Home Grown

august 14, 2003  12:19 am
Home Grown
Nine years ago a high-school dropout and daily pot smoker attended his first Hempfest. That teenager, Dominic Holden, got involved and helped turn a backwater hippie smoke-out into the largest marijuana-law reform rally in the world; last year's crowd swelled to 175,000. Holden doesn't smoke pot anymore, but putting down the bong didn't quell his interest in drug-law reform in the slightest. Hannah Levin talks to the 26-year-old activist as he and his fellow organizers prepare for this weekend's Hempfest.