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Grateful Dead: only three marijuana arrests at Chicago farewell shows

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 07/08/2015 - 05:22

Are Grateful Dead fans unmellowing in their old age? The veteran jam band’s three farewell shows at Soldier Field in Chicago this weekend attracted 210,000 fans, yet only three of them were charged with possession of marijuana, despite what the Chicago Sun-Times described as “a pungent fog of marijuana smoke” in the stadium.

It turns out, though, that’s not the result of Dead fans eschewing rolling papers and weed, but the result of a hands-off approach by Chicago police. Their stance was at least partly dictated by a bout of gun violence in the city over the weekend, in which seven people were killed and 40 shot.

“While in most cases cannabis possession is a ticketable offense, as residents would expect CPD’s primary focus was on fighting violent crime and addressing the illegal guns that threaten our communities,” Anthony Guglielmi, communications director for the Chicago Police Department, told...

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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/08/grateful-dead-only-three-marijuana-arrests-at-chicago-farewell-shows

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