Dennis Forel has spent more than a decade riding a penny-farthing around the California State Fair. It’s given him a singular perspective on how the event has changed over time, as new exhibitions dot the grounds. The cannabis exhibition, he says, has never been better.
“Three years ago you went off to a very far-off part of the fairgrounds and you were not a part of the fair, you were just over there smoking your marijuana,” Forel said as he stood in the Sacramento heat last weekend. “Now you are part of the fair.”
Forel’s observations from atop a 4-foot-tall bicycle wheel are borne out by the facts…