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safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:14 PM
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Ann Arbor Hash Bash could have record crowd
Source: Detroit Freepress



Saturday’s 39th annual Hash Bash, the yearly gathering where people openly smoke marijuana on the University of Michigan’s Diag plaza, could draw the event’s biggest turnout ever, organizer Adam Brook said.



The record was about 10,000 pot smokers, who jammed “almost shoulder to shoulder” on a fine spring day a decade or so ago, but perhaps 12,000 or more will squeeze in on Saturday, from noon to1 p.m., thanks to the good weather that’s expected combined with widespread enthusiasm for Michigan’s 15-month-old medical-marijuana law, Brook, 42, of Royal Oak said today.

Public smoking or other use of marijuana remains illegal, even for state-approved medical patients, according to the Michigan Department of Community Health. Still, enforcement has been minimal, if not non-existent, at previous Hash Bashes, Brook said.
“The next step is clarification of the state law,” said Anthony Freed, 32, of Clark Lake (near Jackson), who is scheduled to speak at the Hash Bash. Freed, who heads a group seeking to ensure the civil rights of medical users of marijuana, said today that “we’re experiencing freedoms now that we never expected to get back,” but that “we have a lot of municipalities stepping in with a lot of moratoriums” on the commercial growing of medical marijuana for others.

Read more: http://freep.com/article/20100402/NEWS05/100402067/1320/



I remember a few nice days years ago.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:18 PM
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1. Oh, that kind of hash
I'm a little slow tonight. I kept thinking of hash browns. HaHa. Can't smoke hash brown potatoes.
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zogofzorkon Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:38 PM
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3. However you can be hash brown potatoes
fried almost to a crisp.
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SkyDaddy7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 06:20 AM
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9. "Fried Crisp"
Yes!
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:32 PM
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2. 39th?!? Geez, I was there at the early ones, in the early '70s.
Don't remember much about them, but of course, I didn't remember much a few days later, either.

Haven't smoked hash in - well, decades, I guess.

Peace, love, rock and roll. Some nice art, too. Friends have posters from Back in the Day, but this is nice, too.

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BuddhaGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:44 PM
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4. my hubby was there in the early 70's too
attending U of M...those were the days, he says! :smoke:
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 11:20 PM
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6. I attended MSU - but what the hey, maybe we shared a bowl.
We were all over each others' campuses, and that includes Wayne State, where I started my first two years.

Open City at U-D, too, with an impossibly young Bob Seger.

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safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 06:52 AM
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10. Me too
Drive down for the free concerts and the MC5, kick out the jams......
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 09:15 PM
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5. In 1991, it was so cold that the A2 Hash Bash was about 12 people.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 12:14 AM
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7. it always throws me that the Detroit Free Press uses "Freep.com"
What, the Freeps are talking about marijuana?
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 03:35 AM
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8. I'm thinking they're gonna kick it off with a bhang.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 07:40 AM
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11. ...or a bong?.......nt
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 02:54 PM
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14. Brutal.
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Ticonderoga Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 10:14 AM
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12. The guy who
brings the hot dog cart is gonna make a killin.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 10:42 AM
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13. lol i'm amused that someone out there still uses the word "hash"
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 04:12 PM
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15. hash and marijuana are not the same thing
Edited on Sat Apr-03-10 04:13 PM by Lost4words
same plant different process. At least thats what someone once told me,...

:smoke:
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