Smoke-in

A smoke-in is a protest in favor of cannabis rights or more specifically legalization of cannabis.^[1]

Yippie van makes a few passes by the July 4th Smoke-In, Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., 1977.

The Youth International Party (YIP) organized "smoke-ins" across North America through the 1970s and into the 1980s. The first YIP smoke-in was attended by 25,000 in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 1970.^[2][3] There was a culture clash when many of the hippie protesters strolled en masse into the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope.^[4]

On August 7, 1971, a Yippie smoke-in in Vancouver was attacked by police, resulting in the Gastown Riot, one of the most famous protests in Canadian history.^[5]

The annual July 4 Yippie smoke-in in Washington, D.C., became a counterculture tradition.^[6][7][8][9] Other smoke-ins as protests for cannabis law reform have been held in the 1960s in London;^[10] and through the 1990s at least at the U.S. Capitol,^[11] and in and around Austin, Texas.^[12][13]

Poster advertising Yippie-sponsored Pittsburgh Smoke-In, Schenley Park, July 2, 1977

See also

• 420 (cannabis culture)

References

1. "smoke-in", Merriam-Webster Dictionary online, retrieved March 29, 2022
2. Viola, Saira. "Dana Beal Interview". International Times. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
3. New Yippie Book Collective 1983.
4. A. Yippie. "A Brief History of the NYC Cannabis Parade". CannabisParade.org. Archived from the original on October 10, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
5. Odam, Jes, "Police charge yippie plot," Vancouver Sun, 1 October 1971
6. DeAngelo 2015.
7. Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins (August 2003). Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1888451443. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
8. Martin Weil, Keith B. Richberg (5 July 1978). "Demonstration By Yippies Is Mostly Quiet". Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
9. Harris, Art (4 July 1979). "Yippies Turn On". Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 16, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
10. DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT (July 17, 1967). "BRITISH 'SMOKE-IN' PUFFS MARIJUANA: 'Flower People' in Hyde Park Chant Case for Legality". The New York Times. p. 9.
11. "Marijuana supporters hold smoke-in protest". Kitchener - Waterloo Record. Kitchener, Ontario. July 16, 1992.
12. "Marijuana 'smoke-in' may be smoke screen", Austin American Statesman, p. B2, May 23, 1990
13. MacCormack, John (July 2, 1993). "Marijuana-law protest sprouts outside Hays jail". San Antonio Express-News. San Antonio, Texas. p. 10D. [He] was among seven local residents who staged dope smoke-ins at local police stations in 1991 to protest the criminalization of marijuana.

Sources

• The New Yippie Book Collective, ed. (1983). Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984. Bleecker Publishing. p. 4. OCLC 10458470.
• DeAngelo, Steve (2015). The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness. Berkeley, CA, USA: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1583949375. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved October 16, 2020.

External links

The dictionary definition of smoke-in at Wiktionary