It's No Coincidence The Sign Is Green. Silverdome Welcomes First International Cannabis Convention

Pontiac - A postcard-sized announcement for "The First International Cannabis Convention" featuring a giant marijuana plant bursting through the Silverdome roof began showing up in local businesses this past week. City approval of events at the formerly city-owned Silverdome is not required, said Gross, who also noted the City Council recently passed a moratorium on medical marijuana initiatives or businesses operating within the city. The convention is planned for Oct. 29-31 and will feature entertainers, exhibits, vendors, guest speakers, "friendly vaporization tents" and edibles for qualifying patients with current medical marijuana cards. Michigan's medical marijuana law was approved in November 2008. The full law went into effect in April 2009, and patients began applying to the state department of health for ID cards to allow them to use marijuana legally under a doctor's care. "Earlier this year, one of these in San Francisco drew more than 25,000 people, and there wasn't one incident, injury or arrest," said Kresty. "We aren't selling, distributing or trading marijuana. "We hope to draw 50,000 people over the three days," he said. "We think it will also be big revenue generator for area hotels, restaurants and other businesses."

Whoa Sherlock, slow down. You can't actually think that the marijuana festival will be a big revenue generator for Detroit restaurants and hotels do you? I mean I don't have much experience in the weed game but if there is one thing I know about potheads it's that they hate food and can stay awake for extremely long periods of time so we should get them outta town.



Unleashing an army of stoners on the Detroit economy would be devastating. The restaurants and hotels in the area would probably crumble under the workload and demand that they go back to the days of no customers. I think our best bet would be to send these 50,000 consumers away when our economy is hurting most and continue on the path we've been on so far. It's worked pretty well up till this point.