T-shirt vintage 1978 Ann Arbor achats Hash Bash / original assez rare survivant

This is a raresurviving t-shirts from the 7th Hash Bash on April 1, 1978. It was acool, partially cloudy Saturday, and most there had jackets on but a few pickedup t-shirts to wear later.

This originalsurvivor with the hemp leaf & flying saucer design is pretty striking. Itmight well be the only shirt remaining in existence, although it appears a bittenuous at that.

Well worn and cutinto a punkish style at the time, this looks like it's previous owner mighthave been a big fan of local musician Iggy Pop.

This appears to bea LARGE shirt. It is missing all tags, and as you can see, has been stained andaltered thru a very hard life, yet still clings to its historic past.

Time to find a newhome with a Hash Bash Historian.

HashBash is an annual event held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the first Saturday ofApril at high noon on the University of Michigan Diag. A collection ofspeeches, live music, street vending and occasional civil disobedience arecentered on the goal of reforming federal, state, and local marijuana laws.

Thefirst Hash Bash was held on Saturday, April 1 1972 in response to the March 9th1972 decision by Michigan Supreme Court declaring unconstitutional the law usedto convict cultural activist John Sinclair for possession of two marijuanajoints. This action left the State of Michigan without a law prohibiting theuse of marijuana until after the weekend of April 1 1972.

AnnArbor has very lenient laws regarding the possession of marijuana. The secondannual Hash Bash, in 1973, attracted approximately 3,000 participants. Thatyear, state representative Perry Bullard, a proponent of marijuanalegalization, attended and smoked marijuana, an act which later earned himcriticism from political opponents.

HashBash participants did not encounter significant police interference until theseventh annual event, in 1978, when local police booked, cited, photographed,and released those participants alleged to be using illegal substances.