{"id":205897,"date":"2026-04-22T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:56:35","slug":"video-marijuana-smokers-celebrate-420-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205897\/","title":{"rendered":"Video. Marijuana smokers celebrate 420 in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York, 420 has become a familiar date in Washington Square Park and Tompkins Square Park, where smokers gather to mark the cannabis holiday with joints, music and a loose street-party mood. <\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>One reveller, Jackie Win, called it &#8216;like New Year&#8217;s basically, but for everyone that smokes&#8217;. Reports from the 2026 gathering said the scene shifted between the two parks as police tightened access in Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n<p>Adult-use cannabis is legal in New York for people 21 and over, under state law passed in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The annual ritual shows how fast the city has normalised public talk around weed, even if the rules on where to smoke still matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In New York, 420 has become a familiar date in Washington Square Park and Tompkins Square Park, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81632,81628,36738,36734,9,11,10,49,51,50,81629,81633,36735,36739,81631,81635,36737,36741,81630,81634,36736,36740],"class_list":["post-205897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-id11810","tag-id13380","tag-id447","tag-id495","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-slugcannabis","tag-slugmarijuana","tag-slugnew-york","tag-slugusa","tag-titlecannabis","tag-titlemarijuana","tag-titlenew-york","tag-titleusa","tag-urlsafevaluecannabis","tag-urlsafevaluemarijuana","tag-urlsafevaluenew-york","tag-urlsafevalueusa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}