ANN ARBOR, MI — A little rain on a cold, windy Saturday wasn’t enough to stop committed pot smokers from descending upon downtown Ann Arbor and lighting up.
Despite the drizzle and temperatures below 40 degrees, smoke still billowed from the University of Michigan Diag during the 52nd-annual Hash Bash marijuana rally on April 1.
Between the main smoke fest and political rally on the Diag and coinciding Monroe Street Fair, thousands mingled about and took part in the cannabis celebration on April Fools’ Day.
“Five-dollar edibles!” vendors on the Diag called out to passersby as Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg songs blasted from speakers and rolling digital billboards for a local dispensary advertised a free eighth of an ounce of weed with each purchase.
Scenes from Hash Bash on the University of Michigan campus on Saturday, April 1, 2023. The rainy weather didn’t prevent people from attending the annual event.Sydney Verlinde | MLive.com
With the inclement weather, the crowd on the Diag was sparser than usual, but diehards still donned marijuana-themed attire — complemented with umbrellas and ponchos — to take in a series of speeches. The crowd joined along in anti-police chants while calling for freeing people in prison for marijuana.
“Free Danny Trevino!” Josey Scoggin of the Great Lakes Expungement Network yelled out, referring to Lansing’s “professor of pot,” a marijuana entrepreneur sentenced in 2020 to nearly 16 years in prison after federal investigators…
