{"id":7328,"date":"2017-04-03T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2602162&amp;preview_id=2602162"},"modified":"2017-04-03T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:50:15","slug":"thousands-attend-ann-arbors-annual-hash-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/thousands-attend-ann-arbors-annual-hash-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend Ann Arbor\u2019s annual Hash Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/thousands-attend-ann-arbors-annual-hash-bash\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"sticky-outer\">\n<div class=\"large-11 small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Apr 3, 2017, 12:30 pm \u2022 Updated: Apr 3, 2017, 12:33 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/04\/03\/hash-bash-ann-arbor-michigan\/76542\/#disqus_thread\" class=\"commentsNameLink\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><em>By The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. \u2014 Several thousand people gathered Saturday on the University of Michigan\u2019s campus in Ann Arbor to celebrate marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Hash Bash started Saturday afternoon on the school\u2019s Diag and has become a rallying effort for legalizing marijuana use.<\/p>\n<p>The Ann Arbor News reports that attorney and activist Jeffrey Hank released a pair of white doves Saturday as symbols of the fight to legalize pot.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan bans marijuana use and possession unless it\u2019s medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in six Michigan communities passed marijuana decriminalization measures in November 2014. Voters in two Oakland County communities passed similar measures that August, while voters in Lansing were among residents in three cities who approved decriminalization proposals in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 8,000 people attended last year\u2019s rally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/thousands-attend-ann-arbors-annual-hash-bash.jpg\" alt=\"A reveler smokes out of a large bong during the Monroe Street Fair after the 46th annual Hash Bash on Saturday, April 1, 2017. The street fair featured vendors, music and speakers and is the largest pro-marijuana festival east of the Mississippi. (Matt Weigand, The Ann Arbor News via AP)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76558\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A reveler smokes out of a large bong during the Monroe Street Fair after the 46th annual Hash Bash on Saturday, April 1, 2017. The street fair featured vendors, music and speakers and is the largest pro-marijuana festival east of the Mississippi. (Matt Weigand, The Ann Arbor News via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand people gathered on the University of Michigan&#8217;s campus in Ann Arbor to celebrate marijuana in the city&#8217;s annual Hash Bash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,77,5667,9,196,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,2655,5673,2774,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}