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The Three Little Numbers Behind Cannabis Culture By Monique LeTourneau
CN Source: Daily Evergreen April 20, 2007 Washington State 
Where 420 came from and how people in the Palouse spending April 20. It’s pronounced “four-twenty.” Not “four-two-zero,” or “four-hundred twenty.” The three-digit number isn’t an area code or password. It represents a holiday that surpasses time zones for marijuana users all over the world.
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How To Spend a Fun, Safe Holiday By Joseph Ruchalski
CN Source: Daily Reveille April 20, 2007 Louisiana  
Friday fell on the 13th last week, a great day for horror movie aficionados with all-day movie marathons and blood-red wine swilling. Today promises to be a more cheerful day in which millions around the world will celebrate by smoking, vaporizing and eating cannabis. Unsurprisingly, civilization does not plunge into irrevocable chaos on a day where so many ignore local, state and international laws, and it cannot go without mention that possession is a crime in all 50 states. If anything, restaurants and convenience stores will see a spike in sales that strengthens our economy, an ultimate act of patriotism in our post 9/11 world.
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C U & Boulder: It's 4/20 By Paula Pant
CN Source: Colorado Daily April 20, 2007 Colorado  
Break out your bongs. The annual marijuana-smoking celebration known as "4/20” is expected to draw a crowd of 1,000 to 3,000 people to CU's Norlin Quadrangle today. "4/20” - a public marijuana-smoking event which takes place at 4:20 p.m. on the 20th day of the fourth month - normally happens on CU's Farrand Field, but will be moved to Norlin Quad this year as Farrand undergoes renovation.
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The New Face of Mary Jane By Owen Praskievicz
CN Source: Diamondback April 20, 2007 Maryland  
Today is the 20th of April. To many, today may just be another day on the calendar, but to some, this is the holiday of holidays. Like the generations of marijuana users before them, today's class of pot users is embracing their affection for that enchanting, ageless Mary Jane, by continuing a long legacy of marijuana love on 4/20.
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Pot Advocates Celebrate 4/20 By Nate Lowry
CN Source: Cornell Daily Sun April 20, 2007 New York  
While it may seem like any other Friday to some, to others, today — 4/20 — is a day that couldn’t have come soon enough. “Yeah, I’m definitely going to roll a fatty and smoke a doobie,” said one Cornell student, gearing up for today — a day on which many Cornell students will smoke cannibis, marijuana, weed, pot, grass, Mary Jane or ganga — however you choose to refer to it.
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Students Don't Fear The Reefer By Addie Curlis
CN Source: Bowling Green April 20, 2007 Ohio  
The time has come - 4:20. For those who smoke marijuana regularly, this is a holiday. Junior political science major Dan Weckesser thinks this is a popular holiday because it's an opportunity for members of a subculture to bond over what goes against the norms of the rest of society.
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The History of 4/20 at CU By Gary Black
CN Source: Campus Press April 20, 2007 Colorado  
Yet another 4/20 is upon us at CU, and the climate seems to be urging students to smoke marijuana on the Norlin Quad. Earlier this week, a sidewalk chalk spread the message, "4:20. 4/20/2007. Norlin Quad. Be there!" Graffiti in one of the bathroom stalls in the Norlin Library reads, "4/20 in the Quad this year. Don't get shut out." And a spray-painted "Defend 420" lurks on the ground for passers-by.
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HMS Prof Promotes Medicinal Pot Use By Michael A. Peters
CN Source: Harvard Crimson April 20, 2007 Massachusetts  
Today is “4/20,” a day celebrated by marijuana smokers across the country—and here at Harvard, Lester Grinspoon is continuing his crusade for the legalization of cannabis in the U.S. Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has advocated for legalization ever since the early 1970s when, he said, the drug helped his son overcome the painful side effects of chemotherapy.
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The Real Dope On '420' By Bob Link
CN Source: Globe-Gazette April 20, 2007 Mason City, Iowa  
