Posted on 05/04/2018 8:41:58 PM PDT by Mariner
A cloud of smoke hung over Cal Expo Friday afternoon as thousands gathered for the High Times Cannabis Cup, the first permitted event in California to allow recreational use of marijuana.
Organizers expected upwards of 15,000 people over the course of the two-day festival, which boasts musical performances from acclaimed artists, including Lauryn Hill, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Rich The Kid, Cypress Hill, Rick Ross and Ludacris.
The event was at risk of becoming a music-only festival until the Sacramento City Council approved a license for on-site consumption and sales in a 6-2 vote Tuesday. Weeks earlier, a similar High Times event had its permit denied by the San Bernardino City Council just before it was scheduled to take place.
At Cal Expo, crowds maneuvered their way through the rows of booths Friday afternoon, sometimes stopping to take long drags from blunts or sample products. In between puffs from a neatly-rolled joint, Brian Johnson said he was grateful to the city for approving the license.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Indeed. That gut sick feeling that hits when you know there’s gonna be a wreck.
They will be driving home at 3 mph. Or, two days later, they are still sitting in the parking lot, making motor noises, with a vacant smile...
The food trucks must have made bank.
Wasn’t there, but if the local paper was to be believed, yes.
Dick Dale.... Wow.
Such a sad country song: “I’m down to seeds and stems again”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsq1K7f_yc
“Thanka you for that moderna spiritual, Gail anda Dale.” LOL! But maybe he was correct about that.
Apparently Welk wouldn’t allow “Snowbird” to be sung on the show, because he thought it was about cocaine, but this one made it through.
Woo hoo! ‘Cause we don’t have enough brain dead Californians as it is.
Yeah...more people walking around stoned is real progress. /s
Why do you think they call it DOPE.
Pot heads are morons. Why are so many Americans hooked on drugs. Do they not have any other recreational outlet or means of temporary escape than to screw up their brain and let a drug control them so they are no longer responsible for their actions?
I hate drugs. I can’t stand how prolific they are. Why are there so many idiots that use drugs. Losers all. Idiot losers.
Not really
Plenty of places you can drink in public
New Orleans
Most parks
Sporting venues
Louisiana still has drive through booze
I’s sit back and laugh at these idiots but I’m afraid they’ll be killing some little kid on the street or accidentally run a train off the tracks...
Only time cops went nuts was memorial stadium with Canned Heat and Savoy Brown etc......they went crazy with their uncover goons....dragging scores of folks out....a sharp cultural divide....it was a near riot and closed the show mid way....
And dont smoke cigarettes!
Of coarse they need to be inebriated so they wont care what the state of California is doing and has in store for them in their future, not to mention the flood of tax dollars to support the illegals
Maybe the former lead to the latter.
The California trainwreck can only get worse.
No real music involved.....
“Bread and Circuses”-—Roman
“Weed and Sex”——Calif.
Cheech and Chong Day it was.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.