Over 50 years after the seminal music festival, a federal appeals court considered competing claims to use the name for the sale of recreational marijuana.
The band Quill plays on stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., on August 16, 1969. (Photo by Lisa Law courtesy of National Museum of American History via Courthouse News)
MANHATTAN (CN) The Second Circuit heard spirited debate Monday on recent efforts by the Woodstock Music Festival to cash in on the cannabis craze now that pot’s crossover from counterculture to mainstream is somewhat cemented.
Woodstock Ventures LLC, the brand behind the 1969 festival synonymous with sex, drugs and rock and roll, made its first sale of Woodstock-branded cannabis on Dec. 16, 2016, in Colorado an early adopter of the legalization movement.