Comments on: Eye Editorial: Reclaim Redwood Park – February 10, 2010

By: ChongII

ChongII — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:18:31 +0000

I like your ideas local girl!! I remember those days also

By: local girl

local girl — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:58:16 +0000

why not have a organized hempfest on that day.. there used to be one (only for a few years) educate people, get the local food and business vendors in there and bring some of the money that people bring to support local business. they will come anyway,make some use of it!

By: ChongII

ChongII — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:14:22 +0000

Rain or Shine, the Stoners will show up in the masses!!!

By: Robert Vaughn

Robert Vaughn — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:44:48 +0000

Being a weekday this April 20th will be interesting !
Whatever does actually happen in Redwood park that day ?

Robert Vaughn

By: marcy

marcy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:30:11 +0000

years ago (mid 90′s) i was living in nyc, where they held the annual “pot parade” (norml’s marijuana march) every year in early may. it ended in washington square park, where everyone would meet up, smoke and listen to music and speakers against prohibition all afternoon. one year, after being fed up with the blatant smoke-fest, the city decided to try to end it by scheduling a “family day in the park” on the same date . . . which was a nice concept, except that most of the folks showing up at the park for the rally had no clue that there was a family day going on. it ended up with a large amount of people wandering around the park smoking joints, wondering why there were face-painting booths and puppet shows everywhere, while parents pushed their children around in strollers bemoaning the presence of huge clouds of pot smoke floating past their heads.
trying to hold ANYTHING else in the redwood park on 4/20 other than a smoke-out is a waste of time. the same thing i saw happen in nyc will happen; families will have to deal with their kids being exposed to pot, and potheads will have to deal with angry families trying to shut them down. it’s ONE DAY of the year. crack down the rest of the year on smoking and camping and loitering in the park, but let the stoners have their day on 4/20.

By: ChongII

ChongII — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:45:35 +0000

Just let the stoners smoke their weed, and be happy, gotta think of how it’s going to be with 20,000 pist off stoners being told they can’t smoke, and partake in an Annual event that’s been around for a long time in these woods, I know I wouldn’t like to see that, cuz then it’ll be like the Eureka riots back in the day, and we definitely don’t want that happening in Arcata, or our parks. Yes, they’ve got to think about smoking close, and around peoples children,which is wrong and selfish on their part, but also knowing a park is going to be full of marijuana smoke, it’s pretty self evident to leave your wee ones at home take the community fair down to the plaza, and have it like Farmers market for the day. There’s always a compromise, so that EVERYONE can have a good day instead of making 420 a big fight.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:53:40 +0000

Or, let the stoners have their day.

I think it is the daily management of the problem is what needs to be stepped up. If this one day were a free for all, we could look the other way, and they could know that this was special and different than every other day. Instead what we have are people who think this county is one big festival all year.

I don’t mind not taking my kids to the playground on one specific day. It sure does bother me though when I do take them there and drug users have taken over the play equipment.

By: teve

teve — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:55:15 +0000

Pot City, USA festival and farmers market! Brilliant idea.