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55th Annual 

Ann Arbor Hash Bash

 

Saturday April 4th

High Noon

Diag - U of M

 

 

The Ann Arbor Hash Bash began April 1st, 1972, as a smoke-in and protest on the Diag at the University of Michigan. Sparked by the arrest and imprisonment of John Sinclair for sales of marijuana, after giving two marijuana joints to an undercover female narcotics officer. He was sentenced to 9½ to 10 years. Sinclair’s case ultimately forced the State of Michigan to rewrite its marijuana laws after the courts ruled the previous statutes unconstitutional. Those laws took effect April 1st 1972. What started as an act of civil disobedience quickly became one of the longest-running cannabis rights demonstrations in the world, enduring for more than five decades as a symbol of protest, free speech, and cannabis law reform.

 

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