OBJECTIVE AND PURPOSE
To educate the public on the myriad of potential benefits offered by the Cannabis plant, including the medicinal, industrial, agricultural, economic, environmental, and other benefits and applications, including domestic industrial hemp production and commerce. In particular, Seattle Hempfest seeks to advance the cause of Cannabis policy reform through education, while advancing the public image of the Cannabis advocate or enthusiast through example.
Volunteer Staff
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Seattle Hempfest happens thanks to a volunteer core staff of one hundred twenty (120) working year-round and an additional one thousand (1,000) volunteering through the week of our event. Over forty distinct crews synergize to produce the largest pot rally on the planet. The energy created by this activist family is amazing, and we invite you to be a part of it!
All staffing is managed through the Hempfest Staffing Universe web site. Through that web site, one may see the entire Hempfest crew and shift structure, including the number of warm bodies needed per shift and the current per-shift staffing count. Once registered, general staff may add, remove, or change the shifts in their schedule.
Information for Attendees
Seattle Hempfest is held the third weekend in August. The next Seattle Hempfest is August 16-17, 2008 at Myrtle Edwards Park on the beautiful Seattle waterfront, just north of Pier 70 at the corner of Alaskan Way and Broad Street. Seattle is in King County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. See maps from Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo.
Event hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
No dogs, alcohol, narcotics, weapons, camping or unauthorized vending.
Admission to Seattle Hempfest is free.
Hempfest 2008 Hempfest Theme: Industrial Hemp, and what it can do for America.
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The world is facing many challenges, and with your help Hemp is on the way!
The theme for the seventeenth year of Seattle Hempfest is Industrial Hemp. We’d like to see the Department of Homegrown Security, because hemp can do much to aid America through the challenging future. With our nation's stumbling economy, soaring gas prices, and recent global energy and food shortages we can't afford to ignore the fact that industrial hemp can play a useful role in securing the vital interests of our nation.
What can Hemp do? Hemp Bio-Mass to help our Bio-mess!
Hemp could help revitalize our economy. Hemp could help us restore and preserve our environment. Hemp can save our virgin forests. Hemp can help America break its addiction to foreign oil. Hemp can provide a cheap and healthy protein to aid in feeding the world. And Cannabis can help the sick and dying find varying degrees of relief. How long can America deny these precious gifts from nature?
Support Hempfest
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Seattle Hempfest through the NORML Foundation
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