Sounds like someone with some teeth threatened to cut off some type of funding, grants, research, etc.
UC Boulder Crackdown on 4/20 Smokeout
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lol this is the funniest thing ever.here is what needs to happen. just move it. they are going to spend millions on securing the university. everyone involved needs to just pick a new spot and go hog wild. like the steps of the state capitol like someone above mentioned. all the pigs will be at the school.
it would be the most stupendous victory if not even one arrest,ticket,confrentation happened at the school and a 10 bigger event happened at the capitol. epic i tell you epic.
- CU-Boulder students are invited to attend the Wyclef Jean concert at the Coors Events Center. Students attending the concert must be inside by 4 p.m. Doors will be shut at that time. Attendees are free to leave whenever they would like, however, there are no return privileges.
that line is the best. they bribe you with a fucking douche sellout wyclef jean at the arena named after a fucking beer company. lol the irony is too much to handle. notice no going to the plot for a toke.
shits about to get wet and messy.
it would be the most stupendous victory if not even one arrest,ticket,confrentation happened at the school and a 10 bigger event happened at the capitol. epic i tell you epic.
- CU-Boulder students are invited to attend the Wyclef Jean concert at the Coors Events Center. Students attending the concert must be inside by 4 p.m. Doors will be shut at that time. Attendees are free to leave whenever they would like, however, there are no return privileges.
that line is the best. they bribe you with a fucking douche sellout wyclef jean at the arena named after a fucking beer company. lol the irony is too much to handle. notice no going to the plot for a toke.
shits about to get wet and messy.
IncredibowlBoss
Member
The day after the article about the 4/20 ban ran, the cover of the local paper said CU Seeks $27 Million for New Building
nice catch
follow the money
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YosemiteSam
Fair enough. What will really be interesting is to watch where the money to fight legalizing comes from...CO democrats are making it part of their platform to legalize small amounts for adults. Gotta give em credit...that is a bold statement.
Surely a lot will come from the Mormon church...but someone is behind them. It would be cool to know who is using a non profit for political purposes.
Surely a lot will come from the Mormon church...but someone is behind them. It would be cool to know who is using a non profit for political purposes.
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BrnCow
Everyone go to Red Rocks instead..lol
ExtremusMaximus
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WTF?! How can the campus curtail the legally-sanctioned medical marijuana? How exactly would they be planning on prosecuting anyone who is compliant with Colorado law? Does anyone else see the holes in this latest attempt to bypass the will of the people? I want to fly out there just so I can light up in front of this dickless moron so I can take him to court for false imprisonment, etc.; holding up my Maine MMJ certificate under his nose and quoting reciprocity rules between states. We should overwhelm this asshole.
ExtremusMaximus
New member
I believe the pigs need probable cause to enter private property - "just say no" would be a beautiful thing to see when used against the establishment to maintain or rights to privacy and medicine. Bring your video cameras and make the pigs paranoid. They'll try and say its illegal to film cops "doing their duty", but they are making it up as they go along. Make sure the heads that are smoking & filming the events are covered by cameras, too.
Y'all bring the herb and ill bring the Hemp necklaces and deodorant. Ok fine, some Visors and DMB shirts too.
i think going to another site would be a mistake...it would basically show the country that we can be threatened and bullied into submission, because after all, getting smokers to protest somewhere else is their ultimate goal right>?
i think the news coverage is going to be crazy, people are expecting a confrontation of epic size and there will be reporters there from all over the country...i think the more organized, peaceful, and clean the protesters are the better we will look in that coverage...
i mean it's going to get on every news channel out there, WE have a choice, to decide how we want to be covered! they can either show a bunch of ICP fags getting busted with meth and junk, causing fights and hassling the fuzz, rolling around in fish emulsion fields, or they could be showing cops interrogating nicely dressed, polite college students, parents seeing their children in these kids, identifying with them as their own, and watching dea agents in full riot gear tossing tear gas into a peaceful protest...the public outcry alone would help the entire movement SO MUCH! however, if we do allow ourselves to be cowarded into not showing up or getting into trouble, bringing harder drugs or portraying pot smokers in a bad light...well that will set us back just as much
it seems to me that there is no way to break even here, we either score a win for team legalization, or we lose more ground that will be hard to win back...
i think the news coverage is going to be crazy, people are expecting a confrontation of epic size and there will be reporters there from all over the country...i think the more organized, peaceful, and clean the protesters are the better we will look in that coverage...
i mean it's going to get on every news channel out there, WE have a choice, to decide how we want to be covered! they can either show a bunch of ICP fags getting busted with meth and junk, causing fights and hassling the fuzz, rolling around in fish emulsion fields, or they could be showing cops interrogating nicely dressed, polite college students, parents seeing their children in these kids, identifying with them as their own, and watching dea agents in full riot gear tossing tear gas into a peaceful protest...the public outcry alone would help the entire movement SO MUCH! however, if we do allow ourselves to be cowarded into not showing up or getting into trouble, bringing harder drugs or portraying pot smokers in a bad light...well that will set us back just as much
it seems to me that there is no way to break even here, we either score a win for team legalization, or we lose more ground that will be hard to win back...
