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Its a cannabis event and that stigma is still real. I'll allow them to go show you what goes on inside my mind. Photo Description: Im not familiar with the band Dire Sloth, but I did enjoy what I heard and will look more into them. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) Could this be the end of the Boston Freedom Rally as we know it? 
Some people and I were listening to keynote speakers talk about MassCann and Cannabis information.
Photo Description: Looking at the main music stage. Its a cannabis event and that stigma is still real. For decades, pro-marijuana activists have held their annual gathering, also known as Hempfest, on Boston Common. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. She brushed aside reports of needles on the Common, noting that the park often has discarded needles littering its ground and that the city clearly has an opioid problem that has nothing to do with the once-a-year-event. Among the ideas the council should consider, it says, is forcing the festival to move somewhere else. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); You see words are my steezo or in other words my thing if you don't understand the lingo. This is a succinct explanation of the event background, for more information check out the website link below.
Were not really new to people wanting us not to have the rally on the Common, she says. This past Saturday I attended my fourth Boston Freedom Rally Aka Hempfest, an annual Educational Cannabis and Music Festival held in Boston Common, Boston MA. Any problem that they want to pick out has been amplified by their bias., This search result is here to prevent scraping, Fire and Smoke Led to Chaos on the Orange Line Once Again, The Best Boston Takes on the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez Wedding, The British Are Coming to BostonPrince William, That Is, An Insiders Guide to Parking near Fenway Park on Game Days, Is Boston Americas Most Racist City? My focus is to get the results and learn from the resultswhen people do book the Common for the future what type of assistance could be provided..
Moreover, MassCann advocates through their campaigns for Cannabis reform laws and social justice for minorities communities who are unjustly incarcerated for the usage of the plant. Photo Description: People and I walking through the cannabis vendor.
The Hopeless Romantics Guide to Dating in Boston, Massachusetts Mask and Vax Mandates: A (Temporarily Accurate) Guide. We look forward to the hearing,he says. Thank you to those who cared enough about our park to clean up their area and others trash left behind. Kinsella says several of those vendors will not be invited back to future events. The groupis confident it can reach a resolution with the community and stay in the Common, its home since 1991, she says, adding, We have a right to be there like everybody else.. (LogOut/ The Freedom Rally might just get kicked off Boston Common for good. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Change). To write the real, you have to show all the rawness, which has its harsh beauty and this is my platform to do just that. Any problem that they want to pick out has been amplified by their bias..
(LogOut/ Not shying away from any subject matter or theme. Loud, rebellious, and celebratory, the rallies have been a centerpiece of the states pro-marijuana movementfor nearly 30 years,a precursor for recentvictorieslegalizing the drug for medicinal, and later, recreational, purposes.
The councilors are following the lead of the Friends of the Public Garden, which earlier this year raised serious concerns about the event as the size of its crowds has grown, and this month shared photos of some of the disarraygarbage, food containers, used cooking oil, and, yes, needleswhich it described as beyond anything we have seen in years past and said required hours of overtime for clean-up. Were not really new to people wanting us not to have the rally on the Common, she says. In the wake of this years event, organizers are developing a more rigorous plan for trash pickup, better communication policies, and security for next year,she says, and they welcome the opportunity to talk about it in a hearing. MassCann, the rallies organizers, have butted heads for years with police, mayors, neighborhood groups, and others over the impact of the 420-friendly festival and its thousands of attendees on the historic park. 2022 Metro Corp. All Rights Reserved. Kinsella also addressed reports of illegal activity at the event, saying that due to miscommunication some vendors were unclear about the states new legal pot law (its legal to gift, but not sell, the drug without a license). The event happens annually on the third Saturday in September and its a festival thats been happening for the last 30 years. Furthermore, MassCann also campaigns for the legalization of hemp agriculture expanding medical marijuana programs and moving the regulation of the herb out from under the drug war armory of mandatory minimums, asset forfeiture, license confiscation, urine testing, and so on (Cited from MassCann site). Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.
(LogOut/ View all posts by TheRhymeRula , View IamtheRhymeRulas profile on Twitter, View RhymeRulas profile on WordPress.org, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Voices behind the words (Poet Interviews), Follow Real Free Flowing Words on WordPress.com, https://masscann.org/about/why-us-why-now-why-you/. A date has not been set. In an interview, Flynnsayshe isnot going to speculate on whetherthe rally should be barred from taking place on Boston Common, saying his primary concern is reducing damage to the park.Were going to get the appropriate officials in to explain what took place this year, he says. Photo location: Boston Common, Boston, MA, Photo description: Walking through festival vendors, Photo Location: Boston Common, Boston, MA. While MassCann, a volunteer organization, acknowledges that the event has grown substantially over the years and concedes that the trash left behind this year was unacceptable, the groupbelieves it is being treated unfairly by the city,according to spokesman MaggieKinsella. Zakim, reached by email, did not elaborate. If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. Theyhave also pissed a lot of people off. heady Blog entries, Poetry (Free verse, Haiku, Narrative poetry), Black History,Photography, and a full course of wisdom quotes. Photo description: People on top of Soldiers and Sailors Monument, enjoying a beautiful day out while smoking herb. Councilors Ed Flynn and Josh Zakim on Monday filed a request for a hearing on the event, citing complaints about illegal activities and permit violations at this years three-day event September 14-16. This included reports of parked cars on the green space, camping in the park, and leaving trash, including used needles, in the park, the document, first reported by UniversalHub, says. And now, two Boston City Councilors are floating the possibility ofkicking the event off the Common for good. Update:reportsCity Councilors on Wednesday agreed to hold a hearing about the Freedom Rally at some point in the future, UniversalHub . Peace, TheRhymeRula. Ask a Black Bostonian for Once, The Unlikely Rise, and Wide Appeal, of Boston's Be a Man Guy, The Shark Attack That Changed Cape Cod Forever, Careers and Internships at Boston Magazine. Photo description: On top of the Boston Common hill, next to the monument, Photo description: Looking towards the main music stage, Photo Location : Boston Common, Boston, MA. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Photo Description : Looking down at the smoke filled festivities. Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours.
Freedom Rally photo uploaded by Ethan Long on Flickr. But she says vendors stopped breaking the rules when they were told to. Indeed, immediately after the festival, MassCann took aim at messy vendors in a Facebook post: If you left your place a mess last night, you are an animal, they wrote. Massachusetts Cannabis Reform (MassCann) is a non profit public education organization working for the moderation of Marijuana laws.