Musings of a Compulsive Thinker

Four / Twenty

How did this become an event? It's something over which we roll our eyes, here in the People's Republic of Boulder. Every year at 4:20 p.m. on April 20th, a crowd gathers at Farrand Field on the university campus to light up and enjoy their marijuana.

Supposedly it's a rally in favor of legalizing posession of small amounts of pot. There's a Denver-based group who call themselves "SAFER" (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation) advocating recreational marijuana use instead of alcohol. CU students passed a referendum last year "encouraging" the university administration to reduce marijuana use/posession penalties to the same as those for alcohol. Also last year, Denver voters passed an initiative to make marijuana legal for private adult use.

And they say Colorado's a conservative state. Pfft.

This year the local police put up barricades around Farrand Field and announced it was closed, warning that trespassers would be fined.

I'm doubtful that these measures will have proved to be effective deterrents. This is Boulder, after all.

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posted by the alygator @ 4:22 PM