Four-20. A time, a day and a message used by drug users. The number is spray-painted on a Highway 18 bridge pillar along Claybanks Drive just southwest of Mason City. The graffiti includes a psychedelic mushroom, marijuana leaf and the words “dank” and “skunk.” Alone, the words and numbers mean little. But ask someone from law enforcement and the spray-painted messages take on a whole new meaning.
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A Musical 420 Celebration of Pot at The Queen Mary By Ryan Ritchie
CN Source: Press-Telegram April 20, 2007 California  
"We'd better have enough Twinkies and Ho Hos backstage," jokes Bredrin Daddys guitarist Brian Murphy. "And some milk to wash it down." Junk food might sound like an unusual backstage request for a band, but not when the group in question is performing in a pro-marijuana concert on the most celebrated day on the stoner calendar, April 20, a date known to pot smokers as four-twenty (or 4/20, 4:20 or 420).
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What Does 4:20 Mean To You? By Leslie Brefeld
CN Source: Aspen Times April 19, 2007 Aspen, CO  
Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML, and Steven Hager, editor of High Times magazine, are willing to give interviews any time of the year. But it’s April 20 that the people want. The date, time and number, all encompassed in 4:20, have become increasingly meaningful over the last few decades to the stoner culture, and the culture at large.
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World Goes Up In Smoke Each April 20 By Greg Gotcher
CN Source: Daily O'Collegian April 19, 2007 Oklahoma  
Tomorrow seems like just another day to the average person, but to a number of people, tomorrow’s date marks a special occasion where all responsibilities and worries go up in smoke. Why is there such a fuss about April 20? Why do all the slackers always seem to hype this date? When April 20 finally comes around they are nowhere to be found. What are they doing?
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420: Time To Take Back The Day By Victoria Carlborg
CN Source: North County Times April 15, 2007 California
Ask anyone who doesn't have an adolescent what "420" means, and they might think you need a new wristwatch. Yes, it's a time of day, but the term "420" also is a common reference for smoking marijuana. The most widely accepted theory of "420's" origination is that in the 1970s, high school-age stoners in Northern California congregated at 4:20 p.m. daily. "420" has evolved into an unofficial marijuana holiday.
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Nation’s Marijuana Laws Were Founded in Bigotry By Roshan Bliss
CN Source: Exponent April 20, 2007 Indiana  
President Jimmy Carter once told Congress that "penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this clearer than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use." That was in 1976. Today, despite the efforts of Carter and many others like him, laws prohibiting marijuana continue to carry penalties and consequences far more damaging than an individual's actual use of marijuana.
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Weeding Out The Facts By Katy Bruck
CN Source: Daily Collegian April 20, 2007 Massachusetts  
Believe it or not, marijuana is a commonly discussed and debated aspect of college life. The plant itself is pretty harmless, especially compared to alcohol, cigarettes or harder drugs, and it could comfort thousands of critically and chronically ill cancer and AIDS patients. Most of the problems with the marijuana decriminalization/legalization debate revolve around rhetoric. It tends to elicit skepticism particularly of the reform coalitions that are based on college campuses.
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Smoked Out: The Great Debate Of Legalization By Andrew Chapin
CN Source: Fairfield Mirror April 19, 2007 Connecticut  
The legalization of marijuana has become a banner picked up by stoners across the country. It's time to put that green flag down because this is no longer about you and your flaring tree. This, my friends, is about liberty. What is liberty? Is it a gross generalization of the freedoms Americans take for granted?
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'420' Enthusiasts Honor Cannabis On High Holiday
Apr 20, 2007 4:20 pm US/Pacific
Marijuana advocacy groups claim millions of people around the world are celebrating 420 Day, a term synonymous with smoking marijuana.

