# The last Dopefest **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 18, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945 "2025-11-18T01:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/1 "2025-11-18T01:39:00Z")
When? Depends on The Powers That Be, I guess. Where should it be? Do we meet back where it all started, Chicago? East Coast? West Coast? Somewhere in the middle? For how long? Potluck or cheap eats? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/2 "2025-11-18T01:42:13Z")
I vote Chicago. 🙂 (I live in Chicago but yeah…where it started so a little more reason) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/3 "2025-11-18T01:46:28Z")
Chicago is a very good choice. Roughly central location and where SD started. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/4 "2025-11-18T01:47:36Z")
Why the “last” Dopefest? Do you know something you’re not telling the rest of us? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/5 "2025-11-18T01:49:55Z")
No, wild conjecture and panic is in the air. 😀 2 threads in ATMB. Now 3. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/6 "2025-11-18T01:50:08Z")
I’m not saying other Dopefests can’t take place between now and the undetermined then. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/7 "2025-11-18T02:23:16Z")
Nice! When was the last true Dopefest? A couple of months ago I met a Doper in real life for the first time. We were at the same music festival. It was a hoot. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/8 "2025-11-18T02:48:36Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > A couple of months ago I met a Doper in real life for the first time. Just out of curiosity, how did you recognize each other? Did your nametag say ‘hajario’? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/9 "2025-11-18T02:54:46Z")
FYI, do _not_ shout out “Any other Dopers here?” at the airport. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/10 "2025-11-18T03:19:45Z")
That explains a lot about what happened last time I was in an airport. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/11 "2025-11-18T03:31:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > FYI, do _not_ shout out “Any other Dopers here?” at the airport > [@hajario](#): > > A couple of months ago I met a Doper in real life for the first time. We were at the same music festival. Or a deadhead fest. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/12 "2025-11-18T03:32:15Z")
Same caveat l-different reason. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/13 "2025-11-18T03:41:10Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Or a deadhead fest. Actually it was a Deadhead fest. It came up in a thread that we were both attending and we exchanged phone numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/14 "2025-11-18T03:51:01Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Chicago is a very good choice. > Roughly central location and where SD started. I’d agree, but I think that there are a number of us non-Americans who are a little leery about visiting the United States right now, or just plain unwilling to. Chicago would be a fine idea for the reasons you state, but perhaps not for a few years. In the interim, I’d suggest Toronto. Just as central as Chicago, easy to get to from all over the US and Canada, and certainly doable for our overseas friends. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/15 "2025-11-18T03:52:51Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Chicago would be a fine idea for the reasons you state, but perhaps not for a few years. In the interim, I’d suggest Toronto. Just as central as Chicago, easy to get to from all over the US and Canada, and certainly doable for our overseas friends. …and you can shout, “Any Dopers here?” in the airport without getting arrested, that shit’s legal now! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/16 "2025-11-18T04:06:15Z")
Maybe not so good for our U.S.A.ers when the time comes, though. I would suggest Zooming (or the equivalent) for those that can’t come in person. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/17 "2025-11-18T04:08:07Z")
Federales will jump on your shit so fast you would think manure is going for $5,000 a lb. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/18 "2025-11-18T04:16:51Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Actually it was a Deadhead fest. Perfect! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/19 "2025-11-18T04:29:23Z")
Not so much. Airports are definitely Federal but TSA doesn’t care about weed. They are looking for explosives and such. But you definitely aren’t legal there nor are you in many States. It would be a silly thing to do ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945/20 "2025-11-18T04:36:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Federales will jump on your shit so fast you would think manure is going for $5,000 a lb. I think that @Horatius was referrring to Toronto Airport. In Canada, where weed is perfectly legal at the federal level. Shouting “Any Dopers here?” in Toronto Pearson Airport, might get you a few looks, and attention from any SDMBers within earshot, but the police will ignore you. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-dopefest/1024945.md?page=2)