Daze in the park: 420 cannabis festival returns to UK

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A controversial pro-cannabis festival will return to the UK as part of a worldwide series of events campaigning for the legalization of marijuana.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend the ‘420’ event in London’s Hyde Park this weekend. A similar event will be held at Manchester's Platt Fields Park.

Now held annually, around 10,000 people attended the London festival last year, where participants openly smoked cannabis, according to the event’s organizers.

The two-day event’s Facebook page reads: “Get all your friends to come along – lets show the Gov that we WANT LEGAL CANNABIS [sic].”

The term '420' has become universally known as the code word for cannabis. A group of weed-smoking students coined the term while searching for an abandoned crop of marijuana in California in 1971.

More than 60 cannabis social clubs are coming together for the event to encourage members, friends and the curious to join....

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