<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of CNN at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/us/seattle-police-doritos-hempfest/?hpt=ju_c2">http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/us/seattle-police-doritos-hempfest/?hpt=ju_c2</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><h1 style="padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-size: 30px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 33px; width: 600px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); text-align: left; ">Doritos on menu at Seattle Hempfest, courtesy of local police</h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: left; "><br></strong></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: left; ">(CNN)</strong><span style="text-align: left; "> -- Sure, it's a veiled shot at stoners, but it also shows cops can have a sense of humor about marijuana legalization.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; ">The Seattle Police Department announced on its Twitter feed that officers will attend the city's Hemofest </span><span style="text-align: left; ">to hand out Doritos and literature explaining the new rules surrounding recreational marijuana use in the state</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Minor marijuana possession has been the police department's lowest priority since 2003, but voters last year cast ballots to make recreational use legal.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; ">Before Seattle residents start farming ganja on their stoops, the police </span><a href="http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2012/11/09/marijwhatnow-a-guide-to-legal-marijuana-use-in-seattle/" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; text-align: left; ">want to make a few things clear</a><span style="text-align: left; "> (such as, you can't grow marijuana on your stoop yet).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">"Yes, we will be @seattlehempfest. But we'll be giving out @Doritos & #Marijwhatnow literature. Please make a note of it. See you Saturday!" read the Wednesday tweet.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Initiative 502 states that beginning December 6 residents over 21 years old may possess up to an ounce of pot for personal use. There are also guidelines for the possession of oils and edibles.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Hempfest,</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> which begins Friday and runs through Sunday, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">says its goal is "to educate the public on the myriad of potential benefits offered by the cannabis plant, including the medicinal, industrial, agricultural, economic, environmental, and other benefits and applications."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The Wednesday tweet set off a</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> witty back-and-forth with residents </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">who seem charmed by the police department's light-hearted means of educating the public on a serious matter.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">But it didn't come without rumor and innuendo.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Responding to one such vicious affont, the department tweeted, "Please ignore maliciously false reports that we're giving out Bugles at @seattlehempfest. We would never, ever do that."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">--------------------</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police will attend the Seattle Hempfest, pictured in 2004, to hand out Doritos and marijuana literature Saturday.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img src="cid:A8E09314-6E7D-4D38-8621-BB6858639944" alt="130815163406-seattle-hempfest-story-top.jpg" id="A8E09314-6E7D-4D38-8621-BB6858639944" width="640" height="360"></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>