“Stay High,” read the T-shirt worn by a reveller at Saturday’s Ontario Cannabis Festival in Kitchener.

Almost everyone, other than the police officers, security guards and this reporter, followed the order.

“So far I’ve smoked two joints today,” Mitchell Bernier, 23, of Kitchener said in the early afternoon as music blasted at the festival at Bingemans. “I feel great, uplifted. This is a great vibe. I love it.”

Not long ago, this gathering would have been against the law. Pot was legalized in Canada last October.

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