i knoww its been a while...

I know I have not written a blog since my first one. Truth is, me and my roommate ordered books. Something happened and our books just never came. So obviously our journalism book has yet to show and we were left stranded with nothing to read.so great..

Soo this weekend I went into Boston with a few of my friends and we checked out the Hempfest festival. We talked today in class about the decriminalization of marijuana and this stroke me as a chance to talk about what I experienced this weekend. So I went to this festival to check it out, I always heard so much about it. And I went there and was completly shocked. As I knew, you were not allowed to smoke weed in public. To my surprise I was obviously wrong since out of probably the 10,000 people there, almost everyone I saw was smoking. There was police everywhere but they stood on the outskirts, simply watching. The most I saw was a park ranger walking around, taking pipes and putting out whatever was lit. All I could think of is "this is like woodstock." There was various tents selling shirts, jewlery, and anything to do with smoking pot. All these tents were set up by hippies and such, and they even had there children behind there tables with them. It was shocking. People even brought there children to walk around this festival. I saw kids that couldnt have been any older then twelve, smoking and buying pipes. There was also people performing, like local bands, rappers, and singers. They also had people petitioning the legalization of marijuana and activists speaking on stage about it. There is a women running for govenor of Massachusetts and she was up on the stage, speaking of how she is pro legalization and how we were all the voters who could change it. Again, I was pretty surprised. I knew this festival had to with hemp and smoking weed but I didnt know that all of this was legally allowed. Underage selling. Public smoking.. And the funny thing is..not one person I saw or heard from was given a fine for possesing marijuana. So it makes me wonder about this whole new law that just came about. Is it even really active? Since this whole new law passed, I have heard of one person getting a $100 fine. She told me she never paid it and nothing has become of it since. Which also makes me think, even if this law is established and being acted upon, it is not followed up on. If the police were truly cracking down, they could have given a fine to thousands of people who were gathered at Boston Common this Saturday...

Just something I was thinking aboutt...