Editor's Note: If true decriminalization is a long shot, which it seems to be (if legislators are going to legalize it, they're surely going to want to regulate it and tax it), purists might want to get behind Measure 91 rather than oppose it and leave Oregon's marijuana industry right where it stands now–illegal.
"This is the only place in Portland where there will be no marijuana smoking this weekend," Paul Stanford said, sitting under a canopy at the opening day of Hempstalk. "That's what the police require ... we have to meet their preconceived misconceptions."
If he comes across as a bit surly, that's because he is. The Oregon marijuana activist and founder of Portland's annual cannabis festival has been fighting tooth and nail with city officials, bickering over a seemingly unsolvable problem at Hempstalk: how to stop people from getting high.
