Pubdate: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
Source: Hour Magazine (CN QU)
Copyright: 2006, Communications Voir Inc.
Contact:  http://www.hour.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/971
Author: Steve Lalla
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?420 (Cannabis - Popular)

WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN

A repressed population of subversive criminals celebrates behind  
drawn curtains and closed doors today, solemnly sparking spliffs or  
ripping bong hits to commemorate 420, International Pot Smoking Day.  
But April 20 is much more than a day to call in sick and buy a  
quarter-ounce of weed - it's also a record-breaking day for marijuana  
(and, later in the night, pizza) delivery services. April 20 is a day  
to blearily celebrate unproductivity, paranoia, gluttony and low  
sperm counts, a day when new standards of uselessness are established  
for later generations who will probably have way better pot to smoke.

April 20 is also the b-day of Johnny Thrice, onetime raver message  
board freak and exclusive Canadian distributor for Ecler's excellent  
mixers and audio equipment (www.soundwerksaudio.com). And it's also  
the b-day of Mark "The Terminator" Belson, certified luthier and  
brain behind Montreal-based hard techno label Adverse Recordings,  
which has managed to stay well under radar range releasing  
underground tek bombs from The Anxious, Dean Rodell and Carlos Rios.  
April 20 is also, of course, the birth date of Adolf Hitler, surmised  
by leading theorists to have been brainwashed and aided by the  
illuminati at the British Military Psych-Ops War School in 1912 as a  
key component of their plan to create a New World Order (Greg  
Hallett, Hitler Was a British Agent). The Nazi empire and the ensuing  
world war created a rift within the European economy and allowed  
Washington D.C., seen as the symbolic headquarters of the Luciferian  
cause, to assert itself as the international military and economic  
leader.

Incidentally, 420 is not a police code or penal code indicator for  
marijuana offences in any country or state, nor is it the number of  
chemical compounds in THC, nor is 4:20 the Bible verse where it's  
decreed that smoking reefer is cool with God. However, 4:20 p.m. was  
the time that Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann, as recorded in his lab  
notes, first deliberately dosed himself with LSD on April 19, 1943.  
April 19 also marked the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and  
of the Branch Davidian hecatomb at Waco. Hofmann celebrated his 100th  
birthday in January of this year.

April 20 is also the date on which 13 students lost their lives in  
the infamous Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, likely due  
to the perpetrators' fascination with Hitler more than any sort of  
weed-related inspiration. Always a hotbed of 4/20 activity, Colorado  
marked the day in 1914 with a government authorized, Rockefeller- 
funded assault on a colony striking against the Colorado Fuel & Iron  
Corporation. Initially attacking with gunfire, the militia finally  
torched the entire makeshift tent village, slaughtering 66 people,  
including women and at least 11 children. No militiamen were charged  
with a crime. Last year the University of Colorado's police force  
made its first attempt to break up the school's renowned April 20  
smoke-in on Farrand Field. While over 2,000 got blazed, the police  
retreated in defeat. Let's see what happens this year.

Humans celebrate 4/20 day in various ways: Saphir's Mix Thursday  
assembles Techno.fm DJs Kilobyte, Bind, Doc Funk and B-Rock for an  
evening commemorating the growing popularity of the Montreal-based  
Internet radio station. Streaming local and international DJs live  
and via podcast 24 hours a day, Techno.fm also counts among its  
residents Jester Recording's psy-tech DJ Clown (author of last week's  
colossal rave Rewire 2), Ottawa-based hard acid selector S-4 of the  
Lou Cypher Project, Boston-based underground icon Craig Mitchell,  
Burlington d'n'b DJ Sekhmet and many more (www.techno.fm).

Le Kopshop kick off their new night upstairs at Saphir with special  
guest Cosmo Baker joining residents Masterbeater and Atach Tatuq's  
Naes. The eclectic Baker, best known recently for his Brooklyn-based  
party-cum-DJ-collective The Rub, is a local legend in his hometown of  
Philadelphia, learning the ropes under King Britt and eventually  
having his storytelling, quasi-mashup DJ style cited as a key  
influence of current Philly upstarts Diplo and Low Budget ($7 before  
midnight).

Dav and Simon B's Bump! is now a Thursday weekly at the intimate  
Kunta Lounge. Local soulful vocal house producer JLove is their 420  
guest.

Track of the Day You know that Dylan track where he says "everybody  
must get stoned"? Well, it's actually called Rainy Day Women #12 &  
35. Multiply 12 by 35 and you get 420.
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