The Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival is the longest running cannabis rights festival in the United States, held annually in Madison, Wisconsin since 1971.
Jack Herer and Dana Beal at the 1989 festival
The event in 2006
Ben Masel at the 2008 festival. Masel initiated the festival in 1971 and oversaw its organization until his death.
Jack Herer
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Jack Herer, sometimes called the "Emperor of Hemp", was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of the 1985 book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Herer founded and served as the director of t
Jack Herer in Washington, DC, in 1989.
Herer speaking at the 2009 Hempstalk Festival, moments before his second heart attack