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.
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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Shots Fired In Haight During 4/20 Event Police were investigating near Haight and Cole whether shots were fired Thursday afternoon; the suspect in the Pleasanton Home Depot shooting was allegedly trying to steal a toolbox; and the president of the Oakland A's is trying to explain the team's move to Vegas.
Arts & Entertainment How 4:20 Came to Mean 'Smoke Weed' and Inspire SF's 4/20 Celebration It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 20,000 Stoners Expected to Crowd Hippie Hill For 4/20 20,000 people are expected to descend on Hippie Hill for 4/20; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe says he fears for his safety amid a police scandal; and this morning's SpaceX Starship launch was a failure, but not an abject failure.
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.
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 In SF Will Not Be Tolerated, Scofflaw Stoners Will Be Cited "We will not tolerate anyone coming to San Francisco for 420 this year," said Mayor London Breed in a virtual press conference Monday.
SF News Story About Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana At Last Year's 420 A Hoax An apparently false story about there being multiple cases of people "passing out" at 2018's 420 celebration on Hippie Hill due to fentanyl-laced pot was disseminated by both the SFPD and Supervisor Vallie Brown, but why?
SF News 4/20 Blankets Golden Gate Park With The Smoke Of 19,000 Stoners, Park Shockingly Clean On Sunday Watch clouds of marijuana smoke engulf Hippie Hill, with scenes from Saturday’s 4/20 party and its Sunday morning aftermath.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco and Santa Cruz Prep For Clouds Of 4/20 Smoke UC Santa Cruz's annual "smoke out" still isn't sanctioned by the school, the state is now investigating the new Muni train troubles, and Fremont Street will be closed at night to remove Transbay Terminal shoring.
SF News This Year's 4/20 Festivities To Allow 18-Year-Olds, Feature Better Clean-Up 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, and organizers are expecting a larger than usual turnout for the celebration of all things weed. That will come with added fencing, better security, and a beefed-up cleanup crew being paid for by local dispensaries.
Arts & Entertainment Cannabis Wedding Expo Rings Stoners' Bells With the passage of legal recreational marijuana use in California, the full marijuanization of each aspect of our lives and culture walks further down the aisle each day. Couples who are engaged in
