The cloudy skies and rainy weather didn’t prevent thousands of marijuana lovers from gathering in Ann Arbor on Saturday to light a few joints and listen to activists speak about a variety of cannabis topics.
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The annual event took place at the Diag on the University of Michigan campus with countless vendors, musicians and speakers including marijuana activists Matthew Abel, Tim Beck, Chuck Ream and Rick Thompson.
Ash Daniels with Michigan Liberation also spoke at the rally as the organization is dedicated to ending mass incarceration and over policing through abolition.
Daniels is currently working on a campaign called Care Not, Criminalization, which began shortly after the organization was established in 2018, and has grown over time.
“That campaign is working towards ending the criminalization of mental health and substance use because we know you can’t get well in a cell,” she said. “We also know and recognize the stigma behind these things is just as dangerous and that stigma actually created a lot of barriers in preventing people from recovering, going to go get treatment, or seeking help.”
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According to Daniels, she was giving out free Narcan at Hash Bash and most enjoyed being surrounded by like-minded people.
“I know and recognize that most people use some form of drugs and it’s just a reminder of how if we work together as a community, that we can have this community feeling,” Daniels said. “We can openly and freely talk about or even partake in doing these things whether it’s marijuana or psychedelics and do it in a safe way.”
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Brianna Garrett, owner of Bubbles R Fun, joined her significant other at Hash Bash to help with his business, Third Eye Muse Edibles.
According to Garrett, her boyfriend sells mushroom-infused chocolate bars. They were selling for $40 per bar at the festival and each bar contains a full eighth.
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Garrett said a popular item was the trifecta bar, which contains 200 mg of hash resin and a gram of both medicinal and psilocybin mushrooms. There were also other options from which to choose.
While many were there advertising cannabis products, Mindful Bee Detroit had a different focus with handmade, custom, gemstone jewelry.
Skye, who gave only her first name, was helping the owner staff Mindful Bee Detroit’s tent at the event. She said the gems are sourced from all over the world and the owner often goes to crystal shops and travels internationally to purchase them. She also said the jewelry serves a double purpose.
“They are actually energy tools disguised as jewelry so if you want to align your energy in any way, if you have a specific spiritual purpose that you’re trying to achieve then the stones can help you do that,” she said.
Skye said jewelry prices go from $15 to $1,000 depending on the size of the gem, where it came from, and how long the project took to make. The owner makes each piece by hand and can take various lengths of time ranging from 30 minutes to two hours.
Advocating for natural marijuana but not selling any product, Island Farms located in Ann Arbor joined the festival fun. Leah Hyne, the operations manager, and Maia Simonson, the lab manager at Island Farms, shared educational brochures and information about organic cannabis.
“We grow and process all our cannabis at the farm. It’s super important to use that we can be confident, and our patients can be confident that what they are receiving isn’t full of nasty chemicals,” said Hyne. “In today’s world, with cannabis being legal, it’s really amazing but that means dispensaries are very saturated with product that’s capped with plant growth regulators, and synthetic fertilizers and synthetic pesticides.”
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