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Seattle Protestival draws 150,000
Organizer Dominic Holden told the crowd that Hempfest this year wanted people "to come out of the closet on marijuana and admit that they are responsible marijuana users" and demand that they no longer be treated as criminals. "The war on drugs is a miserable war; it is a racist war," Seattle City Councilman Nick Licata told the crowd on Saturday.
Speaking from six stages scattered along the length of Myrtle
Edwards Park, local and national drug reformers included Keith
Stroup and Allen St. Pierre of NORML; Kevin Zeese of Common Sense
Source: The Week Online story, 8/23/02)
More coverage and pictures at the Seattle
Hempfest web site
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The
11th Annual Seattle Hempfest, probably the world's largest single
pro-cannabis event, came off hot and crowded but trouble-free
on August 17-18 as members of the Pacific Northwest cannabis
culture, including many Canadians, flooded into Myrtle Edwards
Park on Puget Sound for two days of music, speeches and cannabis
commerce.
Despite
vows of "zero tolerance" and a handful of arrests for
marijuana sales, police at Hempfest generally behaved themselves.
for
Drug Policy; medical marijuana patient Elvy Musikka; "pot
pride" campaign organizer Mikki Norris; November Coalition
leaders Nora Callahan and Chuck Armsbury; Ohio Hempery's Don
Wirtshafter and many more.