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| Tony B. Conscious, holds up a scarf with a marijuana leaf design available for sale during the annual 420 pot festival at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. |
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High Turnout For Annual 420 Pot Festival On Golden Gate Park’s Hippie Hill
San Francisco Chronicle
Sat April 20, 2019
Area: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose
Smokers passed cone-shaped joints, cradled glass pipes of all sizes and worked to keep blazing blunts alive amid strong winds on the grassy fields of Golden Gate Park as part of the annual 420 celebration at Hippie Hill.
The San Francisco tradition has been an unofficial celebration of all things weed since the 1970s, but this is the second year since California legalized recreational cannabis use for adults in 2018.
Thousands packed Robin Williams Meadow, many sprawled out on multicolored serapes and quilts, where friends and strangers shared hits from thick blunts and rapped along to ’90s hip-hop blaring from the Wing Stop food truck on the grass.
Smoke clouds dissipated just as quickly as bundled-up participants exhaled amid the heavy, cold winds. A staccato round of coughing fits could be heard in the crowd every now and again. People bobbed their heads and some rose to their feet to dance to the DJ's eclectic mix of music by Tupac Shakur, Santana, E-40, Rick James and YG.
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