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Dope Show Up in Smoke
Posted by FoM on September 21, 1999 at 05:21:36 PT
By Bernard Pilon
Source: Edmonton Sun
Only days after the Freedom Foundation - a cannabis advocacy group behind Edmonton Hempfest '99 - got the boot from one hall after a Sun article on the day-long bash, a second, bigger space been snapped up. But the price has been the dope-growing show.
A pro-pot celebration is having a hard time getting lit up."We just had some altercation with the (first) hall. It was due to your newspaper," foundation member Haley Nelson said yesterday.Hempfest '99 was supposed to be a noon-to-midnight affair at the non-smoking Ritchie Community Centre this coming Sunday - the first time the annual pro-pot bash has headed indoors since the province kicked them off the Legislature grounds after last fall's rampant drug use appalled cops and MLAs.But when Ritchie community league president Don Sequin met with Nelson and company to discuss exactly what the foundation was planning to do, the booking was scrubbed."We thought we'd given them a fair shake. We're always concerned about narcotics (in the 7727 98 St. hall), but it doesn't mean we approve or disapprove of them," Seguin said.Now the bash is rescheduled for Oct. 10 at Bonnie Doon Community Hall - a bigger, newer venue. But Hempfest's second shot at success has dropped plans to show people the tricks of domestic marijuana growing - something Nelson said was necessary "because of tensions that arose" within hall brass."I told them what this festival is all about and what this festival isn't all about. They had no problem," Nelson said. Tuesday, September 21, 1999 The Edmonton Sun
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