Northern Nights Music Fest to Have Recreational Cannabis Sales & Consumption

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Northern Nights Music Fest to Have Recreational
Cannabis Sales Consumption
BY https//popcann.com/
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The festival in the heart of the Emerald
Triangle will be one of the first overnight,
three-day festivals in the U.S. to legally allow
recreational cannabis sales and
consumption. Californias Northern Nights Music
Festival is continuing to push for the
normalization of cannabis at live events as the
annual festival announces the legal sale and
consumption of weed. In the heart of the Emerald
Triangle (the United States largest cannabis
producing region made up of Humboldt, Mendocino,
and Trinity Counties), Northern Nights will be a
forerunner in overnight music festivals that is
complaint with legal cannabis sales and
consumption.
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We are going to have a cannabis retail and
consumption area that goes by the name of the
Tree Lounge. It is 21 and over area and cannabis
sales and consumption are restricted to that
area, says Northern Nights co-founder and
compliance manager Peter Huson. Essentially it
is an onsite temporary dispensary. It has all the
same rules you would have at a dispensary, its
just inside a festival.The Tree Lounge will
have its own curated stage with live music
including local hip-hop crews, surprise sets and
DJs spinning dance hall, reggae and more. In
addition, the area will feature activities such
as CBD yoga, workshops, movement classes with
cannabis and more.Local Emerald Triangle growers
will be on hand to sell their strains and educate
attendees about their product and where it comes
from.
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In the Tree Lounge, we are going to highlight
the history and the culture and the small
cannabis farmers of Humboldt and Mendocino
counties, says Northern Nights co-founder Andrew
Blap. You can come meet the farmers and see the
people who have been growing weed for you for
years. You never really put a face to the name,
but now with legalization you can.Cannabis
growers will also be sponsors of the Lounge and
provide activities for consumers.These sponsors
are really getting involved with different
activations. For example, local grower Flow
Kana is going to do a farm to bong competition.
It will take local produce and vegetables and
youre going to be able to carve a bong and the
winner will get announced each day, Blap
tells Billboard. If we can promote some of the
local brands then these attendees are going to
think about that when they are buying weed the
rest of the year.
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Northern Nights festival is located in the
scenic, wooded atmosphere on the border of
Humboldt and Mendocino Counties. Prior to the
legalization of recreational cannabis use in the
California, the festival was compliant with
regulations that allowed designated consumption
areas for those with medical licenses to use
marijuana. Cannabis was officially legal in
January of 2018, but open consumption was
strictly relegated to county fairgrounds.In
September of 2018, the state introduced bill AB
2020 which allowed for counties to provide
temporary permits for events with recreational
use outside of fairgrounds. With the help from
Northern Nights organizers, Humboldt County was
swift to provide a permit for the summer festival
taking place from July 19-21 partially in their
jurisdiction.
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We are right in the middle of the Emerald
Triangle on the border of Humboldt and Mendocino
county. A lot of our staff and patrons are people
that live and work around there and are related
to the industry, says Northern Nights talent and
art director Matty Roberts.California law does
not allow for the recreational consumption of
alcohol and cannabis in the same area, so
Northern Nights has taken advantage of the fact
that it resides in two counties. Cannabis
consumption will be allowed on the Humboldt
County side of the event, while alcohol
consumption will be allowed on the Mendocino side
without cannabis.
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Everyone is going to be comfortable in both the
alcohol and the cannabis spaces, Huson
tells Billboard. We separated them by county
because our event happens on the county line with
the idea that you can demonstrate compliance and
responsible management of these areas. We want to
help get to a point in the future where you could
have both cannabis and alcohol in the same county
and at the same event.Huson compares the Tree
Lounge to 21-and-over beer gardens found at many
music festivals across the country. The legal
sale and consumption will also eliminate the need
for festival-goers travel with cannabis or sneak
marijuana into the event.The normalization of
cannabis is a really positive thing, says
Roberts. To be part of that, and to be a leader
in that, were very honored and truly humbled to
get to do that.Northern Nights returns to
Humboldt and Mendocino Country at the Cooks
Valley Campground from July 19-21. For more
information on the Tree Lounge, tickets and
lineup, head here.Concert cannabis in Canada
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