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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 News SFPD Reminds Everyone That Child Protective Services Will Step In If Kids Are Brought To 4/20 Now that 4/20 is a semi-sanctioned affair in Golden Gate Park, complete with gates, fencing, and a city permit, there are some rules that are going to be enforced rules that existed
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 Group Of Men Chase, Beat, Critically Stab Passerby Near Golden Gate Park's Hippie Hill A man was chased, beaten, and stabbed by a group of four to six men as he walked through Golden Gate Park Monday evening, leaving him in critical condition. The Chronicle reports that
SF News Park Station Captain Says SF Needs To Regulate 4/20 Or Shut It Down Even with a plan to manage SF's formally-informal weed-honoring "holiday" of 4/20, the San Francisco Police Department captain whose station takes the brunt of the event's impact is calling for the city
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Whole Lot Of Pot-Smoking On 4/20, In HD This very pretty and mesmerizing video from yesterday at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, during the 4/20 festivities, was shot and edited together by someone who sounds like she was named
Arts & Entertainment The Dude Abides At 4/20 On Hippie Hill, And Of Course Stanley Roberts Was There Too The unofficial, unsanctioned, and gigantically popular 4/20 celebration and occupying at Golden Gate Park’s Hippie Hill held it’s annual iteration Wednesday, drawing an estimated 12,000 hippies, stoners, and the
SF News SFPD's 4/20 Plan Includes Road Closures, Extra Bathrooms, Seller Busts Around 15,000 people are expected to flood Golden Gate Park Wednesday to observe the marijuana-focused "holiday" of April 20th. But while the event is neither permitted nor sanctioned by any San Francisco
SF News Man Shot Near Golden Gate Park Wednesday Night Last night around 6:45 p.m., police responding to calls around Stanyan and Haight Streets arrived on the scene to find an male victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was
SF News Hippie Hill Pot Sting Ends In Buzzkill For SFPD An attempted pot bust on Hippie Hill back in February was snuffed out this week after a jury decided the alleged pot dealer was actually just a chill dude trying to smoke somebody
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Report: Patrolling Hippie Hill With Stanley Roberts "There are no bad people," Stanley Roberts says casually as we navigate between blankets in Golden Gate Park, "just people behaving badly." It's Sunday, April 20th: marijuana's unofficial high holy day and I'm
SF News San Francisco To Crack Down On 4/20 Tomfoolery [Update] Recreational pot smokers, they're the worst. When they're not rambling on about absolutely nothing, they're rambling on about absolutely nothing. (Land the plane, stoners!) Further, they've taken an aggressive turn as of late
SF News Cleaning Up 4/20 Park Mess Costs About The Same As A 2-Pound Joint [Update] Although original estimates for cleaning up the two tons of Funyuns bags and It's-It wrappers left in the wake of Gate Gate Park 4/20 celebrations was initially pegged at 10 grand, the
