Celebrating 4/20 with London's Weed Fanatics

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All across the world, governments are rethinking their attitudes towards the criminalisation of cannabis. Yet in Britain, fusty politicians terrified by that video of Jon Snow losing his mind on super-skunk are refusing to free the weed, uncurb the herb or liberate the oregano dream pipe.

We went along to Hyde Park to join London’s most ardent weed advocates for the annual 4/20 celebrations, which this year doubled as a protest rally for those who want cannabis to be legalised.

We caught up with Big Narstie, watched the police make an array of arrests, talked to some of the activist-stoners and found out why you should always smoke through an Eric Cartman bong.

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50 Comments

  1. @MegaSkengman on May 29, 2024 at 4:11 pm

    They should have got a group of people.. 10 of them and differemt age ranges amd showed the affect it has om the human brain.



  2. @daviddavids5088 on May 29, 2024 at 4:12 pm

    Smoking lots of Low grade weed in Hyde park if it was legal the real weed Will come Black market is
    A Drug dealers play ground ยฃ20 gram for Garbage weed all over the UK



  3. @sudeepsudeep7892 on May 29, 2024 at 4:13 pm

    That’s life โค



  4. @roberthuth7493 on May 29, 2024 at 4:13 pm

    Legalise



  5. @Alihassan-nj8ri on May 29, 2024 at 4:14 pm

    Pablo has done his work ๐Ÿ˜‚



  6. @dannylance5212 on May 29, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    Smoke weed everyday!!



  7. @manwhore7019 on May 29, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    england is a narco dump with stupid junkiez



  8. @qzep4323 on May 29, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    5:00

    W LAW BREAKING REPORTER FR FR

    YUUUUUUP
    YODIE GANG!



  9. @squke on May 29, 2024 at 4:16 pm

    3:04 โ€œmedical terms and conditionsโ€๐Ÿ˜‚



  10. @user-nc2wi1dk2v on May 29, 2024 at 4:18 pm

    LOONEY ALCOHOLIC SHORT HAIR DELUSIONS TO ALL FROM A TYPE NUMB A A HATE CRIME AGAINST YOUR LIFE



  11. @hoperforce1 on May 29, 2024 at 4:21 pm

    happy 4/20



  12. @salvia1264 on May 29, 2024 at 4:21 pm

    In fact, all the governments should help the scientists to find better weed with lesser side effects, rather than repressing weed. It is stupid. All these governments should make an effort that better weed are available which give you more euphoria, more joy, and no side effects. Now science is capable of doing it. Science could have figured it out very easily…. LSD can be more purified, and then it should be made available without prescription, through medical stores, through hospitals. In fact, every hospital should have a room. Anybody who wants a weed experience under medical care, he should be given it, because it is worth having. Our meditations are nothing but weed — perfect weed, without any chemicals in them. A man who can meditate will not be able to enjoy the weed, any weed, because his meditation gives him so much peace, and the weed will disturb it. Weed never give you anything. If you are too disturbed, then weed relaxes you. But if you are at the peak of your bilss, weed will relax you downwards. So people who live in the valleys need weed. People who live on the peaks don’t need them. Sending young people to imprisonment does not help. You simply destroy those young people, you destroy their education. And I have not seen that a single person who has been imprisoned, has been changed. He comes out and again… back to the weed. Now he comes out more professional than he had gone into the prison… because there are experts already inside the prison who know more about weed. He was just an amateur. From all those people he gets all the ideas of other weed. Courts are involved, jails are involved, young people are destroyed. It is the duty of every government to provide people with some kind of relaxation, some kind of peace, some kind of silence. If you cannot provide meditation, at least you can provide medicine. To me, weed should be medicine. And if we want, we can change all bad effects. It can become a healthy thing. Each Sunday morning, rather than going to the church, you just go on a trip!



  13. @neon_nexion6840 on May 29, 2024 at 4:21 pm

    This cheese? **looks into the camera* that’s definitely haze ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ



  14. @pirate3599 on May 29, 2024 at 4:22 pm

    Awesome 4:20



  15. @coolxify on May 29, 2024 at 4:22 pm

    โคโคโค๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚



  16. @aaronlewis2501 on May 29, 2024 at 4:23 pm

    4/20 isnโ€™t a day in the UK. I thought they didnโ€™t write their date like that.. ๐Ÿง



  17. @M4D4F4K4. on May 29, 2024 at 4:23 pm

    Yeah this is how UK has grown up as a big player in the world of the cannabis industry. Already had movement 10yrs ago. Look at UKtrees community now. It’s huge.



  18. @GGGGGG-ew5he on May 29, 2024 at 4:24 pm

    The whole park smells disgusting



  19. @shahkazemian3320 on May 29, 2024 at 4:25 pm

    Lots of feature losers ๐Ÿ˜‰



  20. @gibbos1985 on May 29, 2024 at 4:29 pm

    8 years on and still nothing has been done!!! The political system in England see it right to teach your kids that they can choose their gender, but it’s not your right to choose if you want to smoke a herb which is less harmful than tobacco!!! Warped!!!



