8th annual Michigan Marijuana Conference

TheMan13 said:

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I saw they were having another one in September in Grand Rapids too.

Great Lakes genetics will be there along with the regular support

I didn't think that the Traverse city area was very marijuana friendly.

I never thought it was either, but the show's there again for the 8th year?

I was talking to one of the guys giving a class the other day, and he sold me pretty hard on the Traverse City event. I'm gonna try and make it way over there for it, but that's a long drive for me...

I'll buy you a cheeseburger and fries to help persuade you.

Rrog said:

I never thought it was either, but the show's there again for the 8th year?

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Actually it is not annual, but simply the 8th conference with an average of two per year. I believe last year was the first at Grand Traverse Resort. The 7th was in Grand Rapids in March and when it returns in September it will be the 9th. I'm not following either

Ah. Last year was the first up north. I guess it went well, from what I recall from the forum posting. I didn't go myself. I think I will this year

We've been talking about getting a booth even though we can't vend meds.
Not sure what Belle's plan is yet.

It's medium in Gran Traverse. Prosecutor is not bad. State cops are all a bunch of douchboys. Traverse Narcs Team second only to Bay Area narcs for corruption.

That doesn't sound too friendly

State boys just keep getting dismissed by the prosecutor.
So they are busy in Wexford where Tony Badovinic it's their little fanboy....

I appreciate your insight into this

The PAC is workin for a medication area close by.
Hopefully with a shuttle service

Any of you folks who have been to one of these events in the past, what is it like? I'm trying to decide on whether or not it's worth driving out to the one in the Traverse area since it would be at least a four hour drive for me (probably more like 5 hours knowing the way my wife has to stop every hour to pee lol) and it would cost me quite a bit of gas/lodging money. I'm thinking about just skipping this next one and attending the next one in Grand Rapids (GR is just a little over a 90 minute drive from where I live in Detroit) only instead of going to both conferences. Is it comparable to the MMM Expo at The Roostertail? Could we all have a brief description of what the Conference is like? What kind of classes/seminars are there? What is the size of this event like? Has there been police interference in the past? What kind of crowd does this event draw out? What are the ticket prices? Anything else you feel like describing?

NurseNancy420 said:

The PAC is workin for a medication area close by.
Hopefully with a shuttle service

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Perhaps I can volunteer or donate some clones or something this time around to help out. I will definitely remember to bring those wallet-card herb grinders this time so you can slap a SeedPac sticker on each one and give them to people. I was lucky enough to get 2 display racks full of them for free. Pretty cool and quick yet completely off topic story on how I got the card grinders:

Went into a local gas station to buy a drink and when I saw them on the counter I asked the cashier how much they were charging for them because everywhere else I saw selling them were asking ridiculous rip-off prices. He responded with "Why? Do you want some?". I told him no thanks, I was just asking because I was curious but I couldn't really afford anything like that at the time. He responded with "No, here just take them" and pulled out a plastic bag and stuck BOTH display cases full of them into the bag, then he asked me with his choppy-English Arabic accent "Do you like crushers too?" as he made a hand rotating motion, implying he was talking about herb grinders. I said "hell yea I like them!" and he proceeded to pull about 25 brand new grinders out of one of the cabinets behind the counter, and put them into the bag, then said "Here, take some glass smoking pipes too!" and stuck about 15-20 glass spoon bowls into the bag, then said "That will be a dollar and eighty nine cents please" as I was trying to pick my jaw up off the floor because of this totally awesome kind and selfless act I had just had the pleasure of being gifted. I didn't know what to say besides "Thank you man! Thank you so much! I have alot of people who will be very happy to have some of this stuff." Ever since then, I've been throwing glass pipes and grinders in as free gifts whenever one of my patients picks meds up from me, and giving them away to my toker friends. The thought crossed my mind that he may have been in the middle of robbing the place, with the real cashier tied up in the back room or something and he was just trying to get me to leave as soon as possible but then I remembered that he operated the register like he had been doing it for a long time and he behaved perfectly calm and cool, the exact opposite of how the average crook-in-the-middle-of-armed-robbery would behave.

But yea, sorry for the ADD fueled tangential rambling! lol I'm kinda baked so forgive me for wasting your time with my story lol

But seriously, it would be a pretty cool way to promote SP at the conference. If I decide not to go, I could ship them to you if you are actually interested. I can pay shipping costs for them but I would take them all out of the display cases to save a few bucks on shipping costs.

OK, I'm finished rambling on and on now lol

Anyone has a list of winners? I heard glue got 2nd place.

Maya36459 said:

Anyone has a list of winners? I heard glue got 2nd place.

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No I havent.
I know the vendors felt like the losers. Very poor turn out

I stopped by for a minute too see Motarebel, grabbed 7 packs of his gear for the collection. Place was slow, and Mota was thinkin of bailing home early.

I was informed that a certain MI HT cup winner was looking to take the top 5 in all the flower categories.

I was scheduled at the shop Friday and Saturday, so I didn't bother entering the 818. I will be entering the Sour in the hybrid category for the Grand Rapids event though.