420 Rally Denver, Colorado, 2009

A couple thousand people gathered on April 20, 2009, at Civic Center park, at around 4:20 p.m. to commemorate 420. Yours truly attended and gathered some footage and interviews. Especially significant are the local activists' reactions to President Obama's dismissal of the most popular question in a recent online town hall. I also noticed two familiar faces; Denver Police officers videotaping the participants in this year's 420 festivities. Since the organizer of this movement, and my long time friend, Ken Gorman was murdered, these rallies have exploded in popularity and the movement even made its way to the front door of Barack Obama's Invesco speech. The sky is the limit.

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[TheLightminded]

yea but you dont die like they did during the prohibition 

[pazyamor07]

@TheLightminded come again? I'm not sure what you mean.

[pazyamor07]

@TheLightminded Ah yes, Australia, that other former English colony born out of ignorance, racism and genocide against the original inhabitants of the land. Wait ... what did I mean by 'former ... colony'? Australia is still England's little puppet, and what is England to the United States? I think we all know the answer to that question.

[TheLightminded]

@FreshandTolly do you guys go to jail in the us for smoking dope what the hell we dont in austrlia and you dont get free health care stop complaining and move to a better country or get rich i know stop smoking that might help oh please loud mouth americans nfi

[LeeWrens]

Haha 420!! Boulder's inspired me to make an insane new music video "BOULDER BAKED!" Filmed 4/20 in Boulder, Co. It's nuts, and the totally baked crowd of 10,000 @ 4:20 is hilarious!

[nasmitty]

my first rally was this one and after i saw it for the first time my jaw dropped.. needless to say ill be back every 420

[mitchyslick303]

303 all day see ya 2010 hba

[pazyamor07]

Are you a cop? Why do you keep posting comments on my channel defending cops? They were filming people doing something perfectly legal and protected by the federal constitution. That is sinister by definition. Trying to rationalize what the police do without actually knowing is dangerous and ignorant. They are not trainers at an academy anyway, they are DPD on duty. That will not be used for training, and it will most likely be used to I.D. people to harass or spy on. Food for the fusion center

[BenB8290]

Not necessarily. They maybe using it in a training video. If they were being sinister, they would've been so obvious in their efforts to film you guys.