Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Hippie Hill 4/20 Draws Thousands of Pot Smokers, Despite Being Officially ‘Canceled’ Several thousand marijuana enthusiasts still showed up for a supposedly “canceled” 4/20 at Hippie Hill, and we’ve got pictures and video of Saturday’s weed-smoking shenanigans at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
SF News Celebrate 4/20 in the Bay Area At These Hippie Hill Event Alternatives From food fests to drag shows, check out these weed-themed things to do in San Francisco and beyond Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment A ‘Magic Mushrooms Church’ Is Providing More 4/20 Porta-Potties and Crowd Control Than the City Is The cancellation of Hippie Hill’s official 4/20 celebration seems unlikely to keep thousands of pot-smoking revelers out of Golden Gate Park, and so a psilocybin-themed church is stepping up to provide porta-potties, a medical tent, and water bottles.
SF News SF Police Vow DUI Patrols Will Be Out in Force for 4/20 The “DUI Saturation Patrols” we normally associate with Saint Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday will be rolling out for this Saturday’s 4/20 observances, as SFPD hopes to discourage people from driving while stoned.
Arts & Entertainment ‘SF Weed Week’ Hopes to Fill Void of Canceled 4/20 Party, With Promotional Marketing Events Would you rather go to branded promotional industry events for 4/20 instead of whatever party might happen at Hippie Hill? If so, boy does SF Weed Week have a marketing-type lineup for you.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 on Hippie Hill Gets Canceled By Organizers, For 2024 At Least The organizers of the official Hippie Hill 4/20 event have canceled this year’s smoke-filled festivities over budget cuts and lack of sponsorship. But considering 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, mobs of stoners are probably going to show up anyway.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 4/20 Blankets Hippie Hill With Pot Smoke, Erykah Badu Exhorts Crowd To Smoke Even More Erykah Badu hit high notes at the most entertaining 4:20 countdown yet at Hippie Hill, as what appeared to be 20,000 happy stoners blazed up a gargantuan cloud of marijuana smoke for a blissed-out 4/20 celebration.
Arts & Entertainment Confirmed: 4/20 Hippie Hill Is On For 2023, With Erykah Badu On Stage The biggest free cannabis event in California gets its biggest star yet, and this year’s 4/20 Hippie Hill celebration will feature four-time Grammy winner Erykah Badu, plus D’wayne Wiggins from Tony! Toni! Toné!, though legal cannabis sales are not yet confirmed.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Hippie Hill Blazes Up in Smoke as Nearly 20,000 Stoners Celebrate First 4/20 With Legal Weed Sales in Park The first-ever 4/20 with dispensaries legally selling pot in Golden Gate Park was the bomb, and Goapele wowed the crowd with a surprise set, though Berner seemingly did not realize it was 4:20 when the clock struck 4:20.
SF News Video Appears to Show Mike Tyson Punching Drunk Guy on Plane Leaving SFO After 4/20 TMZ just released some video from Wednesday night that appears to show Mike Tyson — who was in SF to help promote a social media app at the 4/20 event at Hippie Hill — decking a drunk guy who was harassing him on a JetBlue flight from SFO to Florida.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 4/20 Billboard Promises ‘Get Free NFTs When You Buy Weed’ We have reached Peak 2022 San Francisco, as a fresh, new 4/20 billboard at Mission and Geneva Streets declares “Get Free NFTs when you buy weed.”
Arts & Entertainment A San Francisco 4/20 Event Guide (For People Who Have No Interest In Going to Hippie Hill) A San Francisco 4/20 Preview (For People Who Have No Interest In Going to Hippie Hill) Plenty of SF dispensaries and venues are counterprogramming against the Hippie Hill high jinks with live music, comedy, and even “Wings, Weed & Waffles.”
Arts & Entertainment World Turned Upside-Down: SF Chamber of Commerce to Ring In 4/20 With a Week-Long Weed Festival The 4/20 bacchanalia has officially transformed from outlaw menace to a squeaky-clean tourist attraction, as SF Travel and the Chamber of Commerce have organized a high-end, “multi-day celebration tied to 420.”
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Is Indeed Happening on Hippie Hill for 2022, With Special Guest… Mike Tyson? It will finally be the first 4/20 with legal cannabis sales in Golden Gate Park, after the last two 4/20 celebrations were canceled by COVID-19, with boxer-turned-bud proprietor Mike Tyson scheduled to appear as a special guest.
SF News Huge 4/20 Lines at Some SF Pot Dispensaries, Others Have No Lines At All Long wait times at some large dispensaries, no wait at others, but all shops are breathing a sigh of relief over the Chauvin verdict.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Cancelled Again, As Rec and Parks Vows Hippie Hill Will Be Fenced Off The calling off of this year’s 4/20 was a 4/gone conclusion, but Mayor Breed and Rec and Parks announced today that Hippie Hill will be thoroughly fenced and rangers will be ready to bust any crashers.
SF News Photos: Hippie Hill Is Indeed Gated Off and Locked Up for 4/20 The City made good on its vow to proactively smoke out any attempt at 4/20 gatherings in Robin Williams Meadow, as six-foot chain link fences are bolted together and barricading the area.
Arts & Entertainment Dispensaries and Stoner Celebs Say Stay Away from the Park on 4/20, Offer Livestreams Instead The SFPD vows “the consequences probably won’t be favorable” for would-be Hippie Hill 4/20 crashers, and local cannabis bigwigs are making efforts to keep stoners staying at home.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Draws 15,000 to Make Hippie Hill Go Up in Smoke Hippie Hill lived up to its name like never before Thursday, as the largest-ever iteration of the annual 4/20 bacchanalia in Golden Gate Park pulled an estimated crowd of 15,000 at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Brewery, Castro Bar, And Pot Company Brew 'Toke Back Mountain,' A 4/20 IPA With Marijuana Oil In a uniquely San Francisco collaboration, a SoMa brewery, a Castro bar and restaurant, and a local pot company have joined forces to create a 4/20 beer called "Toke Back Mountain." This
Arts & Entertainment Barbary Coast, SF's Swanky New 'Speakeasy' Pot Lounge, Offering 4/20 Booth Reservations For a taste of California, a puff of any old Humboldt County grass will do. But for a pot-smoking experience with a uniquely San Francisco feel, sneak over to Barbary Coast, a 2013-opened
SF News $20 Scam Tickets Sold To Free 4/20 Event In Golden Gate Park You'd have to be stoned to fall for a scam like this, which is exactly what makes it a good scam. An Eventbrite page has been advertising $20 tickets for the annual **free*
SF News This Year's 4/20 Will Indeed Be City-Permitted For The 1st Time Marijuana clouds are on the horizon: 4/20 approaches in less than a month, and this year, for the first time in San Francisco, the city will be permitting the annual smoke-in at
SF News [Update] London Breed: 'Traffic Will Be A Nightmare' On 4/20, Traffic Diversion On Fell [Update] A previous version of this story noted several street closures, but in fact, there will only be a traffic diversion on Fell Street to northbound Stanyan Street, effectively shutting down Kezar Drive
SF News Will This Year's 4/20 Be Another Potpocalypse? Despite encouragement from their cultural icons to "smoke weed every day," some among San Francisco's pot-crazed population still prize a single day of the year as their a high holiday. The traditional 4/
