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Newsbrief:
NORML
Not
Allowed
at
Indiana
State
Fair
8/16/02
Indiana NORML (http://www.innorml.org),
a Hoosier affiliate of national NORML was refused a booth at the Exposition
Center during this year's Indiana State Fair. According to the Indianapolis
Star, fair employees told NORML no booths were available, but a NORML employee
discovered that the State Fair continued to solicit for booth rentals via
e-mail.
State Fair explanations were
less than convincing. Andy Klotz, spokesman for the State Fair, claimed
that the e-mail was a mistake due to a "computer deal, something about
a folder being full," but then admitted that the Fair Director, Bill Stinson,
believed there should not be a booth at the fair that encouraged an illegal
activity. The fair rents out booths to vendors and a wide variety
of political candidates and causes.
Indiana NORML told the Star
it had planned to limit discussion to growing industrial hemp, a topic
suited to a largely agricultural show that draws many thousands of visitors
from around Indiana to see livestock shows, dog pageants, watermelon seed-spitting
contests and the world's largest pig, among many other events. The
fair prides itself on having all of its mass transportation vehicles --
tractors trailing wooden benches -- run on corn-based ethanol, and although
NORML was advocating another crop that could also produce such environment-friendly
fuels and revitalize Indiana's agriculture sector, there is no room at
the fair.
Indiana NORML is considering
filing a lawsuit, the Star reported.
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