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Thomas Trower, a Lawrence icon who asked drivers to ‘honk for hemp,’ has died

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Thomas Trower was well-known in Lawrence for regularly standing at the northeast corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets with a large green and white sign reading 'Honk for Hemp' The sign and Trower’s enthusiasm elicited a familiar cacophony of car horns on weekends in downtown Lawrence for decades. For each honk, he would wave another sign in the shape of a large thumbs-up.

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Thomas Trower, a Lawrence icon who asked drivers to ‘honk for hemp,’ has died

Updated at 11:08 p.m. Tuesday Thomas Trower, popularly known in Lawrence as the “Honk for Hemp” man, has died at age 70, the Journal-World confirmed with the Douglas County Coroner’s Office on Tuesday. The office provided no additional details about Trower, who was well-known in Lawrence for regularly standing at the northeast corner of 11th […]

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LJ World broke the news in on Wednesday, August 18, 2021.
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