Last year, University of Colorado officials took a strong stance against large-scale 4/20 celebrations, banning a party that had previously taken place each year at University of Colorado Boulder. Despite the fact that marijuana is now legal in Colorado, university officials are taking the same stance against the party this year.
CU officials say that because Amendment 64 bans outdoor marijuana use, the university will still not allow the party to take place. Officials have also said that the celebration disrupts academics, even though 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year.
University spokesman Bronson Hillard told the press, “4/20 is most certainly an unwelcome gathering on the campus.” The university is expected to reveal their plans for stopping the party later this week.
Measures to prevent the 4/20 party last year included a concert featuring Wyclef Jean, but few students attended. Additionally, campus officials closed the Norlin Quad of the Boulder campus, prohibited visitors to campus on 4/20, placed fishy-smelling fertilizer to deter individuals from spending time outside on campus, and required staff and students to show ID cards to access the campus. Overall, the university spent over $287,000 to prevent the 4/20 party from happening.
This year, however, it seems the university will take a bit of a different approach after student and university leaders expressed displeasure with the use of funds, though they have yet to reveal their plans. Student government executive Britni Hernandez explained, “Our administration’s feeling was that it wasn’t fiscally responsible. We spent a lot of student fee money to fund an event that didn’t have student input or buy-in.”
Amendment 64 campaign sponsor Mason Tvert is encouraging the CU system to reevaluate the message they are sending by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to stop students from smoking marijuana on campus while at the same time sanctioning football tailgates where students are allowed to openly consume large amounts of alcohol.
Tvert told the press, “CU has a handful of football games in which they openly allow people to consume copious amounts of alcohol, and they don’t seem to think there’s any problem with that. Marijuana is less harmful, and I don’t think the event is nearly as big of a problem as they make it out to be.”
While CU Boulder has not expressed their plans for 4/20/2013, assembly chairman Jerry Peterson shared his own stance, stating that the event ruins the university’s reputation. “I think 4/20 is the event by, for, and about losers. There’s no place for it on campus,” he said.
According to their website, Colorado University Boulder aims, “to inspire imagination, creativity, and discovery; become a global force for expanding frontiers of knowledge; exemplify the power of diversity; promote Colorado as a global crossroads of ideas and discovery; and prepare students to realize their full potential.” This seems to be in direct contradiction to the close-mindedness that the CU Boulder officials have shown when it comes to marijuana legalization and consumption.
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K-Budzz said on Mar 11, 2013
hahah funny nothing your going to do is going to stop your school, boulder, from being the biggest stoner college in this country even before legalization. the party will take place elsewhere bitches (like in the dorms lol). but no really thats funny the school is trying to act like they don't agree with colorado legalization, when everysingle person enrolled smokes the ganj….. and pays $30,000-40,000+ individually a year to be enrolled.
K-Budzz said on Mar 11, 2013
^^^^
& they are using that money towards fish to stop them from going outside on a beautiful day of mid april haha
HighNMighty420 said on Mar 11, 2013
Must be a lot of losers in Co according to this guy. Hahah what a joke & interesting read. Why they would want to spend excessive money on this instead of something academic is beyond me.
eternal.luv said on Mar 11, 2013
Jerry Peterson needs to light up his unconscious mind.
I won't even call you a loser,
you are seriously in need of loving compassion.
spkavyo said on Mar 11, 2013
The 4/20 gathering happened for years without any big fuss being made. Last year something changed and the Administration went all Rambo on it. Amendment 64 does say out of sight, but get real. A party is gonna happen, where is the only question.
doee said on Mar 11, 2013
is it really suprising that a SCHOOL is not all for people getting high as shit there? ofcourse it's not, if you find it shocking you are a retard. its a fucking university, you have the whole rest of the state to get high, SCHOOL IS FOR SCHOOL, not to have big weed parties, dumb ass stoners
ace710420 said on Mar 11, 2013
its legal doeeeeeeee lol we pay for school they dont give it to us they can fuck offff
doee said on Mar 12, 2013
yeah but i mean having huge groups of people smoking weed at the university…like come on just go somewhere else
doee said on Mar 12, 2013
and i say this because i bet that the university is only doing this because of federal preasure threatening to cut funding, a university is run by extremely smart people, they would know pot is fine, i just think it would be because of federal preasure now that it is legal, and the feds are crackin down
K-Budzz said on Mar 12, 2013
doe this has been a tradition for YEARS hahah. so riddle me this: its okay for them to have drunken tailgate parties numerous times over the year, but a gathering of smokers that have been doing this, like i said for years, cant continue this TRADITION?? you seem not to know about this at all, its funny they been smoking out there on that campus on 420 for at least 5 fucking years. FEDERAL PRESSURE TO CUT FUNDING???? wtf doe every single person that attends boulder funds the fucking school, funds the school tens of thousands of dollars. so stop being so damn…. hostile… and edumacate yourslef everyone knows this shit has been happening for longer then marijuana was even legalized.
doee said on Mar 12, 2013
yeah i know it has been a tradition, but now that its legal in CO it has changed things, thats the point, the feds are putting preasure on things like universities, they said that they would, its happened to others.. and i don't like the fact you assume iam not educated…and if you didn't know, yes the government funds universities aswell as the people that go there. so it seems you are the one who needs educating.
and i do not agree with the ban, i think its dumb. if you actually knew me you would know im all for peoples freedoms, that includes the universities choice, even though its fucking stupid and makes no sense, they have rights too….
K-Budzz said on Mar 12, 2013
the feds fund everything no shit so they can have control. the student body should have control, as the students and university leaders are about to stop the university from spending the student's money on stupid shit that cost $287,000. sorry i attend a university and i find that disgusting that they buy fishy smelling substances with the student fee money. and im still not understanding the allowance of booze of campus? hmm because it makes them money and they dgaf.most campuses DO NOT allow alcohol on campus, STRICTLY prohibited. you really did sound uneducated coming up here calling us retards and dumbass stoners when we simply have an opinion, not only on the simple fact that "they cant smoke weed on campus on 420 boohoo." $287,000, lets see thats about 7 individuals entire payed tuition for a year. not only smells like fish over there but bullshit too.
doee said on Mar 12, 2013
well if you can't understand why they still allow alcohol im sorry, i think its stupid, but it has been the way for years, its legal, the government loves it. fucking stupid, yes. and if the alcohol is prohibited on most campus's then why are you annoyed that they did that with weed? and this does not really have anything to do with tuition fee's, you arn't paying for the right to smoke pot in public on their property, amendment 64 does not legalize smoking in public view, i think its silly too, but that's the law….change the law before you complain about them enforcing it. Think about the guys running the school, they probably don't give a fuck if people get high or not they just want to get paid and have a job, support their families etc. they are not going to risk that so some college students can get high…..and i apologize for my hostile language in that first comment, i wanted to delete it and re-write yesterday but there was no button to do so. not to mention the UN has said that CO and WA are going against international laws, so not only are the feds on their case, but now the UN is getting involved too… so i think a lot more is happening then we can see. but i agree with you that students should have the freedom to celebrate 420 like they always have. but unfortunately the law does not say you can
HumCoast said on Mar 12, 2013
Hahahah, big weed parties! That was funny