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This article, written by Associate Editor Tim Baker, was excerpted from Newsweek's Special Edition, Weed 2016: The Beginning of the End for Pot Prohibition.
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is one of the most expansive and widely used public spaces in the country, so when on August 15, 2015, a competitive long-distance run was held featuring among its festivities a Lagunitas-sponsored beer garden and a live concert, it was just another Saturday in the park. But this wasn’t any old fun-run: It was an event of the 420 Games, an organization that hopes to illustrate that “cannabis users are not lazy, unmotivated or ‘stoners’ and to de-stigmatize the millions who use cannabis in a healthy and responsible lifestyle.”
As if to drive home the point that using cannabis is far from the athletic impairment most people assume it to be, the athletes gathered in Golden Gate Park looked like just...
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