SEATTLE Hempfest 2007

[SpaceNeedle]

I just heard some disturbing news. It is not at all sure, that there is going to be a Hempfest this year. I have been told some environmentalists are objecting/complaining to the city that the people did a lot damage to the park. Sounds to me like there is only a 50/50 chance that they the nation's largest hempfest may not even get off the ground this year. Does anyone know anything more about this matter?

SpaceNeedle Reviewed by SpaceNeedle on 05-24-2007. SEATTLE Hempfest 2007 I just heard some disturbing news. It is not at all sure, that there is going to be a Hempfest this year. I have been told some environmentalists are objecting/complaining to the city that the people did a lot damage to the park. Sounds to me like there is only a 50/50 chance that they the nation's largest hempfest may not even get off the ground this year. Does anyone know anything more about this matter? Rating: 5

[RichieRich]

well I think that would completely blow. I was down at folklife this weekend and I saw a real cutie passing out hempfest flyers. Was a little too out of it for a conversation with anyone.......:jointsmile:

[rockcopper]

They have not refunded my hempfest vender booth money, so, I hope to see you all there!

[IanCurtisWishlist]

you know what there are more crackheads fucking up the parks in seattle its not the marijuana smokers. i was just in seattle like last weekend and i slept on the street at the docks at the seattle waterfront some tweeker pulled a knife on me then some crackheads in pioneer square tried to hustle me at 3 in the fucking morning. let's get rid of them then we will all see that it's the tweekers and junkies fucking up seattle not the hempfest.

[psteve]

Ignore all rumors of cancellation.
Hempfest IS happening!

[SpaceNeedle]

YEP that's what I heard too!

Seattle Hempfest is held the third weekend in August. This year's event is August 18-19, 2007 at Myrtle Edwards Park on the beautiful Seattle waterfront, just north of Pier 70 at the corner of Alaskan Way and Broad Street. Seattle is in Martin Luther King County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest (Cascadia) region of the United States in North America.

Event hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Admission to Seattle Hempfest is free.

[IanCurtisWishlist]

i'm there since live so close to seattle! fuuuuck yeah is it pretty smoke-friendly???? will i get arrested for sparking one on the street?

[SpaceNeedle]

What happened, did everybody die?

[psteve]

I am not dead.

[natureisawesome]

Hempfest seems to be having some troubles this year.

I think hempfest should move to a bigger place anyways. It's supposed to be the same size as in 2001, but it can't stay that way forever. I read on the hempfest website that they're having problems getting enough room for people to get to the event. They only have 11 feet of clearance because of the seattle art museum park ( worthless piece of junk imo) and they're trying to work out another path to make more room. Legally, they have to have at least 20 feet of room for people to get in.

I've been to hempfest several times. I think at least 5 or 6. There's nothing new there. Too many people, noises, smells, slow moving crowds, overly expensive goods. The only reason I would go is to get a hempfest volunteer t-shirt. I would honestly rather spend my time up in the olympic national park relaxing and enjoying the great outdoors. (which is what I'm going to do).

I support Hempfest though because the drug war is wrong, even antibiblical, and most of all because I support hemp cultivation, one of the most responsible things you can support.

Hempfest will happen for sure. There have been pretty bum hempfests though. One year it rained, and it was only a few hundred people out there. There's probably more powerful people on the hempfest side than sam or whoever wants to shut them down. I wish they would talk more about hemp cultivation than smoking pot and throwing out joints. Jack Herer is speaking so probably he will talk about it though.

Oh yeah, for those of you who havn't been there before, prepare to have your bags searched at the entrance.