On this day, April 20
Video (CBS 5) April 20, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO



Hundreds Rally in Denver To Support Marijuana Legalization By Deborah Frazier
CN Source: Rocky Mountain NewsColorado  

More than 700 people gathered in Denver's Civic Center Park today as part of the national "4/20" rally to protest laws against marijuana. The Denver event held on April 20, or 4/20, at 4:20 p.m. drew high school and college students and others, mostly in their 20s.

"It's a weed smoking festival," said Joe Smith, 18, who recently moved to Denver from Nevada. "I believe in the medicinal benefits of marijuana."

"Everyone came together to smoke marijuana and chill," said G.K. Hoovers, 20, of Aurora. "It's been cool. There were no problems."

The rally also drew about 100 Denver Police, including the SWAT team, the mounted patrol, undercover members of the vice and narcotics bureau, the gang unit and other departments, said police spokeswoman Virginia Quinones.

"Even though marijuana smoking isn't illegal in Denver, it's still illegal in Colorado," she said.

Officers contacted people who were openly smoking marijuana and checked identification, said Quinones. Those with outstanding warrants for other crimes were arrested and the rest were given citations for possession and public consumption of marijuana. She said the number of arrests and citations wouldn't be available until later tonight.

The crowd, many wearing leis of fabric marijuana leaves, was friendly and light-hearted.

"I came on vacation to Denver for this," said Francine Popovich, 18, of Sedona, Ariz. "All of my friends at home are so jealous. Look how many people showed up. It's shows how many people want marijuana legalized."

Some visitors to Denver wandered into the gathering by mistake, including Jim and Kathy Arthur of Iowa, who walked toward downtown after seeing the Art Museum.

"It's our generation that started all of this," she said.

"We're just beer drinkers," he said. "It certainly adds to our adventure."

Contact: letters@rockymountainnews.com * Website
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4/20 at North Beach By Kate Duffy
CN Source: WCAX News April 20, 2007 Burlington, Vermont

It's April 20th, and pot smokers took time for the annual 4-20 observation.

The day has traditionally seen rallies on college campuses pushing for the legalization of marijuana.

UVM has cracked down on activity on campus in the past few years. So several hundred college students instead packed North Beach this afternoon. Most said they were there to enjoy the gorgeous weather, but when the clock struck 4:20, quite a few lit up a joint.

"We're always on the beach doing exactly the same thing as right now," said Harrison Hagan, a student at UVM. "No one seems to have a problem with it.

Whoever runs the beach never has given us a hard time, we've never been kicked off the beach. As long as we clean up and leave the beach in it's natural form, it shouldn't be a problem."

Police said no one registered complaints about pot use and no arrests were made.


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NORML Affiliates Nationwide To Celebrate 'High Holiday'
April 19, 2007 - Washington, DC, USA

NORML affiliates in more than a dozen states will be holding events this Friday, April 20th, to acknowledge "420" - the official day for cannabis awareness. NORML chapters Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Santa Barbara, Tuscon and other cities across the nation will hold rallies commemorating the day, and will call on their elected officials to stop arresting adults who consume cannabis responsibly.

"April 20th has emerged as the most organic and culturally driven day of cannabis awareness, not just in the United States, but also worldwide," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre. "However, while this is a day of notable celebration, it also is a stark reminder of the absurdity of cannabis prohibition in our free market-oriented, democratic society."

For a complete listing of NORML affiliated "420" events, please contact Erin Dame, NORML Outreach Coordinator, at (202) 483-5500. Additional information is available online at: norml.org or hightimes.com
A special "420" edition of NORML's podcast will air this Friday at: normlaudiostash.com



420 REVEALED
A Day of Peace

4/20 EVENTS CALENDAR

PARTY ON GANJA BEACH
The First Annual Miss HIGH TIMES Pageant In Jamaica



4/20 Draws 3,000 Revelers By Vincent Bradshaw
CN Source: Daily Camera April 21, 2007 Colorado  
The sprinklers were off and the police photographers were absent at this year’s 4/20 marijuana celebration at the University of Colorado, which drew more people than ever. About 3,000 revelers crowded Norlin Quad at 4:20 p.m. Friday for the unofficial gathering. But instead of trying to break up the event with barricades or sprinklers — or get pictures of offenders — as they have in recent years, police showed up at the annual smokeout mostly to monitor it.
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Thousands Take Pot Protest To Heart - and Light Up
By Katie Kerwin-McCrimmon 
CN Source: Rocky Mountain News April 21, 2007 Boulder, CO
University of Colorado officials were kinder and gentler to hundreds of marijuana activists and their supporters who gathered for a pro-pot rally Friday on campus.
No, the cops didn't hand out brownies or other munchies to stoned students this year. But, the handful of officers who stayed on perimeter of Friday's large turnout also didn't undertake a hard-core crackdown, either.
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Pot Smokers, Denver Cops Converge At Civic Center
By Deb Frazier And Daniel Chacon 
CN Source: Rocky Mountain News April 21, 2007 Colorado  
In Denver, droves of pot- smoking teenagers and other revelers converged on Civic Center Park, the site of the annual ritual. At 4:20 p.m., clouds of smoke wafted over hundreds of people, including kids in strollers, crowded into the Greek Amphitheater.
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420 CAMPAIGN
Top Ten Reasons Marijuana Should Be Legal

HIGH TIMES REALITY TV:
THE OFFICE - Part 1
- Part 2 * - Part 3
It's the moment you've been waiting for: The conclusion of the Miss HIGH TIMES contest in Jamaica! Want to see the pageant, the pot, the bikini photo shoot? Here's your backstage pass for the all the irie action. Happy 420 from HT!



