Obama Tuesday Madison rally at site of next weekend’s Harvest Fest
MADISON: Next Tuesday, President Barack Obama will be coming to Madison and headlining a political rally on the University of Wisconsin campus downtown.
The event will be on Library Mall, which just a few days later, on Saturday Oct. 2 and Sunday, Oct. 3, will be the location of the 40th Annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival.
The festival, entering it’s fifth decade, has been a fall fixture in Madison, even outdrawing the university’s football team back when the team was not the powerhouse of recent years.
Harvest Fest, which began as a free speech/anti-war protest in 1971, went on to become the Midwest’s most enduring cannabis festival. But its long existence also speaks to the seeming intractability of marijuana prohibition. Generations of UW students who attended the festival literally have grown gray waiting for the laws to be changed.
