Saturday was April 20th (or 4/20), which is celebrated by those who smoke marijuana as some sort of holiday in case you need another excuse to engage in the practice. (This reportedly originated in 1990 in Oakland, California.) But some people have taken the tradition to new levels, not content with simply staying at home and getting high. In the city of Binghamton, New York, a group of revelers decided to celebrate the state’s move to legalize recreational marijuana use for the fourth year in a row with an event they call “Smoke Weed Outside the Binghamton Police Station.” However, in a shocking turn of events that I’m sure none of them could possibly have seen coming, fourteen of them were promptly arrested. Complaints soon followed.
Fourteen individuals were arrested by the Binghamton Police Department and Broome County Sheriff at the fourth annual “Smoke Weed Outside the…