Vancouver’s Annual 4/20 Protest Event Scheduled for Sunset Beach, Despite Opposition

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Don’t be surprised if Vancouver’s Sunset Beach looks a little hazy on Wednesday, April 20.

The beach is this year’s setting for the annual 4/20 protest, an event organized by marijuana legalization activists. The protest has been taking place annually for two decades. This year’s event has a new home and is anticipated to attract larger crowds than ever.

In past years, the setting for the protest was downtown’s Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza. However, worries about growing crowds, traffic and tensions with neighbours led the city to request that protestors change their venue.  Despite opposition from Vancouver’s park board, organizers settled on Sunset Beach as their new home, between English Bay and the Burrard Street Bridge.  Continue reading:
Vancouver’s Annual 4/20 Protest Event Scheduled for Sunset Beach, Despite Opposition