4/20 @ 4:20

DdC · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject: 4/20 @ 4:20

UC Santa Cruz Cracking Down on 420 By Karina Rusk
CN Source: ABC News April 18, 2009 Santa Cruz, CA

Some new restrictions are being placed on a longtime pot-smoking festival. A large crowd is expected on the UC Santa Cruz campus Monday for a festival known as "the 420." The university is trying to keep out the unwanted pot smokers. The annual migration to Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz is well documented on YouTube. The 420 event takes place every year on April 20th at 4:20 in the afternoon.

But, students say it is one day in which open cannabis smoking is generally regarded as free speech.

"It's an opportunity for the student body to express solidarity for drug reform policy,"

Santa Cruz 420

Celebrate 420!

420 Ken Gorman Tribute Denver Colorado 4.20.7

Don't Go To 4/20 Marijuana Smoke-Out By Lance Vaillancourt
CN Source: Daily Camera April 17, 2009 Boulder, Colo

"I believe it is a peaceful way to demonstrate against what is probably the most laughable and unenforceable law in the United States,"

"While I partly go for the spectacle, I do believe there needs to be some reform in regard to this country's drug policy."

For their part, CU police officials are taking the same stance as last year, when they issued zero tickets -- despite the massive crowd of pot smokers.

"Students bringing objects to the rally that could be construed as potentially injurious -- such as trampolines, slacklines or glass items -- would give officers more of an incentive to become involved.

We may ticket a whole bunch of people; we may ticket no one, We'll just have to wait to see what unfolds in front of us and act accordingly."
Cmdr. Tim McGraw

This year's event -- held at the traditional time of 4:20 p.m. April 20 -- will be preceded by the National Forum on Marijuana, a weekend conference on campus hosted by the CU chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Guest speakers at the event include Jessica Peck Corry, who was behind last year's ballot measure to end affirmative action on Colorado college campuses; Cmdr. Tom Sloan of the Boulder County Drug Task Force; and Steve Bloom, the founding editor of High Times magazine.

Marijuana Forum Set for CU This Weekend April 17, 2009

Home of the Colorado 420 Coalition

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G4TV.com
Once again, G4 is lighting up our annual 420 event! It's time to clear the smoky haze from the room because we've got a huge stash of 420 goodness that's sure to leave you stoked. We kick off the night with a special 420-themed Attack of the Show! followed by the stoner classic Half Baked and, by popular demand, the World Television Premiere of Super High Me.

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...

Wikipedia: Global Million Marijuana March

4/20 @ 4:20 2009

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

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

UCSC4/20@4:20

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

Four Twenty 2009 at UC Santa Cruz

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, 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

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 %

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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.

Big turnout for 420 Smokeout - The Denver Post

Denver Police Realize Lowest Priority for Cannabis Enforcement

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.

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

Home of the Colorado 420 Coalition

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."

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

Thank God for Hippies

420 Revealed -- A Day of Peace

Make 420 an Official Holiday.

------------------420! 2008----------------------------

Mostly Happy

'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

Happy Past 420! meadville.pa
DWRf started Apr 21, 2007

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

Thank God for Hippies

Friday August 15th, Saturday August 16th, and Sunday August 17th

Woodstock Music Festival Of 1969 Tribute

GO TO woodstock 40 anniversary celebration and reunion 2009

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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

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Huge Four Twenty celebration in Porter Meadow indybay

Students Blaze at UC Santa Cruz on Four Twenty, 2008

A Portrait: 420 at UC Santa Cruz 2007

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Nice Rally Smile

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**viper** · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject:

Never mind the bullshit - www.420temple.co.uk/420temple.htm
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**viper** · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:13 pm Post subject:

The entire nonsense thing is a con on the culture of the highest order.

You might be happy to comemorate and celebrate crop thieves but I don't see any difference between a crop theif and a DEA agent. Why do you support upside down and inside out values ? I always thought that marijuana culture was/should be based on truth and justice, not a simple reflection of mainstream Dominator culture.

Go ahead, bang the drum, wear the hat and the T-shirt, buy up all the crap with 420 printed on it, suck up and venerate cheats theives and liars. What will it make you ?

I don't need nor require 'Brand Logo 420' and I don't need anyone to tell me how, what, when, and where to make my own rituals, and neither should you.

I will not have such devicivness imposed upon me or the culture around me. It's part of the problem, not part of the solution.

