Hempfest Seattle 2009

What is going on in my neighborhood? I see puke all over the sidewalks, abandoned flip flops, mcdonalds food wrapping, dumb kids from the suburbs, juggalos, and gross looking hippies. Ah, it must be Hempfest weekend in Seattle, the event where every moron in the northwest converges on Belltown to celebrate their favorite plant. Let's see what we have here: (images from Seattle PI)

A Hempfest worker tries to guide human traffic as the crowd bottlenecked near the south entrance during Hempfest at Myrtle Edwards and Elliot Bay Parks in Seattle on Saturday August 15, 2009.

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Great job there buddy. I bet that horn is really helping. This bong helmet will be the greatest achievement that he will ever have.

Festivalgoers who jumped a fence to get around a bottlenecked crowd scatter as a train barrels down on them in a rail yard adjacent to Myrtle Edwards and Elliot Bay Parks in Seattle.

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I'm totally high and I'm jumping trains. What could possibly go wrong? A reputable seller of baked goods. He definitely did not stick these down his pants earlier. This is so beautiful man. That boat is so small, but I don't know what it means. Woah... Only because the thousands of bongs at the fest were all being used. Yes, the dog wants to inhale your disgusting smoke. It's not like its nose is extremely sensitive. Way to go you fucktard. Dude, so I'm hungry right now I could eat some corn. Whoa, dude, they've got ******* corn here! Time to nap. I had a hard day of work fighting for legalization.

I went to Hempfest once when I was 18. Thought it was boring.
It could always be worse though, I'm in the F'ing Palouse right now. I'd really enjoy any sign of civilization.

Looks like a dirtbag convention. We have nukes, time to use them.

Good threak. Would view again.

I liked this one. Bag full of munchies by the hooka.

Hard to hold some kids having fun against them. Sad for the ones there that are not kids though.

Great threak. I especially liked the corn picture. You could have opened a concession stand with a couple of loaves of stale bread. Sold them by the slice.

Seattle police officially declare legalization for one day, or is that always the case in downtown Seattle?

Originally Posted by Pennglock

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Seattle police officially declare legalization for one day, or is that always the case in downtown Seattle?
No, it's not official in that regard - they just won't arrest anyone at the event for smoking or having pot and they're mostly there for other reasons like crowd control and general safety.

I'm not sure what's behind the arrangement though, but doing or dealing drugs elsewhere in the city will definitely get you into trouble.

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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I liked this one. Bag full of munchies by the hooka.

Hard to hold some kids having fun against them. Sad for the ones there that are not kids though.

Looks to me like they're smoking doritos. Substance abuse fail.

Say what you will about these kids (and there is plenty), it looks like a ******* blast. I would definitely go.

It's not worse than a number of Octoberfests I went to in Cincinnati that always got co-opted by local college students and turned into a giant multi-block parties, fueled by $6 liters of Warsteiner. The difference is, if weed were legal you wouldn't have people in the streets being dumbasses, they would never leave the house. And no one's hurting anyone in those pictures, as far as I can tell.

Originally Posted by Magician

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Say what you will about these kids (and there is plenty), it looks like a ******* blast. I would definitely go.

You're a kid. You should go, and have a great time. When you hit 30 though, it suddenly becomes sad

Originally Posted by robin

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This is so beautiful man. That boat is so small, but I don't know what it means. Woah...

Only because the thousands of bongs at the fest were all being used.
Which beach are these kids on? I remember going there but I don't remember which beach it is.

Originally Posted by robin

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A reputable seller of baked goods. He definitely did not stick these down his pants earlier.

this is styleforum, so i'm going to point out that there is something incredibly charismatic about this guy. most people would guess the mane, but while that certainly doesn't hurt, i think the headband (with matching leopard-print lapels and sleeve-cuffs) and the sunglasses DEFINITELY enhance the look

and of course, the leaves around his neck, like caesar's laurel crown slipped downward

this is one hell of a look

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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You're a kid. You should go, and have a great time. When you hit 30 though, it suddenly becomes sad

It is only sad in that you have lost touch with your inner child, Pio.
Find him.
Embrace him.