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April 21, 2009 05:23 AM UTC

"420" Smokes "Tea Party?"

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Post reports:

The sun shone bright over Civic Center Park Friday afternoon at 4:19. By 4:20, a thick fog had settled in.

Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts toked together during the annual 420 counterculture holiday, chanting “freedom” as they let loose a hazy cloud of smoke from their lungs.

The crowd began assembling well before it was time to light up, taking advantage of the warm weather and checking out vendor tents that sold everything from art to T-shirts to bottled water.

Groups of friends gathered in circles on the grass, sharing a joint or tossing a Frisbee. Many of them wore shirts, hats and jewelry decorated with cannibus leaves.

Others stood closer to the Greek Amphitheater stage, taking in live music and speeches from activist groups seeking reformed marijuana laws. The day’s theme was titled “Voice your Choice.”

“This event serves as a community assembly,” said activist Miguel Lopez, who organized the rally. “People have the freedom to come here and have at least one day (to smoke).”

Just one of many “420” rallies held around the nation today, though always a little bigger and rowdier in Denver–thank our lively local legalization crowd, founded by the late pot activist and sometime gubernatorial candidate Ken Gorman. Not a serious candidate, of course, but he was more fun to have over socially than ex-Rep. Doug Bruce–Democrats and Republicans agree on this point.

Back to the subject, just how many people do you suppose celebrated “420” today all over the country (or their van, as the case may be)? More than attended last week’s “Tea Parties?” A poll follows.

Did more people celebrate "420" today than attended "Tea Parties" last week?

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11 thoughts on ““420” Smokes “Tea Party?”

  1. Just sayin’.

    Not that I got to attend; my wife hates the smell of marijuana, and I look like a narc anyway so nobody will ever share with me.

  2. After Iowa’s recent Supreme Court ruling there was a letter in the local paper about Iowa’s long history of “progressive” ideas.  Can’t remember them all, but some had to do with slavery, others with women’s rights.  Now gay rights.

    Reading all that I realized that the good people of Iowa have a history of being truly conservative, i.e., expand freedoms, keep government out of our lives.  

    I think a lot of liberal government “intrusion” comes about because the cons weren’t doing conservative things and thus a reaction.  

  3. How can this be a controlled substance?  For God’s sake, it’s a friggin weed that grows out of the ground.

    I think the government should concentrate more on controlling the thieves that robbed our country blind (the Constitution gives the government the authority to regulate commerce and finance). The Constitution doesn’t say anything about controlling some non toxic weed that grows out of the ground.

  4. does anybody have any potato chips?

    Seriously, whining about the tea parties is dumb. It takes a special interest or a complete idiot to think that higher taxes and historic Federal debt levels are anything other than really, really bad ideas. There will be blowback.  

    1. I’d at least like to raise them up to the level that we had when Reagan was president. I realize that the tax rates at that time make Reagan a flaming socialist to you, but I think they were reasonable.


  5. http://www.denverpost.com/news

    his country has waged an expensive and ineffective “war on drugs,” including marijuana, for decades, and it’s high time (to rather predictably borrow a phrase) that the debate on whether to decriminalize cannabis reached the halls of Congress.

    Interestingly, it’s not just the dope smokers in the park calling for legalized marijuana use. Conservative, progressive and libertarian intellectuals alike have argued that we ought to legalize marijuana. The Post’s editorial board has long called for an end to the war on pot.

    Our opinion meshes, in this instance, with that of the late conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr., who once argued that “the government should treat marijuana more or less the same way it treats alcohol: It should regulate it, control it, tax it, and make it illegal only for children.”

    1. that argued we shouldn’t decriminalize.  Well, kinda.  

      They argued that there shouldn’t be a sentencing reform bill this year that would have moved CO closer to decriminalization.

  6. I suppose it never occurred to Pols that it could actually be the same people from the “Tea Party” at 420?   After all, most of the “reactionary extremists” that organized the Tea parties (e.g., Ron Paul) are long-time supporters of legalization of all controlled substances, and not just of marijuana.

    I can’t think of many major Democrats on record of supporting legalization.  (Unless you count Dennis Kucinich).  Certainly nobody close to the Obama administration.   On the GOP side, you had a sitting governor, Gary Johnson (R-NM) who actively supported legalization of all illegal drugs, and a presidential candidate, Ron Paul, who (unlike Kucinich), who outraised his opponents for much of the campaign.  My prediction is that the GOP, not the Dems, will be the first to include legalization as part of the party platform — they sure need to do SOMETHING, now don’t they?

    By the way, pols, you misspelled “cannabis” in your quotation.  If it was a misspelling in the original article, you need to include a “(sic)” after the error to indicate that.

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