60 Arrested At ProPot Festival

Sixty people were arrested over the weekend at the eighth annual
Weedstock Festival, a promarijuana event that police said caused less
trouble than expected this year.

``It think it went very smoothly,'' Sheriff William Fillbach said. ``If
they took over the town or something, you could have had a mess.

Organizers said about 3,500 people attended. From Friday to Monday
night, police made 42 drug arrests and 18 nondrug arrests. They also
issued 76 traffic citations and 341 traffic warnings.

Last year, 130 people were arrested. Over the weekend, a 20yearold man
was hospitalized after he was beaten. He told authorities he had been
using marijuana and amphetamines since Friday and did not know or
remember his assailants.

A 17yearold boy was hospitalized after police saw him trying to cross
a highway. Officers said he told them he had sprayed himself with liquid
LSD. They said he was disoriented and combative when officers stopped
him. Speakers addressed the crowd on decriminalizing marijuana and
regional bands played on despite scattered rain that turned 80 acres of
farm fields into muddy bogs.