"Welcome to the real world hippy.", Homer J. Simpson
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**viper** · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject:

So you would just perfer the divide and conqure method of the powers that be? instead just shut up and sit down allowing the government to continue to walk over our constitution. protests/rallies they are part of our freedoms, they allow us to stand up and recognize we are not alone. while true anymore these have gone way to commercial for my liking, it still does not take away from the very simple message of "legalize"[/quote]

"The enemy of man is the means by which he is governed.", p.10, 'The Floodagtes Of Anarchy', S. Christie & A. Meltzer, Shere Books 1972.
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DdC · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: Doc Martin's untied...

**viper** · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: Doc Martin's untied...

"DdC"]If it ain't the bible thumping self appointed moralists.
Its the self anointed anarchists, throwing rocks like Ernest T Bass.
Take that Alcoa aluminum can of DuPont acrylic spray paint,
draw that crooked A on the side of corporate buildings.
So they can hire a corporate cleaner to spray more poisonous chemicals.
Stints probably earning Wall St a few hundred bucks.
To remove your graffiti protesting corporate fascists.
Giving more funds to the local copshops overtime budgets.
While the news lumps it all in one bag, the self anointed run away.

V- My, that's quite a rant.

D- Punks in corporate chemical Goth make-up and cotton black jeans.
Throwing bricks through parked car windshields in the name of Anarchy?

V- Shocking, isn't it ?

Never did like the new fangled 'Goth' fashion. Perhaps it's because I was around to see the first real Goths before the pantomine make up and mass manufactured fashion accessories. Good days.

Throwing bricks, may not be the most endearing way to effect change, but can be awfully satisfying and very good for relieving pent up stress and frustration. Far better, I feel, to break a few windows than murder inoccent men and beat up women like the British police do.

You may wish to check out William Godwin, and his 'Enquiry Into Political Justice'. I think you'll find, old as it is, that there is a good deal of sense in the philosophy. Certainly his son in law and his pals found it very refreshing. Without it the French Revoloution and the American Revoloution may never have happened. You might like to look over Tomas Paine too, and afterwards you may find you have more in common with Anarchism than you could have imagined.

D - Overthrow the G-20 corporatists by buying up their products.

V- Can't see that working very well, but I'll assume your refering to the kind of dumb teenagers who are led by their nose rings and think there's nothing wrong with buying rebellion in pill form at the weekends. There are a lot of stupid people in the world. Each man/woman must take responsibility for themselves.

D- Another glass house dweller throwing stoners whines and insults.
Putting down 420 celebrations as being too commercial?

V- No. Putting it down because it's a con on the culture that fundamentally undermines any values it aledges to have by praising and cannonising crop theives who would under any other cicumstance be vilified. Also the turning of a culture into 'products' aimed at the culture.

D- You're more an antichrist follower, a loud whimpering temper tantrum.
Not an Anarchist. Not even a rebel, just a two bit criminal.

V- Considering we have never met your making some rather leaping assumptions. I've been preaching the same sermon for around thirty years. I am that I am and feel no need to justify myself. Unlike many others I feel no requirement to label myself and thus limit myself by my own definitions.

Why don't you make yourself a nice cup of tea and think about it some more ?

A strong house is not built on dodgey foundations.
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**viper**

D- Its what I do instead of getting drunk and hurling bricks.

V- Shame on you.

D- Just a gathering of people speaking out against the empire. I think you could use some better pot.

V- Forming a cult within a culture and seperating from wider society and the International community dosen't seem like the best way to do it to me.

.......................... and I'm quite content with the first grade Moroccan I have presently thank you.

D- Anarchism is not throwing bricks at innocent peoples cars or houses.

V- I'm so glad you've realised that. Now that's progress !

D- Seriously dude, your not making sense.

V- I do so agree with that statement. Your a bit of a nutter arn't you ?

D- Then stop doing it. As noted the damage you cause tossing bricks only profits the corporations and gives cops bigger bloated budgets with real weighted evidence instead of just reefer madness garbles. The sheople can't govern themselves after 200+ years of flag jerking obedience or 2000+years of Khristzionism. This years crowds send a message no TV has sent in 40 years. Most not spending a dime on 420 bumper stickers.

V- Hmmmm, you apear to be raving. Having fun ?

DdC · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: Only a Troll