  21. @zvotaisvfi8678 on May 29, 2024 at 4:31 pm

    wow I love how british people talk its like music



  22. @jedeyemastar5648 on May 29, 2024 at 4:32 pm

    Man english people are ugly asf "get me innit bruv"



  23. @Anixthecold. on May 29, 2024 at 4:32 pm

    Even outdoor is cloudy



  24. @joshws02 on May 29, 2024 at 4:33 pm

    Just hasn’t tho has it haha



  25. @manchester1972 on May 29, 2024 at 4:34 pm

    Why when we fight the legalities of cannabis is it mostly just hippy types or black hoods.. Come on guys.. Legal in the UK won’t happen.



  26. @kstreet7438 on May 29, 2024 at 4:34 pm

    First guy was in Joe’s video lol.



  27. @socomxx on May 29, 2024 at 4:36 pm

    I only move to weed legal states hah, the guy saying weed could make you lazy, sure for some people for not for others. I’m the head engineer of a fortune 500 company and I smoke at least an 8th every day. UK usually follows the trends of America/Canada just a few years behind so I would not be surprised if they make it legal there as well.



  28. @saulsaul2039 on May 29, 2024 at 4:36 pm

    Bongs aren’t smoother the joins idiot bong is literally a pipe



  29. @animeOfDarkness405 on May 29, 2024 at 4:38 pm

    I want weed and drugs to be stopped



  30. @miriblades8264 on May 29, 2024 at 4:39 pm

    Happy fuckin 420



  31. @Spiderdan-59 on May 29, 2024 at 4:39 pm

    I’ve got a mate who’s a cop and he said if he finds weed on someone he just ignores it now it isn’t worth the work involved in bringing the charges for it ! True story!



  32. @Spiderdan-59 on May 29, 2024 at 4:39 pm

    BIG SHOUT ALL YOU UK STONERS,๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง LOVE YOU ALL FROM SOUTH LONDON ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง 420 LARGE !(8 years later)



  33. @kwartelhendrickson6960 on May 29, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    Well ,weird and late reply uhh I agree marijuana should be legeal that said oregon (ore-gun) not gone has legalized basically everything although I am for everything the problem is when you have 49 other states who disagree understand able they all continue to send their worst because your state spoke up first๐ŸŽ‰ lesson learned . Now this place Iโ€™ve lived my whole life is honestly full of drug addicts and dickheads.



  34. @AHGK60 on May 29, 2024 at 4:41 pm

    Even a few old chaps about. Not just young peeps ๐Ÿ˜ฎ



  35. @madfutking4366 on May 29, 2024 at 4:44 pm

    That’s good we do need a protest on marijuana. If everyone wants weed legal around the world just smoke weed annoy police it’s just a plant. Everyone will be happy if that turns legal it’s safer and better than alcohol. Honestly UK needs to change alot more. Trust tobacco we pay for taxes included why not do the same on marijuana. Think how the government earn from that just releasing marijuana.



  36. @Cookie-qo4qh on May 29, 2024 at 4:45 pm

    what is this



  37. @ballyp81 on May 29, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    0:08



  38. @strega_babeharestreets2339 on May 29, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    Divide conquer in anyway & everyway- weed is weed medical or not-



  39. @user-rk4ti3qx8y on May 29, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    Yo somebody else that guy where he got the Eric Cartman bong I need it



  40. @daveking5807 on May 29, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    ADX8๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜Ž them cops have guns these dayz?



  41. @saintjayme on May 29, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    From what I am hearing crime at these events is very low. Yet people call it a drug. But every weekend parties are thrown and alcohol is served and cops are called yet people cheer it on at work, at restaurants, at parks, at birthdays, at weddings the list goes on. Can we treat cannabis and encourage people to use it just like we do alcohol? I would love to go out to eat and smoke a joint in a cannabis bar without people calling me a drug addict or laws saying I cannot.



  42. @cakepudding3220 on May 29, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    4:39 Frank Spencer๐Ÿ˜‚



  43. @arxyt on May 29, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    What is the hosts name in this video?



  44. @Loregasmo on May 29, 2024 at 5:01 pm

    Remember: Everyone in this video mixes their bud with tobacco like a fuckinโ€™ moron



  45. @brianlehman1244 on May 29, 2024 at 5:02 pm

    King Pj legalized everything on earth true freedom



  46. @itzzchrizz2544 on May 29, 2024 at 5:04 pm

    Happy 420 ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰



  47. @Unwanted_truth_ on May 29, 2024 at 5:06 pm

    Don’t let those scrotes represent the cannabis community, they’re the low lives

    We need to focus on positive users who fit it into a normal life and are respectable people who can hold a conversation on complicated subjects because they’re engaged in more activities than just doing drugs

    At the very least, don’t focus on the smokers, they’re using it in the worst way possible



  48. @ichosethishandle on May 29, 2024 at 5:06 pm

    Stupid degens



  49. @ryanmcgrath339 on May 29, 2024 at 5:08 pm

    Plz get a better interviews next time plz



  50. @nazbolsweden on May 29, 2024 at 5:09 pm

    they picked hitler’s birthday to celebrate weed!