Living Colour, Manu Chao, Nas & Damian Marley to Play Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival

To miss this festival, you’d have to be insane in the membrane. (See what we did there?)

This year, Cypress Hill’s annual SmokeOut Festival, a celebration of music and marijuana-related activism, comes a month before the vote on California’s Proposition 19, a ballot measure that, if passed, would allow marijuana to be legalized, taxed and regulated in a manner similar to alcohol.

As such, Cypress Hill’s pulling out all the stops and have a pretty formidable lineup for this year’s festival, including Incubus (on their only North American date), MGMT, Deadmau5, Manu Chao, Nas & Damian Marley, Living Colour (!) as well as the herb-loving rappers themselves performing their landmark 1991 self-titled album.

In addition to music, the SmokeOut Festival features a cannabis-centric expo aimed “to educate the public on the myriad of potential benefits offered by the Cannabis plant, including the medicinal, industrial, agricultural, economic, environmental and other benefits and applications,” according to the festival website. The expo will feature vendors, legal experts, panels, film screenings, information on medical marijuana and something called the “Massive Munchie Gardens.”

The 2010 SmokeOut Festival will be held Oct. 16 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. Tickets cost $75. For more information, check out the festival website.

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