Cannabis Cup.com

2005 CANNABIS CUP POSTER (tn above)
Limited edition 18th Annual HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup poster printed on hemp paper
(numbered through 420/420).

Global Marijuana March
2007 city list
Million Marijuana Marches May 5, 2007
Cures Not Wars.org

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"One of the problems that the marijuana-reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in tbe middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows."
-- William F. Buckley

4/20 pot smoke-out draws crowd of 10,000 CU News

No Hazy Goals at CU's Annual Pot Rally By Sara Burnett
Source: Rocky Mountain News CN April 20, 2008 Colorado
It was a warmer-than-average, sunny day in Boulder on Sunday. And around 4:20 p.m. on the University of Colorado campus, the sky grew unusually hazy. Cheers erupted along with a heavy cloud of smoke as an estimated 10,000 people — mostly CU students joined by friends from out of town and some local residents — lit up to celebrate at an annual pot-smoking rally.

Thousands gather at UC Santa Cruz for '4/20'

UCSC Takes Security Measures for 4/20 By J.M. Brown
CN Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel April 18, 2008 Santa Cruz, CA

KCBS - U.C. Santa Cruz Braces for 4/20
UCSC takes security measures for '4/20"
UCSC Campus Locked Down For 4/20?

somebody made a lot of extra keys...

The exact degree of the heat needed to get a big fattie going...
420 degrees Fahrenheit.

Gathering brings more than a thousand to Redwood Park

Thousands celebrate love of Earth, weed By: Meghan Hurley
April 21 Winnipeg Free Press

Pot lovers light up London Free Press - Local News

'420' Events Not Just Grass-Roots By Jason George
CN Source: Chicago Tribune April 19, 2008 Illinois

Lifting The Haze From 'High' Holiday Myths By Alyssa Carroll
CN Source: Daily Campus April 18, 2008 Connecticut

Students Who Get High Suffer Financial Aid Loss By Tom Knox
CN Source: The Lantern April 18, 2008 Ohio

Pro-Dope Holiday Puts Spotlight on Local Attitudes By Evan Sandsmark
CN Source: Colorado Daily April 18, 2008 Colorado

Pot-Smoking Event 'a Moral Slap In The Face' By Tom Ragan
CN Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel April 22, 2008 Santa Cruz, CA
For those who arrest people who use, abuse or sell drugs, Sunday's pot-smoking festival at UC Santa Cruz was "a moral slap in the face to the cause," said Rich Westphal, task force commander with the Santa Cruz County Narcotics Enforcement Team.

For those who arrest people who use deserve a moral slap in the face

Meadville Tribune - Two arrested at marijuana 'smoke-in'

10 Things You Didn't Know About Pot By Mark Jacob
CN Source: Chicago Tribune April 20, 2008 USA
A white Chicago jazz musician named Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow moved to Harlem in 1929, declared himself a “voluntary Negro,” and began selling marijuana. Known as “The Man Who Hipped the World” and “The Link Between the Races,” Mezzrow sold fat joints called mezzrolls. Soon a new piece of Harlem slang emerged: Something genuine was described as “mezz.”

The War on Drugs is Lost by William F.Buckley
NATIONAL REVIEW 12feb96

“Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
-- William F. Buckley
Conservative Scholar, Editor-at-large of The National Review

Cannabis News 4-20-2008

... and then Saturday, May 3rd 2008 the Global Ganja Gathering
and the MMM ... 222 cities have signed up

Wikipedia: Global Million Marijuana March


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4+20 years ago...
-- Crosby Stills Nash & Young

Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie.
-- Eighteenth century English nursery rhyme

Happy 420! DWRf started Apr 21, 2007
YouTube - 4/20 Santa Cruz 2007

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Holiday Hints at Change By Jesse McKinley
CN Source: New York Times April 19, 2009 San Francisco, CA

On Monday, somewhere in New York City, 420 people will gather for High Times magazine’s annual beauty pageant, a secretly located and sold-out event that its sponsor says will “turn the Big Apple into the Baked Apple and help us usher in a new era of marijuana freedom in America.”

They will not be the only ones partaking: April 20 has long been an unofficial day of celebration for marijuana fans, an occasion for campus smoke-outs, concerts and cannabis festivals. Read More...

