{"id":9176,"date":"2020-04-18T01:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/04\/17\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality\/134798\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T01:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:48:21","slug":"cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis 4\/20 celebrations go virtual as industry adjusts to new reality"},"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\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/OCR-L-CANNABIS-0418-01-SRA-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/04\/17\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality\/134798\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Monday \u2014 and, really, all of April 2020 \u2014 was supposed to be big in the world of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1971, when a group of Northern California teens started meeting at 4:20 p.m. each day to smoke weed and hunt for an elusive marijuana patch, the figure 420 has been tied to cannabis. And so the fourth month of 2020, and the date 4\/20\/20 in particular, was poised to give marijuana consumers extra cause to celebrate the industry\u2019s unofficial holiday while offering legal cannabis companies a welcome marketing hook.<\/p>\n<p>But shelter-at-home orders tied to the coronavirus pandemic have pumped the brakes on most 4\/20 celebrations. Even in weed-friendly San Francisco, Mayor London Breed is threatening to arrest anyone who shows up for the state\u2019s largest annual cannabis gathering at \u201cHippie Hill\u201d in Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/04\/17\/cannabis-4-20-celebrations-go-virtual-as-industry-adjusts-to-new-reality\/\">Read the rest of this story on ocregister.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday \u2014 and, really, all of April 2020 \u2014 was supposed to be big in the world of cannabis. Since 1971, when a group of Northern California teens started meeting at 4:20 p.m. each day to smoke weed and hunt for an elusive marijuana patch, the figure 420 has been tied to cannabis. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,56,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227,2636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176"}],"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=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}