Yeah, it was as much fun as I had imagined. I packed all I possibly could into my allotted five minutes.

“Toke of the Town editor Steve Elliott speaks to the Seattle Hempfest crowd about ‘Big Pharma’, prohibitionists telling a lot of lies and cannabis as a neuroprotectant,” YouTube uploader editor Steve Elliott speaks to the Seattle Hempfest crowd about ‘Big Pharma’, prohibitionists telling a lot of lies and cannabis as a neuroprotectant,” YouTube uploader RestoreHemp said. “He urges people to seek out the scientific truth about marijuana for themselves and join the fight to end prohibition.

“Elliott finishes by showing how cannabis connects us to the past and to each other and also unites us with our human cultural history.”

After years of dreaming about it, last Friday — a week ago today — I spoke for the first time at Seattle Hempfest.