Dig deeper.

As I recall, the Bebop and Brew event (http://www.bebopandbrew.com/) was shut down due to concerns over lawn care. Considering how muddy the ground is at Redwood Park this seems like a very a legitimate concern. It’s a little dubious however, that the same issue was brought up in an attempt to shut down the North Country Fair on the Plaza.

I also recall at the time, that a “Never Again” policy was adapted for events with beer and wine in Redwood Park. This is a shame — if Shakespeare in the Park could sell beer and wine it might be better attended (like the Mad River Festival). Beer and Wine sales could also provide a little budget to pay the artists.

But Bebop & Brew and Hempfest were well organized, fun and festive. Why did City Hall make it so difficult (if not impossible) for those events to happen?

No park is closing on 4/20, it’s increased law enforcement. I assume people caught smoking will be ticketed, at most. I’m somewhat new to the area so I don’t know what went down previously.

There’s nothing wrong with smoking weed. Oftentimes when crowds gather, a few bad seeds ruin it for everyone, acting irresponsibly, littering and vandalizing shit.

If this was a festival or some sort of organized gathering then a permit may be necessary. But asking tax paying citizens, many of whom contribute tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars per year into the City of Arcata Inc. to apply for a permit to go to a city park for a few hours one day out of the year which they themselves fund via taxes is, well it’s insane, ludicrous and criminal.

Every holiday and weekend in this state, in this country and on this planet hundreds of millions of people flock to city parks. Depending on the geographic region, the holiday and the population the city, parks are each impacted in some way. On Labor Day, Cinco De Mayo and the Fourth of July more-than-likely the most.

Now could you imagine if any of these cities used tax-payed public servants to enforce some sort of closure or warning that this may not be the best Father’s Day to go to your local tax payer funded city park?

Try that in South or Central America or try closing the city parks in Mexico or in Los Angeles on Cinco De Mayo. They’ll tell you where to stick your caution tape.

You folks in Arcata are insane. What do they put in your drinking water? You should just kick all of the damn pot heads out of your town and be done with it already. You should make them register and where a 6 pointed star, I mean pot leaf on their jackets and make internment camps for them.

Then watch what happens to your hardware stores, gas stations, precious co-ops, your 10 sushi bars, your water stores and your city streets. You think your town is still funded by logging? You think that the HSU students or the University itself keep it alive? Think again bubba. You be wrong.

Ever been to a little town called Orick? I have. Embrace it. It’s your future folks if you keep it up.

Wake up folks. You’re living in a dream cloud. Come back down to earth and join us Earthlings. You may not like that plant, hell, I can’t say that I like it much myself, but I’m not gonna be the one to tell God that he shouldn’t have rested on the seventh day. He should’ve been busy spraying Round-Up on all those plants because he musta made a big friggin’ mistake creating it.