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AuntyGravity

(213 posts) Mon Apr 22, 2024, 12:26 AM Apr 22

SF asked people not to gather at Hippie Hill for 420. Thousands came anyway.

From SFGate:
By Madilynne Medina, April 20, 2024

The cloud of marijuana smoke on Hippie Hill in San Francisco was a bit smaller this year after the longtime city-sanctioned 420 celebration in Golden Gate Park was canceled.

Organizers of the cannabis festival announced in late March that there wouldn’t be an event on April 20, and asked people not to gather – but that didn’t stop thousands of people from celebrating on the hill Saturday.

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, crowds walked from Haight Street into Golden Gate Park, and flocked to the famous spot at the park's eastern end as one of the park-goer's speakers played, “Because I Got High,” by Afroman.

Read the full article and see thousands of really really really really high people in the great photos: https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/thousands-gather-420-despite-sf-s-hippie-hill-19414073.php

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SF asked people not to gather at Hippie Hill for 420. Thousands came anyway. (Original Post) AuntyGravity Apr 22 OP

Everyone knows the best way to get people to do something is saying "don't" RockRaven Apr 22 #1

Time marches on Roy Rolling Apr 22 #2

now it's cigarettes that r taboo. mopinko Apr 22 #3

RockRaven

(15,013 posts)

1. Everyone knows the best way to get people to do something is saying "don't"

Reply to AuntyGravity (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 12:46 AM

Apr 22

And in some locales more than others.

Roy Rolling

(6,941 posts)

2. Time marches on

Reply to AuntyGravity (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 03:27 AM

Apr 22

The cultural accoutrements of smoking weed relied upon it being illegal. Hippies were rebels and those rebels had one thing in common: long hair and weed.

I think you understand the problem now.

We couldn’t count. 😂😂

mopinko

(70,239 posts)

3. now it's cigarettes that r taboo.

Reply to Roy Rolling (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 07:38 AM

Apr 22

i just found a local bar w a little patio for smokers.
u meet the nicest ppl in smoker’s hell.

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