2A - Wednesday, April 4, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: TUESDAY: THURSDAY: The Extremist Arbor Anecdotes M -- --- Campus Characters FRIDAY: Explained The first'High Noon' march Thirty-five years ago, students couldn't RSVP to Hash Bash on Facebook.com - word-of-mouth and fliers were the only advertise- ments for the event. But the lack of easy, online publicity didn't stop scores of students from gathering for the first-ever Hash Bash during the first weekend of April in 1972. The first Hash Bash was held as a celebration after the success of the "Free John Now" campaign that arouse in response to the incarcera- tion of political activist and Ann Arbor local, John Sinclair. Sinclair was arrested and sen- tenced to 10 years in prison for the possession of two marijuana joints in July 1969. He quickly became an icon of the counter-cluture movement and inspired a number of protests around the country. John Lennon and Yoko Ono sponsored a Free John Now rally at Crisler Arena on Dec. 10,1971. They argued that Sinclair's incarceration had been cruel and unusual punish- ment and that Sinclair was convict- ed as a result of police entrapment. Three days after the rally at Crisler Arena, Sinclair's case was re-examined by the Michigan Supreme Court. He was released from prison on Dec. 13, 1971. The first Hash Bash occurred three and a half months after Sin- clair's release from jail. The leaders of the 1960s counterculture, many of them students and young adults living in Ann Arbor, were promi- nent participants in the first Hash Bash. The event included speeches, demonstrations in favor of mari- juana legalization, music and street vending. Police officers have often turned a blind eyeto some of the drug use that typically accompanies the festival. Over the years, student atten- dance at the Hash Bash "High Noon" march on the Diag has waned. But enthusiasts and pro-marijuana advocates have continued hold- ing the event in Ann Arbor partly because of its history and the city's relatively lax marijuana laws. In Ann Arbor (excepton campus, which is under state law), posses- sion of marijuana is a civil infrac- tion rather than a criminal offense. Organizers at the first event hoped it would become a tradi- tion. "The hash festival shouldfbecome an annual affair, and we hope to see everybody out here again next year," one organizer told The Mich- igan Daily at the time. Thirty-five years later, the tradi- tion is still alive. ALLISON PINCUS - This article draws on sources from theBentley Historical Library FIL E PH(C Pickney Community High School senior Jon Lozer stands stuck at the bottom of a Law School window well after he climbed down to retrieve a frisbee during Hash Bash on April 1, 2006. 413 E. 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