Whatever this event may be, it certainly is not a Massive Demonstration of Civil Disobedience as many proponents falsely claim. If that were truly the goal, participants would be clamoring for law enforcement officers to ticket or arrest them, in order to flood the court system with hundreds of these petty cases.
Ain’t none of these stoners wants to stand up for his/her beliefs, if it means being inconvenienced in a legal sense. Rather, the 4/20 Stoopidfest is all about getting stoned in a giant party setting.
See the classic written discourse on civil disobedience here –
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
Events like this only harm and delay the chances of decriminalizing marijuana for recreational use, which could also be a great new source of tax revenue for government at all levels. Unfortunately, stoners lack the cognitive skills to recognize this.
Wrong again Max…
Stick it to the man! I used to love watching the cops show just how impotent they really are when confronted by the will of the people. Let the kids smoke their weed. It's safer than alcohol. Although my weed smoking days are over, I don't begrudge anyone who wishes to partake. Marijuana is essentially legal (according to state not federal law), but let's call it the way it really is: Medical marijuana is a sham. Marijuana is not medicine (except perhaps for 1% of the population). People smoke marijuana to get high. Any "doctor" who prescribes marijuana is a quack and marijuana can be addictive. Anyone who says otherwise really doesn't know what they are talking about or they are lying. The smoking of marijuana should be legal, but my concern is: Do you really want your surgeon, pilot or military smoking it?
But, The Man is sticking it to you — and the 4/20 Stoopidfest is the sharp stick he's using to poke in your eye.
Those opposed to decriminalizing marijuana across the board have only to point at this event, and others like it, in order to maintain support among the general public for outdated laws.