4/20: National Pot Smokers Day By Anthony Papa
CN Source: Huffington Post April 19, 2009 USA

April 20 is "National Pot Smoking Day." It's a day where people across the world celebrate in the conspicuous consumption of the magical herb, marijuana. It's an unofficial counterculture holiday that is based on the simple concept of smoking some cannabis and being happy.

The history of its origin is somewhat cloudy. I found some interesting theories into the beginning of this toker's holiday. The most convincing account was recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read More...



Past 420 at 420 Festival in Arcata

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420 Day: Medical Marijuana's Big Bash
By Mary Spicuzza and Scott Mayerowitz
CN Source: ABC News April 20, 2009 California
Welcome to April 20. While it might just seem like a normal Monday to you, for many in the cannabis culture, today -- also known as 420 day -- is a holiday to celebrate and consume marijuana. Across the country, legalization advocates, medical marijuana dispensaries and recreational users plan to celebrate. Read More...

The True Story Behind Stoners' Favorite Number By Ryan Grim
CN Source: Huffington Post April 20, 2009 USA
Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring as The Dead. He's just finished a Dead show in Washington, D.C. and gets a pop quiz from the Huffington Post. Where does 420 come from? He pauses and thinks, hands on his side. "I don't know the real origin. I know myths and rumors," he says. "I'm really confused about the first time I heard it. It was like a police code for smoking in progress or something. What's the real story?" Read More...

Marijuana Advocates See 'Tipping Point' By Brian Montopoli
CN Source: CBS News April 20, 2009 CBS
On yesterday's episode of Fox's animated sitcom "Family Guy," one of the main characters - a dog named Brian - is arrested for possession of marijuana. He subsequently goes on a mission to legalize the drug, at one point earnestly arguing that it is only outlawed because William Randolph Hearst wanted to keep hemp production from hurting his paper interests in the 1930s. Yes, the argument was articulated by an animated dog. And yes, the response from one of the other characters was, well, a fart. But still: Last night, a serious argument for marijuana legalization was articulated on a major American cable network during prime time. Read More...

Thousands Fill CU's Norlin Quad with Smoke for 420
By Brittany Anas and Lance Vaillancourt
CN Source: Daily Camera April 20, 2009 Boulder, Colo.
A sudden roar of loud cheering — and quite a bit of coughing — erupted across the University of Colorado's smoke-filled Norlin Quad at exactly 4:20 p.m. today as thousands of students and pot enthusiasts celebrated what's become known as International Cannabis Day. Although CU officials have not yet released an estimate of the crowd's size, observers said it appeared today's 4/20 gathering was larger than last year's, which drew more than 10,000 people. Read More...

420 Celebration at UC Santa Cruz! 4/20/2009

Come on out to Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz

From Salinas to San Francisco and beyond, ya'll are invited to biggest Ganja Party around!!!



Happy 420 Day!

C'mon Get Happy: Twitter with @G420 during G4's 420 Night!

Haze of controversy surrounds 420
An estimated 5 million Americans will go up in smoke today, and we're not referring to cigarettes.

Police arrest 51, 40 for drug-related offenses at rave
Nearly 11,000 partygoers turned up in Redlands Saturday to attend the "420 Festival" at Pharaoh's Theme and Water Park, but many who could not prove they were 18 had to watch from the outside.

Redlands "420 Festival" at Pharaoh's Theme and Water Park

Police plan special DUI enforcement for so-called '420' holiday kansascity



'420 Fest' at Pharaoh's Theme and Water Park draws almost 11,000

Dade police stop truck hauling trees of marijuana on `420 Day'

Portland's 420 Medical Marijuana Benefit

Miami By Way Of Baltimore: was a great 420

buckmarleyxxxhappy-420.html

4/20, 420, 4-20: Anyway you slice it, it's Cannabis day



April 19 2009 420 San Francisco Golden Gate Part

Official April 20 2009 - 420 Anthem Chronic Weed Blunts n' Spliffs

420 Festival 2009

YOJI @ 420 FESTIVAL 2009

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7 Vids: 4/20 celebration at UC Santa Cruz

YouTube video from 4/20 at UCSC, 2009

4/20/09; UCSC

YouTube video from 4/20 at UCSC, 2009



April 20th, 2007 indybay

Yearly 420 Festivities indybay

April 20th, 2008 indybay

Huge Four Twenty celebration in Porter Meadow indybay

April 20th, 2009 indybay

420 at UCSC "Gets Bigger Every Year"
by Bradley indybay Apr 21st, 2009
Staying true to tradition, thousands of people celebrated Four Twenty in and around Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz on April 20th, 2009. Four Twenty (420) is a time of day when people smoke cannabis together. For that reason, April 20th has evolved into a counterculture holiday where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. Porter Meadow at UCSC has traditionally been the largest 420 gathering point around. Despite the restrictions established by the UCSC administration and police to curtail the unorganized convergence, people showed they were determined to celebrate Four Twenty, with friends and strangers, in the Porter Meadow.

