The Stranger, 08 May 2013 – And the Hippies Win-Again Breaking news, everyone: It turns out that downtown business groups and pot-smoking hippies don’t always get along. The powerful Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) sent a letter asking the city to deny Hempfest’s permit this year-it is scheduled for the third weekend in August-saying the pot festival, which boasts hundreds of thousands of attendees, has outgrown Myrtle Edwards Park.