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Ferre
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 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject: Ohio State cancels Hempfest! |
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Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An annual pro-marijuana event at Ohio State University expected to draw thousands of people on Saturday has been canceled by the university because officials say organizers did not follow the rules.
Organizers of Ohio Hempfest are promising to fight the decision and have hired lawyers to take their case to court. They say they are being unfairly targeted.
"We're contesting it," said Sarah Clark, an organizer and recent Ohio State graduate. "To us, it's not over yet."
Hempfest has been held on Ohio State's campus since 1996. The event includes speakers, bands, literature tables and vendors. The event was to run from noon to midnight.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the festival's sponsor, asked to reserve space on the south Oval in October, organizer Sean Luse said. The request was approved in April, he said.
But Pat Hall, director of the university's Student Judicial Affairs, told him in an e-mail on Tuesday that Hempfest was canceled.
The group did not give the university 10 days' notice and did not have written permission from its faculty sponsor, Hall said. Those conditions were placed on the group after students smoked marijuana in an academic building following another event the group hosted in November.
The cancellation has nothing to do with the event, said Rich Hollingsworth, associate vice president of student affairs. He said reserving space is not the same as having permission.
"If the group wanted to reschedule ... they could do it," Hollingsworth said. "Of course, that would be a little hard to do with the school year ending."
Ohio State Police Chief John Petry told Luse the event concerns him.
"In past years, there has been significant drug use at the event and the sponsoring group has done little to stop that and could even be said to encourage it," Petry wrote in an e-mail to Luse.
Hollingsworth, Hall and organizers, though, recalled no trouble at previous Hempfests.
"There's never been violence or shootings or mass arrest," Luse said. "It just hasn't happened."
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/8828285.htm?1c
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Pepper
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:57 am Post subject: |
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This is nonsense. The University has made a mistake because the cancellation has made the local news (which is providing unbiased reporting; amazing!) and has created free publicity for the event. The organizers will be in front of a Federal judge Friday morning that will likely grant an injunction.
There are too many activists coming to this event, I'm sure the University will cave in. 
Here's a website that lists e-mail of bureaucrats attempting to suppress the event: Save the Ohio Hempfest |
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Ferre
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:17 am Post subject: |
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just addressed this email to all of them :
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Dear Bureaucrats,
I write to you in order to let you know we, in the Netherlands, are shocked by the news about the canselling of the Ohio Hemp fest. "The land of the free" is something out of history books so it seems, and bureacrats "moralise" the people in the states today. Well done, we have a name for that in Europe, we used to call it fascism but I guess that can be changed into "americanism", our modern day version.
Congratulations, you have made a fool of yourself in the eyes of the rest of the world. (again)
More and more people on our continent are starting to see the real face of the US. Intolerance, brutal agression, bullying, torture, slave keeping, all part of it, now also silencing the public.
Now even peacefull demonstrations get sabotaged. We are aware of the usual (lame) excuses the bureaucrats use to justify their actions, When you truly believe you do this for the general interest of the public it's about time to wake up and get to understand the real world. AND DEMOCRACY!
Reverend Ferre van Beveren
The Netherlands.
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Lilli
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 ty bro
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