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Hash Bash is an annual event held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on the first Saturday of April. The event is a collection of speeches, live music, street vending, and the occasional civil disobedience centered around the goal of reforming federal, state, and local marijuana laws. The first Hash Bash was held in 1971 to protest the 10-year prison sentence given to cultural activist John Sinclair (poet) for possession of two marijuana joints.

Ann Arbor has very lenient laws regarding the possession of marijuana - a $25 fine and a simple civil infraction rather than a misdemeanor or felony. (See Marijuana laws in Ann Arbor, Michigan.) Even so, the campus of the University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, and anyone caught with marijuana on any campus location is subject to the regular state marijuana laws. As this is the case, there is a separate but heavily related event following Hash Bash just off campus known as the Monroe Street Fair, where there is usually a live show accompaning the many street vendors selling extravagant bongs and other marijuana paraphernalia, along with a Michigan NORML booth.

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