The University of Colorado at Boulder spent over a hundred grand this year to prevent a massive annual group pot party on their grounds for the second year in a row. School officials closed campus to anyone who wasn’t a student, saying they wanted to preserve “the academic mission of the institution.” This is almost as bad as the fact that those who go to the Boulder Reservoir this Fourth of July will have to limit their drinking to a specific beer garden. What is HAPPENING to our good nation?!
CU’s 4/20 smoke-out is a time-honored tradition for the college, which is typically ranked as one of the top party schools in the country. You might be thinking, hey, isn’t that stuff legal in Colorado now? Yes. Yes it is. But it’s not legal to smoke in public and it’s only legal for small amounts. A large-scale “smoke-out” featuring 10,000 people on a college campus was apparently too much for the state to handle.