500-toker pot party gets OK’d outdoors at Seattle Center

[eridani]

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022315697_potpartyxml.html

On the first anniversary of legal weed in Washington state, the city will permit a big pot party on the site of Seattle Center’s old Fun Forest amusement park.

Pot activist Ben Livingston has the contract to prove it, a city document that says “Licensee is permitted to host a private outdoor marijuana smoking area.”

Livingston forked over $1,900, which he got from a local law firm, to use part of the 74-acre Seattle Center for about eight hours on Dec. 6, the anniversary of the day Washington’s recreational pot law took effect.

It’s a free, adults-only event, open to the public, at which Livingston plans to have light music, light catering and outdoor pot smoking by up to 500 people behind a double fence, or smoking “moat,” as the permit says.

But it wasn’t easy to accomplish.

Livingston said Seattle Center officials initially rejected the idea because marijuana remains federally illegal. It took three months, he said, of arguing and pressing his case before city officials came around.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Wish I could be there.

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[Aristus]

2. Me, too!

[In_The_Wind]

3. Of couse you do.

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