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Thousands toke and buy weed as Sacramento hosts first legal marijuana fest in California
The Sacramento Bee ^ | May 4th, 2018 | By Barbara Harvey

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.

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KEYWORDS: california; dope
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To: South Dakota

Indeed. That gut sick feeling that hits when you know there’s gonna be a wreck.


21 posted on 05/04/2018 9:38:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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To: Rebelbase
Myron Floren to the rescue!
 
22 posted on 05/04/2018 9:59:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: umgud
"And the parking lots were full. Designated drivers?"

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...

23 posted on 05/04/2018 10:06:59 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

The food trucks must have made bank.


24 posted on 05/04/2018 10:10:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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To: Mariner

Wasn’t there, but if the local paper was to be believed, yes.


25 posted on 05/04/2018 10:10:28 PM PDT by rey
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To: Rebelbase

Dick Dale.... Wow.


26 posted on 05/04/2018 10:11:33 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Mariner

Such a sad country song: “I’m down to seeds and stems again”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsq1K7f_yc


27 posted on 05/04/2018 10:17:52 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Rebelbase

“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.


28 posted on 05/04/2018 10:22:42 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Mariner

Woo hoo! ‘Cause we don’t have enough brain dead Californians as it is.


29 posted on 05/04/2018 10:23:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yeah...more people walking around stoned is real progress. /s


30 posted on 05/04/2018 10:37:53 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives numerous, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Mariner

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.


31 posted on 05/04/2018 11:28:27 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (For what profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Not really

Plenty of places you can drink in public

New Orleans

Most parks

Sporting venues

Louisiana still has drive through booze


32 posted on 05/04/2018 11:32:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young buck goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

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...


33 posted on 05/04/2018 11:33:30 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Mariner
In the 70s most venues where I grew up tolerated pot at music events

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....

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34 posted on 05/04/2018 11:48:21 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young buck goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And don’t smoke cigarettes!


35 posted on 05/05/2018 2:25:29 AM PDT by FES0844 (SGould the allow it. Hi call the shots. IÂ’m sure Laura would have stayed Oman)
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To: palmer

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


36 posted on 05/05/2018 3:05:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Mariner
As if the human brains in California were not severely dysfunctional already, they've decided to malfunction their central nervous systems even more by infusing them with cannabis.

Maybe the former lead to the latter.

The California trainwreck can only get worse.

37 posted on 05/05/2018 5:41:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (MAGA!!!!!)
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To: palmer
I’ve never heard of any of those people.

No real music involved.....


38 posted on 05/05/2018 6:09:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: ronnie raygun

“Bread and Circuses”-—Roman

“Weed and Sex”——Calif.


39 posted on 05/05/2018 6:13:40 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Mariner

Cheech and Chong Day it was.


40 posted on 05/05/2018 6:22:39 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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