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Folks from across the city, throughout the Lower Mainland, and, indeed, from around the world gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery as the space transforms treasure island hotel and casino into Canada's only open-air marijuana farmer's market. Sure, cops are there, but they don't do anything unless treasure island hotel and casino someone gets violent. The Air-Miles High club
Vancouver is no longer alone in North America when it comes to lighting a spliff in public on 4/20. Washington and Colorado have recently legalized small amounts of marijuana for personal use, and so are becoming friendlier towards public 4/20 celebrations. (Several other US states have already decriminalized cannabis to varying degrees; Vermont is poised to become the latest. On a federal level, though, Cannabis remains a Schedule I narcotic, on par with heroin and LSD.)
Denver is hosting the first-ever Cannabis Cup on American soil . Mile high city, indeed. It's no joke: up to 50,000 people are expected to show up in Denver for 4/20 this year. That number includes tourists, tourists treasure island hotel and casino who may otherwise have come up to Vancouver. Decriminalization legislation: Pass it, pass it
Washington's and Colorado's moves to decriminalize marijuana grabbed headlines in the United treasure island hotel and casino States, which still clings to its War-on-Drugs mindset. In reality, though, Seattle and Denver are only moving closer in policy to what we already have in Vancouver: smoking weed is not legal in public, and one can only possess pot with a prescription. However, cops will tend to look the other way.
Despite what some may think, marijuana is not legal in British Columbia. It can only be cultivated or consumed for medical purposes, and only then with a government-issued license treasure island hotel and casino (For more info, see the Controlled treasure island hotel and casino Drugs and Substances Act ). Yet still people blaze up in Vancouver. Funny enough, as American treasure island hotel and casino attitudes toward treasure island hotel and casino weed relax, British Columbia is actually charging more and more people for possession . This costs us over $10 million a year, rather then netting us many times more in tax revenue .
More instances of stoners getting arrested will also serve to chill tourism treasure island hotel and casino for events such as 4/20, and that, in turn, is a citywide opportunity cost in terms of tourist revenue. This is all compounded by the fact that it's now easier for marijuana activists, stoners, and the spliff-curious to just take a domestic flight instead, and not bother with a passport or international airport taxes.
As it stands, Seattle is poised to take Vancouver's crown as the Pacific treasure island hotel and casino Northwest's most marijuana-friendly big city. Those driving north don't have to deal with the border queues... or the customs agents. Their tourism dollars remain south of the border along with their second-hand smoke. What would Snoop do?
I was going to ask Snoop Dogg Lion if he'd approve of a public treasure island hotel and casino 4/20 celebration, but that seemed pointless. With a claimed consumption of 81 blunts per day , I will presume that he does. Snoop also recommends treasure island hotel and casino that you not limit yourself to celebrating 4/20 to just one day per year. However, local law enforcement are highly unlikely to accept a note from Snoop as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Snoop will not be present in Vancouver for 4/20... he'll be in Denver, Colorado, USA. The same country that ordered Canadian police to arrest and extradite marijuana legalization activist and former cannabis seed seller Marc Emery ( as much a political move as a law-enforcement exercise). Canada did as it was told, and now Emery is in an American prison. Just as a thought exercise, what if the US snaps its fingers again? Could it get BC (or Canada as a whole) to revisit its drug policy with an eye toward regulation, and, by extension, taxation?
Time will tell if British Columbia will lose out on tourism over an event that requires so relatively little treasure island hotel and casino organization. Vancouver isn't like Nimbin, NSW , a small town whose relationship to marijuana culture keeps it alive; still, we must acknowledge that Vancouver makes money from people who smoke weed: these visitors book hostels treasure island hotel and casino and hotels, they go out for meals... and they surely eat lots of snack food.
In case you didn't already treasure island hotel and casino know, the term "four-twenty" originated in the late 1970s in San Rafael, California (where "American treasure island hotel and casino Graffiti" was filmed). treasure island hotel and casino At the time, a certain Nate Dogg would have been maybe ten years old. It would be a few years before he'd move to California and make a career in the music industry. Soon thereafter, he would go on to work with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre on "The Next Episode"... treasure island hotel and casino and become globally famous for this phrase:
We gather because we want it decriminilized, not to put on a show for tourists. There being more gatherings treasure island hotel and casino all over Norht America is good news for us who want it decriminilized as it shows the growing number of supporters.
Does Vancouver only worry about tourism dollars? The celebration treasure island hotel and casino will be big no matter what. Vancouverites celebrating 4/20 will be at the art gallery and will still be spending money on nearby food.
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