Mark Megahan
The long awaited return of the 420 Hippie Hill marijuana festival has been officially announced. It was canceled for the past two years because of COVID-19. You can expect “an amazing lineup of music and comedy,” organizers say. For the very first time, “cannabis and cannabis-based products – including local equity products – will be available for sale.”
Return to Hippie Hill
This year’s official marijuana appreciation day, April 20, 2022, is expected to be extra special in San Francisco.
Thousands are likely to swarm up Hippie Hill into Robin Williams Meadow at Golden Gate Park to catch a really good buzz. Expected in the comedy show lineup are tributes to both Robin Williams and Bob Saget.
According to the press release issued Wednesday, March 30, now that pot is legal for any adult in California, whether you have a prescription or not, “cannabis and cannabis-based products – including local equity products – will be available for sale for the first time at Hippie Hill.”
Pending approval of the permit application, which is expected to go through.
One of the high points to the festival are more than “40 food and merchandise vendors selling everything from vegan rolls to pre-rolls at the Hippie Hill Farmers Market.”
It helps that the event is sponsored by “Weedmaps, the premier destination for cannabis consumers.”
Heavyweight talent lineup
The release notes that the talent lineup for Hippie Hill this year includes “performing artists Berner, Co-Founder and CEO of Cookies.” Also comedians Jeff Ross and Eshu Tune (aka Hannibal Buress). DJ Dojah will be spinning the tunes too.
The big heavyweight celebrity will be Mike Tyson, “former heavyweight champion and owner of cannabis brand, Tyson 2.0,” which features gummy edibles shaped infamously like an ear.
The festival will kick off in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and organizers note that “Hippie Hill is found on the eastern end of Golden Gate Park, between the Conservatory of Flowers and Haight Street.”
The only bummer is that “all attendees are required to show proof of vaccination or a negative test result taken within 48 hours.”
Legal or not, the 420 celebration at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park is a San Francisco tradition going back decades. That was where the famous Summer of Love started a movement and influenced the “overall counterculture of the 60s & 70s.”
When not locked down by covid, “each year on the 20th of April, tens of thousands come together on the hill to celebrate Cannabis and all its glory.“
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