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2012 Seattle Hempfest, Source: http://kygl.com/hempfest-2012-went-down-last-weekend-in-seattle-videopoll/

This year’s Hempfest in Seattle Washington promised to be one of the biggest cannabis rallies in the nation. For three straight days thousands of weedists filled the waterfront in downtown Seattle, fulfilling that promise. There were valuable panels such as The Great I-502 Debate. At times the festival was so crowded that it was difficult just to walk around.

With such an assembly of pot friendly minds one would expect donations to be through the roof, but Hempfest founder Vivian McPeak said over the weekend that Hempfest receives merely $0.10 on average from every person who attends the event.

That means that only 1 person out of every 100 donates the recommended amount of $10 at the gate. If 300,000 attendees were originally expected that means only approximately $30,000 was received in donations instead of $3,000,000.

Hempfest has grown into one of the most influential cannabis events in the world. Could it reach even bigger heights if we opened our wallets?

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