Ending Cannabis Prohibition

420 Denver Colorado 4-20-2007 Ken Gorman Memorial Rally U2b
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
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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,"
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Celebrate 420!
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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.
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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...

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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 √
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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
2007 - 4/20 Santa Cruz 2007

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

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YouTube video from 4/20 at UCSC, 2009

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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.
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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.

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.