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Hempfest is a free music festival and educational rally that has occurred almost every year in April on the URI quad for at least a decade.

The festival is run by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and its purpose is to raise awareness about the harms of the war on drugs, and bring students, faculty, staff, and the greater community together to promote public-health and human rights-based ideas and policies about drug use in our society as an alternative to prohibition and criminalization.

The event typically includes live music throughout the day, numerous speakers, dozens of vendors, tables for student organizations and other non-profit organizations, and thousands of people, many of them students.

This year’s event will also include a vigil to remember the victims of the drug war. Hempfest is a pivotal part of SSDP’s role at URI; it allows us to achieve an outreach to the student community and beyond and rally people behind change on a scale that would be extremely difficult to replicate through smaller events and interactions with the student body.

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