Isla Vista residents packed into Anisq' Oyo' Park yesterday for the fifth annual Joint Rolling Competition and daylong festival in celebration of all things green and sticky.

The event, hosted by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, capped off a weekend of reveling throughout I.V. and saw several hundred students, vendors and marijuana enthusiasts relaxing in the sunshine to watch the festival's main event - the joint rolling contest. The competition consisted of several categories - fattest, fastest, freestyle and primo categories for both joints and blunts, and a joint-only contest for medical marijuana and one-handed specialists.

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