Oklahoma got to host its first Cannabis Cup since the state legalized medical marijuana in the past year.
Usually these events don’t catch too much attention, because things go as planned. Planned meaning that people go to the event, they have a good time and then they go home to possibly say that they attended, or promote a product they saw a vendor come up with and find really cool. That apparently is not what took place, even within the first day of the event.
There were reports being posted across Facebook that people were having to wait sometimes up to 5 hours in line to enter, a half-mile walk from car parking ($20) to the entrance that included traveling through thick mud, no ADA access, no food vendors and water being $3-$4 if you could manage to find a vendor with water. So many people had negative things to say about the event that Oklahomans for Cannabis on Facebook posted about it.
Link to Facebook post here.
The responses did not fail to validate the post about the situation taking place at the event being held by High Times. People were reporting that they were becoming light headed from standing in the heat for so long and others were passing out and having to be carried away by EMT personnel. Even members of the media were having difficulty at the event.
One would be lead to believe that perhaps High Times was not expecting this sort of issue to take place or had not planned for these types of issues, but another post revealed that wasn’t quite true either.
Here are some images taken at the event so that people can get an idea of what the lines and muddy areas looked like.
Texas Veterans for Medical Marijuana had choice words for what they saw the event as. Taking advantage of marijuana culture for money. Judging by the comments they tell the reader to look at, one could easily come to the same conclusion as to this being what has taken place.
Link to Facebook post here.
Tickets were on sale for $62.90 general admission or $99.70 for a VIP ticket. At this cost, Oklahomans are right to be upset.
My Wife & I were the 1st people allowed in because I am a double amputee & was on a little electric scooter. Once inside we started asking where do we go, where is the VIP sections, were do we get our bag with the free t-shirt & magazines. Where are the contests being held. Then we were told we had to go around the lake to get to the village. We encountered a large mud pit with literally no way around it. Several helpers told us to just do the best we could to get around the lake.There was a man in a wheelchair with us, wheeling himself around this lake. Finally a worker pulled up & said they had a shuttle for us, to wait there. 20 minutes later, no shuttle. A group of people helped us & the other man get thru the mud. Once to the other side, still no bag, no contest, little or no water, nothing to eat. Very very hard to get around on my scooter let alone get around in a wheelchair. We finally gave up & headed back around the lake. A shuttle did stop and pick us up. Back to the other side we went into the VIP section by the stage. There we got a couple slices of pizza, a little package of cookies & a small warm water. When a couple of vendors were giving away their freebies, they throw them from the stage. If you were in a wheelchair forget it, you weren’t getting anything. I even had a wristband to get me right up front, did no good. While we enjoyed seeing on the vendor items, the whole experience was very disappointing. It cost me $200 for VIP tickets, I feel like we received General Admission tickets.
Forgot to mention, days prior to the event they had a promo code for free tickets. So the promo code really fucked the people who actually spent money and crowded it with people who had no intention on paying for the cup. Luckily, it didn’t happen to me but if I woulda paid I would have definitely been pissed off!