Permit, Insurance Issues Cancel Annual Hempfest

Festival May Be Rescheduled

KOIN

EUGENE, Oregon — Permit and insurance issues caused organizers to cancel the annual Emerald Empire Hempfest Celebration scheduled for this past weekend.

Organizers were denied a parks permit because of concerns over illegal drug use at last year’s festival. Planners were negotiating with police to improve security when they discovered they couldn’t have a beer garden, a significant source of revenue.

Organizers then changed their plans and arranged to move to a private campground along the McKenzie River, but county regulations required them to pay $2,800, money they don’t have, for a permit. They attempted to get enough money but their insurer told them they weren’t covered for camping.

Banners were put out at the campsite the group had planned to use, to inform anyone that had not yet heard, about the cancellation.

The festival promotes non-drug aspects of the marijuana plant, from foods made with hemp seeds to clothes made from hemp fiber. Those products come from a strain of the plant that has no THC, the ingredient that creates the high.

Organizers are attempting to still hold the festival later this summer.

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