Photo's

Students Blaze at UC Santa Cruz on Four Twenty, 2008

A Portrait: 420 at UC Santa Cruz 2007



Video from the 4/20 marijuana celebration at UCSC

Heat twice bakes attendees of annual 4/20 pot fest at UCSC
SANTA CRUZ -- The phrase "getting baked" took on a dual meaning Monday for several thousand marijuana enthusiasts who braved record-breaking heat to smoke up at the annual 4/20 party in Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz.

Poll: Marijuana and 4/20

How do you feel about the 4/20 events at UCSC and across the country?

Love it! 912 Votes, or 52.41 %
Hate it! 522 Votes, or 30 %
I have mixed feelings. 306 Votes, or 17.58 %



Prepartions Underway for Annual 420 Gathering at UC Santa Cruz
Tue Apr 14 2009 (Updated 04/21/09)
Each year on April 20th, at 4:20pm, people celebrate and smoke cannabis together. One of the biggest gathering spots in California, perhaps the biggest, is Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz. It's a large event for the whole community - a place where thousands of people can have a picnic, play with musical instruments, frisbees, kites and just have fun. It's in a safe and relatively secluded location and problems are rare.


Four Twenty ~ Bradley

Drug War News indybay

US Attorney General Says Mar 3 2009
Obama's Promise to End Medical Marijuana Raids is Now Reality

State Limits for Possession and Cultivation of Medical Cannabis Ruled Unconstitutional
California Court Says that Since Voters Didn't Determine Limits, Section of Law Not Legal

Ongoing Medical Marijuana Busts Throughout Mendocino County
Thu Feb 26 2009 Mendocino County Under Medical Marijuana Siege

Students, Boulder Residents Talk Pot
US CO: CU On the eve of the University of Colorado's notorious 4/20 marijuana celebration, hundreds of students and community members converged on the Boulder campus Sunday to talk about -- rather than smoke -- pot.

Blunt Truth By Guy Cimbalo

Americans for Safe Access, an organization advocating legal access to marijuana for medical and therapeutic causes, recently told a federal appeals panel “that the federal government should be stopped from spreading ‘false information’ about marijuana.'” ASA is a noble organization, fighting the good fight, but if they seriously think the government is going to suddenly reverse 40 years of miserably failed policy, what exactly are they smoking?

Murda, He Wrote
REPORTERS, POLITICIANS DISTORT MARIJUANA DISCOURSE
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - April 20th is a special day - a day when strangers will exchange a wink or a nod, casually addressing an issue that is taboo for the other 364 days of the year.

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Home of the Colorado 420 Coalition

Big turnout for 420 Smokeout - The Denver Post

Denver Police Realize Lowest Priority for Cannabis Enforcement

END THIS MARIJUANA CHARADE
On Monday, Winnipeg Police Inspector Dave Thorne stood atop the Legislative Building's steps and gazed out at a throng of hundreds, perhaps thousands of people publicly -- flauntingly -- breaking the law by smoking marijuana, and observed: "Our view is this is a worldwide protest for the proponents of decriminalizing marijuana. From a police point of view, it's more about providing a safe environment for people to express their views. It doesn't mean we promote the breaking of acts or statutes, but we're trying to be realistic."

CN MB: Pot Proponents Come Out In Full Force
Kirbyson, Geoff Winnipeg Free Press 21 Apr 2009

CN BC: National Pot Day Attracts Thousands
Hall, Neal Vancouver Sun 21 Apr 2009

Canada: A Familiar Smell Drifts Across Canada
Pedwell, Terry Globe and Mail 21 Apr 2009


Denver 420.com
4/20 is International Cannabis Day, celebrated by millions of people throughout the world. Every year on 4/20 at 4:20 pm, citizens worldwide gather together to celebrate their favorite plant.