Grateful Dead: only three marijuana arrests at Chicago farewell shows

Combination of relaxed possession laws and gun violence elsewhere led police away from band’s Soldier Field gigsAre Grateful Dead fans unmellowing in their old age? The veteran jam band’s three farewell shows at Soldier Field in Chicago this weekend attracted 210,000 fans, yet only three of them were charged with possession of marijuana, despite what the Chicago Sun-Times described as “a pungent fog of marijuana smoke” in the stadium.It turns out, though, that’s not the result of Dead