Ever After festival reveals cannabis rules, caps pot at roughly 20 joints per day

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• Ever After festival reveals cannabis rules,
  caps pot at roughly 20 joints per day

POPCANN
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It wont be the first time someones smoked a
joint at a music festival, but it is the first
summer since doing so became legal. As the first
round of summer festivals approaches, Kitcheners
Ever After festival is one of the first local
events to unveil its pot plan.
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Were embracing the new laws, and we are
allowing patrons to bring in cannabis both into
the festival and to the camping ground, said
organizer Gabriel Mattachione, who is president
of Beyond Oz productions. Festival goers can
bring in 10 grams of pot per day, but it has to
be pre-rolled. Using standard issue joint sizing,
with each joint being about half a gram, that
works out to about 20 joints a pop, Mattachione
said. Campers have a bit more leeway, and can
bring in as much as 28 grams of pot in either
rolled or loose leaf form, he said. Because our
campings not truly inside the festival grounds
we thought, Okay what would you be allowed to
bring to your hotel? and we used those
guidelines as a parameter, said Mattachione.
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Smoking and non-smoking sections Smokers wont
be able to light up willy-nilly, Mattachione
said. Theyll have to stay in a smoking section,
which has capacity for about 900
people. Mattachione said the view from the
smoking section is good but not the best, and
that its mainly designed for people to smoke
quickly and leave. There is also a second smoking
section in the VIP area, which will have a better
view, Mattachione said. Riverfest Elora,
Hillside developing pot plans Not all music
festivals are taking this approach some like
Riverfest Elora said they will meet with the
OPP, the township and other authorities before
making any decisions. Others, like Hillside
Festival in Guelph, are planning to rely on the
goodwill of attendees. Due to Hillsides small
venue, there arent any designated smoking areas,
but smoking is prohibited anywhere less than nine
meters or just shy of a school bus length from
eating or drinking areas, said Marie Zimmerman,
the festivals executive director.
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Those areas will be well-marked with signs that
say no smoking or vaping of any substance is
allowed. Most people are aware theres a
spectrum of responses to smoking especially in
public places. So were relying on their common
sense but also their kindness and their
compassion for other people. said
Zimmerman. Our festival-goers tend to be guided
by intuitive benevolence, which we truly
appreciate. Smoking corrals extremely
unattractive Gary Genosko, a professor at the
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
whos studied cannabis, called Ever Afters plan
as a fairly sensible solution, and that
treating cannabis in roughly the same way as
tobacco is a popular strategy. Still, Genosko
said he wonders how well the smoking corrals will
work in practice.
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 Organizers say those who try to smoke outside
designated smoking areas risk being
ticketed.(EverAfterMusicFest/Facebook) Lets
face it, smoking pens and smoking corrals are
extremely unattractive it depends on the
weather how safe it is to access those places,
Genosko said. Its hit and miss proposal, but
now that we have essentially no smoking of
anything inside any venue anywhere in most of
Canada its going to be difficult to find a
compromise solution.
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Mattachione said poeple who do try to smoke
within the crowd, risk being ticketed. There will
be paid police duty on-site, as well as tobacco
enforcement officers sent by the region. We
advise everyone to abide by the rules, but
theres always some rule breakers in every
crowd, he said.
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