras on helicopters.
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| | | 12 | c_lide
ID: 5770274
Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 17:30
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Hey, Zen
Hope you gonna make it to the Dept. of Health workshop down there in Vancouver http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/medical-marijuana/MtgLoc.htm
Sorry for the late notice (it starts in like 30 minutes). I'm hoping you already knew about it?
I went to the workshop at the Seattle Central Library last Monday 9/10. It was from 1-5, but had to leave @ about 3pm to go to work.......
Some pretty good public commentary--Steve Sarich in paticular was very good. He brought along a tomato plant, put it on the desk, and asked the DOH people to try and predict how many ounces it would ultimately produce, to illustrate the problem of trying to define a "60-day supply". Sarich said he would be attending all 4 workshops to be held in WA state.
Another excellent speaker was a UW grad student, Sunil Aggarwal. He is doing research directly pertaining to the definition of the 60-day supply. His latest work came out on 9-11-07 (He gave the DOH an advance copy at the workshop on 9-10). It is available at medscape.com You gotta register to see it, but it is very good.
Anyway, hope you make it to that workshop today--last one is tommorrow in Yakima! These are just the workshops, though. I saw on the timeline at the Seattle workshop that there will be public hearings held down the road.
clyde
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