Turning a blind eye

Funny I didn't see a thing about this in the US press (I wonder why?). I had to run across it in a UK release and even then I wondered if this was some form of delayed April Fool's joke. I'm going to guess that half of these crowds were composed of media personnel so they didn't want a lot of cameras around ;-)

High Times For American Marijuana Smokers As Police Allow Thousands Of '4/20' Pot Protesters To Light Up Across The Country

Marijuana smokers across the America lit up in public parks, outside statehouses and in the posh confines of a Hummer parked outside a pot gardening superstore to observe the movement's annual 'high holiday' yesterday. Those who weren't within whiffing distance of a college campus or a reggae concert may not have realised that Tuesday was '4/20', the celebration-cum-mass civil disobedience derived from '420' - insider shorthand for cannabis consumption. Advocates from New Hampshire to California trumpeted marijuana's rising commercial and political acceptance while producing collective clouds of pungent smoke - often under the watchful eyes of law enforcement officers who for the most part let the parties proceed.

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