Hear me out bud. This is abou controll. They are saying look we controll this situation and your right they will all be watching. Waiting for 1 ICp fan to put on the news. So we need to give th the opposite. Make the school a ghost town. They will look like total assholes wasting money. And we make a statement that you can guard a block but that's about it. We will adapt and overcome. Beat them at their own game.
Purple Buddha
Member
There are no ICP fags in boulder. The 4/20 event at CU is a peaceful gathering of smokers, always has been.
Not sure what we are all going to do this year. Walk around boulder and smoke i guess...like every weekend.
Not sure what we are all going to do this year. Walk around boulder and smoke i guess...like every weekend.
I was planning on hitting up CU for 4/20 for the first time with several friends who were really looking forward to this event as they were here to work for the season and are about to head out right after. Anybody have any suggestions for something cool to still do instead of having to fool with CU? I remember somebody mentioning the capitol but does anybody have any details? Was just hoping to sit and chill with a bunch of like minded people in a field and get down for 4/20. 
Purple Buddha
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Just chill at the creek off the boulder creek path...will be tons of hot chicks, people smoking, having a good time.
You talking about the path that follows the creek going up the canyon to ned? If so, good call sir.
Slick.E.Boy
Member
If anyone had to get arrested, I am glad it was this guy:
Marijuana Activists Suing CU-Boulder Over 4/20 Campus Closure
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/marijuana-activists-suing_n_1438421.html
Marijuana activists are filing suit against University of Colorado Boulder for the planned campus shut down on Friday, The Denver Post reports. CU-Boulder has made it clear that it does not want the annual marijuana smoke out held on campus any longer, which has drawn nearly 10,000 people to Norlin Quad to light up on 4/20 in recent years.
Denver attorney Rob Corry, no stranger to marijuana-related lawsuits, is representing the activists and is seeking a hearing this afternoon. Corry recently participated in The Huffington Post's Great Marijuana Debate, has defended more medical marijuana criminal cases than any other attorney in Colorado and is the only attorney to win multiple acquittals for defendants facing medical marijuana charges.
"To my knowledge, there has never been a case where a public university has blockaded and shut down its entire campus to squelch free speech activity there," Corry told The Huffington Post regarding the campus shut down. "This is a radical overreaching on CU's part. When did marijuana become so offensive at CU-Boulder of all places?"
CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano made this statement about the reasons for employing such extreme measures to end the gathering via the school's website:
The gathering disrupts teaching and research right in the heart of the campus. The size of the crowd has become unmanageable, and limits our faculty, staff and students from getting to class, entering buildings and doing their basic work. It needs to end.
Then later, in a letter written to The Denver Post, DiStefano goes further stating that the marijuana celebration is far from a protest or demonstration and should not be treated as such. "If it is a protest, then every party on every college campus in America is a protest," DiStefano writes.
CU spokesman Bronson Hillard explained the chancellor's invoking of a long-standing CU-Boulder policy to shut down the campus to The Daily Camera. Hillard says that a Boulder campus policy titled "Campus Use of University Facilities" allows the chancellor to restrict access because of weather, safety concerns or "disruption," which DiStefano says the 4/20 event is in his statement.
Corry emphatically disagrees with DiStefano and Hillard, saying to The Huffington Post:
There is no evidence that this is a "disruption" to CU's mission. In fact, this peaceful protest is entirely consistent with CU's mission of education and empowering students and citizens to engage in open discussion and exchange of ideas regarding relevant issues of the day. A police crackdown against ideas will harm CU's reputation far more than any peaceful protest will.
Corry was also critical of DiStefano's dismissive statements that the 420 event is simply a "party." "There is no evidence to support the view that this is a "party," Corry said. "This event involves expressive conduct and free speech and association, which if not safe on a public college campus, is not safe anywhere."
Classes will continue as scheduled on April 20 and the campus will remain open to all CU-Boulder students, faculty and staff, but they will need their BuffOne ID cards to get on, and around, the campus, a press release from CU-Boulder states.
