{"id":8754,"date":"2019-04-21T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3431418"},"modified":"2019-04-21T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T21:00:28","slug":"4-20-festival-garners-tens-of-thousands-of-attendees-few-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/4-20-festival-garners-tens-of-thousands-of-attendees-few-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/20 festival garners tens of thousands of attendees, few citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/4-20-festival-garners-tens-of-thousands-of-attendees-few-citations\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-20-festival-garners-tens-of-thousands-of-attendees-few-citations.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/21\/denver-4-20-citations-festival\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-marijuana+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Marijuana%29&amp;utm_content=Google+UK#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"3431418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s annual 4\/20 festival this year seemed to have the perfect conditions: warm weather and the holiday fell on a Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/20\/420-in-denver-flyhi-festival-civic-center-park\/\">2019 FlyHi 4:20 festival at Denver\u2019s Civic Center<\/a> wasn\u2019t quite as eventful as the 2017 event where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/04\/20\/shots-fired-denver-420-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brief gunfire incident<\/a> took place near the festival in downtown Denver. But police still made some arrests and issued citations.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers expected as many as 75,000 people at the event, touted as the largest free 4\/20 event in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Officers issued 33 citations and made seven arrests at the event, according to Denver police.<\/p>\n<p>The citations were mainly for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/19\/420-denver-smoking-marijuana-public\/\">public consumption of marijuana<\/a>, though some were also issued for obstruction of city streets and drug paraphernalia, according to spokeswoman Marika Putnam.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were mainly for warrants, Putnam said.<\/p>\n<p>No major disturbances appear to have occurred at this year\u2019s event and officers stuck to a similar plan for other events at the Civic Center, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Denver police posted a guide on 4\/20 for those celebrating, \u201ca guide to retail marijuana in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey, it&#8217;s almost 4:20 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/420Day?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#420Day<\/a> and we know its about be lit for those celebrating. If you&#8217;re one of them, here&#8217;s some quick info for you to ensure you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ConsumeResponisbly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ConsumeResponisbly<\/a> aaaand legally. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KnowTheLaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KnowTheLaw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Denver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Denver<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hoNJCUNVgk\">pic.twitter.com\/hoNJCUNVgk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DenverPolice\/status\/1119724967950790656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing we need everyone to remember is even though it is legal in Colorado, there are parameters set up for each jurisdiction,\u201d Putnam said.<\/p>\n<p>In Denver: No consumption on public property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Denver&#8217;s annual 4\/20 festival this year seemed to have the perfect conditions: warm weather and the holiday fell on a Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7636,7089,6811,6812,376,7427,2559,6471,6813,77,7816,6815,5667,9,5019,6228,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[7639,7090,6816,6817,2954,7429,2560,6479,6818,2655,7818,6820,5673,5022,6235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}