S<\/span>mall-town America lives for the parade \u2014 the time-honored tradition of stepping out and strutting down Main Street for all to see: Summer isn\u2019t summer without the Fourth of July parade, and in hamlets with a strong connection to the land, it isn\u2019t really fall without harvest festival parades.<\/p>\n California\u2019s agricultural towns see parades celebrating grapes, beans, garlic<\/a>, artichokes and paganism<\/a>. But California has legalized recreational marijuana for all adults 21 and over, so in the corners of the state where the marijuana plant is the local economic driver, there is also much to celebrate.<\/p>\n Meaning it\u2019s no surprise that in the small town of Arcata, the county seat of Humboldt, one of the three northern California counties that comprise the state\u2019s \u201cEmerald Triangle\u201d \u2014the American cannabis industry\u2019s agricultural heartland \u2014 there is a cannabis harvest parade.<\/p>\n According to the Eureka Times-Standard, \u201cseveral hundred people\u201d turned out on August 12 for what organizers called the \u201cYes We Cann! Parade & Hullabaloo<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Behold. And take note, there was a goat \u2014 from the Times Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n People of all ages, dogs and even a goat paraded from the Humboldt State University parking lot at 14th and Union Streets to H Street, around the Arcata Plaza and into the Arcata Ball Park where the hullabaloo took place. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Growdozers pulled trailers decorated as floats. Bands played live music from two of the floats singing cannabis tunes.<\/em><\/p>\n The Emerald Triangle \u2014 including the the roughly 7,500 marijuana farms<\/a> in Humboldt \u2014 produces a heroic share of California\u2019s sizable output of commercial marijuana (and much of its black-market cannabis).<\/p>\n And while there are already multiple annual festivals to celebrate the cannabis plant \u2014 Seattle has its HempFest and the Emerald Cup is in nearby Sonoma County \u2014 an innocuous display like a parade is a logical outcome, though it\u2019ll be some time before civic leaders like the Rotary Club or the Chamber of Commerce feel comfortable enough about the local cannabis industry to be the official sponsors.<\/p>\n So the onus for organizing fell to Humboldt Green, a local firm that boasts services including business consulting, cultivation advice and event planning. Like parades.<\/p>\n So there was executive director Stephen Gieder, wearing a marijuana leaf mask, at the head of a march that included a \u201ccannabis queen and king\u201d float, daring revelers perched on stilts and other representatives of 39 Humboldt-area marijuana companies, who handed out child-friendly treats like candies, cups and koozies to citizens assembled along the parade route.<\/p>\n The purpose of most parades is a display of pride and accomplishment \u2014 unless you\u2019re from the next town over, where there is no parade, in which case these demonstrations create envy.<\/p>\n To hear Dave Wasson, a resident of Sonoma County, tell the Times Standard \u2014 mission accomplished.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have anything like this Sonoma County,\u201d he said. \u201cYet.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US,\u00a0<\/strong>would you attend a cannabis parade?<\/p>\n The post Of Course Humboldt Has a Cannabis Parade<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Humboldt is the symbolic capital of California\u2019s world famous Emerald Triangle, so it\u2019s not too surprising that there\u2019s a small town Main Street parade there celebrating cannabis. Small-town America lives for the parade \u2014 the time-honored tradition of stepping out and strutting down Main Street for all to see: SummerContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,99,100,1222,1223],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18658,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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