Police will be dispersed around campus and will have checkpoints set up at all major campus entry points. Anyone who is not a student, staff or faculty member will not be permitted on campus and individuals found on campus without a BuffOne ID will be subject to a ticket for trespassing.
Norlin Quad, where the 4/20 smoke out is usually held, will be closed to all people--not just visitors--on April 20, and in order to make it clear that no one is welcome on the Norlin lawn, a fish-based fertilizer will be dispersed over the quad that day, The Denver Post reports.
Chancellor DiStefano has the support of the CU-Boulder student government who is endorsing this move to crackdown on the 4/20 festivities. Student leaders have organized a free April 20 concert on campus by hip hop artist Wyclef Jean at the Coors Event Center as an alternative to the campus smoke out. For more information on the free concert, visit the Program Council's website.
According to KDVR, CU has said that the 4/20 event costs the university more than $50,000 in cleanup and safety. However, the entire Wyclef Jean concert will cost CU approximately $150,000, according to The Daily Camera.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/marijuana-activists-suing_n_1438421.html
Marijuana activists are filing suit against University of Colorado Boulder for the planned campus shut down on Friday, The Denver Post reports. CU-Boulder has made it clear that it does not want the annual marijuana smoke out held on campus any longer, which has drawn nearly 10,000 people to Norlin Quad to light up on 4/20 in recent years.
Denver attorney Rob Corry, no stranger to marijuana-related lawsuits, is representing the activists and is seeking a hearing this afternoon. Corry recently participated in The Huffington Post's Great Marijuana Debate, has defended more medical marijuana criminal cases than any other attorney in Colorado and is the only attorney to win multiple acquittals for defendants facing medical marijuana charges.
"To my knowledge, there has never been a case where a public university has blockaded and shut down its entire campus to squelch free speech activity there," Corry told The Huffington Post regarding the campus shut down. "This is a radical overreaching on CU's part. When did marijuana become so offensive at CU-Boulder of all places?"
CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano made this statement about the reasons for employing such extreme measures to end the gathering via the school's website:
The gathering disrupts teaching and research right in the heart of the campus. The size of the crowd has become unmanageable, and limits our faculty, staff and students from getting to class, entering buildings and doing their basic work. It needs to end.
Then later, in a letter written to The Denver Post, DiStefano goes further stating that the marijuana celebration is far from a protest or demonstration and should not be treated as such. "If it is a protest, then every party on every college campus in America is a protest," DiStefano writes.
CU spokesman Bronson Hillard explained the chancellor's invoking of a long-standing CU-Boulder policy to shut down the campus to The Daily Camera. Hillard says that a Boulder campus policy titled "Campus Use of University Facilities" allows the chancellor to restrict access because of weather, safety concerns or "disruption," which DiStefano says the 4/20 event is in his statement.
Corry emphatically disagrees with DiStefano and Hillard, saying to The Huffington Post:
There is no evidence that this is a "disruption" to CU's mission. In fact, this peaceful protest is entirely consistent with CU's mission of education and empowering students and citizens to engage in open discussion and exchange of ideas regarding relevant issues of the day. A police crackdown against ideas will harm CU's reputation far more than any peaceful protest will.
Corry was also critical of DiStefano's dismissive statements that the 420 event is simply a "party." "There is no evidence to support the view that this is a "party," Corry said. "This event involves expressive conduct and free speech and association, which if not safe on a public college campus, is not safe anywhere."
Classes will continue as scheduled on April 20 and the campus will remain open to all CU-Boulder students, faculty and staff, but they will need their BuffOne ID cards to get on, and around, the campus, a press release from CU-Boulder states.
Police will be dispersed around campus and will have checkpoints set up at all major campus entry points. Anyone who is not a student, staff or faculty member will not be permitted on campus and individuals found on campus without a BuffOne ID will be subject to a ticket for trespassing.
Norlin Quad, where the 4/20 smoke out is usually held, will be closed to all people--not just visitors--on April 20, and in order to make it clear that no one is welcome on the Norlin lawn, a fish-based fertilizer will be dispersed over the quad that day, The Denver Post reports.
Chancellor DiStefano has the support of the CU-Boulder student government who is endorsing this move to crackdown on the 4/20 festivities. Student leaders have organized a free April 20 concert on campus by hip hop artist Wyclef Jean at the Coors Event Center as an alternative to the campus smoke out. For more information on the free concert, visit the Program Council's website.
According to KDVR, CU has said that the 4/20 event costs the university more than $50,000 in cleanup and safety. However, the entire Wyclef Jean concert will cost CU approximately $150,000, according to The Daily Camera.
