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Cannabis at the Fair

Published on July 15, 2019 by oz. staff

You can enter your homegrown bud in the Grand Forks Fall Fair this year.

For the first time the small town fair will include cannabis as a ‘farm good’ that can be entered to win ribbons by expert judges.

“Canada has legalized cannabis. Welcome this plant to the Fair!” says the the Exhibitor’s Handbook.

All entries need to be between three and five grams, in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid.

There are two categories open —indoor and outdoor.

Grand Forks, along the Washington state border, is in BC’s Kootenay region, where growing your own is known to be old hat. There should be some great entries. We would love to try Uncle Jimmy’s Northern Lights or Auntie Edna’s Maui Wowie. Envy the judges.

The Grand Forks and District Fall Fair happens Sept. 7-8.

UPDATE: August 23

Grand Forks has the most chill mayor.

Mayor Brian Taylor — who is apparently “a bit of an expert in the cannabis department” — will be a judge in the small B.C. town’s cannabis category at the Fall Fair.

Taylor is a longtime advocate. He’s one of the founders of the B.C. Marijuana Party, and he led the party during the 2001 provincial election.

For the first time in its history, the small town fair will include cannabis as a ‘farm good’ that can be entered to win ribbons by expert judges. All entries need to be between three and five grams, in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid. There are two categories open — indoor and outdoor.

Cannabis will be taken off-site for judgment so as not to “smell up the quilts.”

Grand Forks, along the Washington state border, is in BC’s Kootenay region, where growing your own is known to be old hat. There should be some great entries. The Grand Forks and District Fall Fair happens Sept. 7-8.

It’s far different from how Revelstoke is handling cannabis.