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Inside the US’s largest cannabis festival

Inside the US's largest cannabis festival

In Australia it’s seen as taboo, but many American states have embraced legal use of cannabis. This weekend, California, a state weeks away from legalisation, is hosting the US’s largest pot festival.

Known as the Emerald Cup, the two-day festival in Sonoma is for users, those wishing to learn more about marijuana, and those in the business (or who plan to be).

An estimated 30,000 people will pass through the gates, and you can buy the drug in various forms from vendors, including in desserts, oils and topical creams – as well as giant buds, and lots of them.

Inside the US's largest cannabis festival

Organiser Timothy Blake says while the drug is still weeks away from legalisation in California, the state is already at the forefront of research and medical use. “We’re really leading this country in and leading this world in types of products and types of development,” he said.

Right now in California you require a doctor’s recommendation to get a prescription for the drug, and that takes just a few minutes – you can even do it online via Skype.  All that will change on January 1, when recreational use is legalised in the state.

Legal growers expect a boom in the next few years. Australia is still in the infancy of legalised cannabis for medicinal use.  But organisers of California’s Emerald Cup say Australia should embrace marijuana.

Inside the US's largest cannabis festival

“I say if you could get every terrorist doing cannabis you’d have nobody blowing anybody up,” Mr Blake said. He says he doesn’t know why governments would hesitate.  “Really, there’s just so many benefits why wouldn’t you just bring it in?”

credit:420intel.com

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