Vancouver Should Embrace Its Growing Cannabis Celebration

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Vancouver's annual April 20 cannabis celebration is a peaceful, progressive event that embodies the city's ideals of tolerance and diversity. Vancouver citizens and city hall should embrace 420 and join in the celebration.

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420 is a Vancouver institution

What started with a handful of people at Victory Square Park on April 20, 1995, has organically grown into one of Vancouver's largest and most well-known civic events. Last year, Vancouver's 420 celebration brought in upwards of 40,000 people to the Art Gallery grounds throughout the day, with the peak crowd stopping traffic for several blocks in each direction around the downtown core.

The City of Vancouver could have given the 420 organizers a permit for using the Art Gallery grounds any year, but they chose not to. We asked for a permit a few times early on, but we were always told we could not have a permit

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