Don E. Wirtshafter moderates the most anticipated panel of Seattle Hempfest 2012. Initiative 502 is on the Washington State ballot and would legalize personal possession of marijuana, with state-licensed cultivation for commercial stores. It also institutes a

READ DESCRIPTION! 2012 is shaping up to be a crazy year in pot reform, as two states are trying to legalize some aspects of Marijuana use which have never been successfully legalized to this extent in the US before. Washington with Initiative 502 and Colorado

Travel writer and activist extraordinaire, Rick Steves, speaks to the Seattle Hempfest crowd about the futile attempt to enforce a failed prohibition, reefer madness, Europe’s successful and pragmatic harm reduction approach to marijuana and the basic no