Source: SpokesmanReview newspaper  Spokane,  52797 Page A4

60 Arrested At ProPot Festival

Sixty people were arrested over the weekend at the eighth annual 
Weedstock Festival, a promarijuana event that police said caused less 
trouble than expected this year.

``It think it went very smoothly,'' Sheriff William Fillbach said. ``If 
they took over the town or something, you could have had a mess.

Organizers said about 3,500 people attended. From Friday to Monday 
night, police made 42 drug arrests and 18 nondrug arrests. They also 
issued 76 traffic citations and 341 traffic warnings.

Last year, 130 people were arrested. Over the weekend, a 20yearold man 
was hospitalized after he was beaten. He told authorities he had been 
using marijuana and amphetamines since Friday and did not know or 
remember his assailants.

A 17yearold boy was hospitalized after police saw him trying to cross 
a highway. Officers said he told them he had sprayed himself with liquid 
LSD. They said he was disoriented and combative when officers stopped 
him. Speakers addressed the crowd on decriminalizing marijuana and 
regional bands played on despite scattered rain that turned 80 acres of 
farm fields into muddy bogs.