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420 Day

“Weed the people” celebrate 420 in Golden Gate Park on Sunday
By - posted 4/19/2014 No Comment

Let’s file this one under “unofficial.”

There’s no permits issued, it’s not really legal, but usually the city tends to turn a blind eye when thousands turn up on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on April 20th each year for a giant smoke out.  Let’s just pray for no federal bust up.

Will there be a crackdown in 2014?
SFist says that the cops may be less tolerant this year. Read more

How to stay on the good side of the cops? Don’t bring in any glass bottles, coolers, don’t amplify your sound too early and don’t be a dick – just come and be cool and mellow and the cops in the past have generally just formed a perimeter and let people be.

>> Take your trash home – Seriously, don’t be a stoned jerk and leave garbage behind. Join the 420 Clean-up Awareness Facebook group.

420 in the Park
April 20, 2014 | 10:30 am-ish to dusk; peak is 4:20 pm
Hippie Hill, San Francisco
FREE

The unofficial time line of 420 day
An example of the typical rundown from tokeofthetown.com

  • 10:30 am – The “unofficial” vendors usually begin to arrive
  • 1 pm – The crowds start to get a bit thick as does the haze of smoke over the crowd
  • 3 pm – It’s now wall-to-wall stoners
  • 4:20 pm – It’s go time: crowd is at their peak, drum beats get more frenzied and hippie girls twirl faster as 4:20 approaches

Source: tokeofthetown.com