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(April 20)\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eHEADLINE Colorado school''s stinky steps against 4/20CAPTION: The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 was replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHEADLINE Colorado school''s stinky steps against 4/20\u003cbr/\u003eCAPTION: The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 was replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday. (April 20)\u003cbr/\u003e[Location - Date:Boulder Colorado - April 20]\u003cbr/\u003e[Source:AP]\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE philosophy student Julian Hirschbaum at the quad. \u003cbr/\u003e\"So it smells like somebody cut up a bunch of fish and basically spread it all over Norlin Quad, and then watered it.''''\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: Bronson Hilliard, CU spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"You know, to be very candid, the goal of all of this was to make it, you know, kind of an unpleasant experience to be here today for anyone who planned to come for 4/20.''''\u003cbr/\u003eHirschbaum: ````I mean, it''s pretty gross. It''s a, I think a tactic meant to keep all the people from getting on the grass and it''s, I mean, it disrupts a lot of people who won''t otherwise would be disrupted by this event.''''\u003cbr/\u003esoundbite Cynthia Hardey, library technician at Norlin Library.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the reaction, it''s totally overreacting because the event would go by largely unnoticed by most of us. I work at the library right on the quad. You know, I go home, they got the pot in the air, big deal, you know, next day everything is forgotten, so now they''re making a big thing about it and this is going down in history, so we''re having a police state tactics here for what, cause a couple of people want to protest the laws, these pot laws? I don''t get it.''''\u003cbr/\u003eBOULDER, Colo. (AP) _ The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 was replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday as administrators tried to stamp out one of the nation''s largest annual campus celebrations of marijuana.\u003cbr/\u003e   After more than 10,000 people _ students and non-students _ attended last year''s marijuana rally on Norlin Quadrangle, university officials this year applied the stinky fertilizer to the quad to deter pot-smokers. \u003cbr/\u003e   They also closed the campus Friday to all unauthorized visitors and were offering a free campus concert by Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean timed to coincide with the traditional 4:20 p.m. pot gathering. His contract bars him from making any direct references to marijuana, other drugs or to 4/20.\u003cbr/\u003e   The measures pit Colorado''s flagship university, which has tired of its reputation as a top party school, against thousands who have assembled, flash mob-style, each year to demand marijuana''s legalization or simply to have a good time.\u003cbr/\u003e   With more than 30,000 students, Colorado was named the nation''s top party school in 2011 by Playboy magazine. The campus also repeatedly ranks among the top schools for marijuana use, according to a \"Reefer Madness\" list conducted by The Princeton Review.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"We don''t consider this a protest. We consider this people smoking pot in the sunshine,\" said university spokesman Bronson Hilliard. \"This is a gathering of people engaging in an illegal activity.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I do not see any justification for the university shutting it down,\" said student organizer Daniel Ellis Schwartz, who contends the measures infringe on First Amendment rights to protest. Schwartz, a physics major, and other supporters of the 4/20 smoke out plan to move it to a nearby park off-campus. He suggests there also will be some form of off-campus protest against the measures.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"We do have to play a game of chess with the authorities,\" Schwartz said.\u003cbr/\u003e   Cynthia Hardey, who works in the library on the quad, said she thinks the university was overreacting and that the event would go by largely unnoticed if not for the crackdown.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"You know, I go home, they got the pot in the air, big deal. Next day everything is forgotten. But now they''re making a big thing about it, and this is going down in history. So we''re having police state tactics here for what? Because a couple of people want to protest the laws, these pot laws? I don''t get it,\" said Hardey, a library technician.\u003cbr/\u003e   Hilliard expressed admiration Friday for the fertilizer''s odiferous impact.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"We''re able to enrich the grounds here, which are lovely, and then we can also create an extra deterrent for people to show up today,\" he said. \"You know, to be very candid, the goal of all of this was to make it kind of an unpleasant experience to be here today for anyone who planned to come for 4/20.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Many students at the University of Colorado and other campuses across the country have long observed 4/20. The counterculture observation is shared by marijuana users from San Francisco''s Golden Gate Park to New York''s Greenwich Village.\u003cbr/\u003e   In Austin, Texas, country music legend Willie Nelson, who''s open about his marijuana use, was expected to help unveil an 8-foot statue of himself in downtown Austin at 4:20 p.m. local time on Friday. In Southern California, the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds will host \"The 420 Festival\" with bands and disc jockeys on Saturday. \u003cbr/\u003e   The number 420 has been associated with marijuana use for decades, though its origins are murky. Its use as code for marijuana spread among California pot users in the 1960s and spread nationwide among followers of the Grateful Dead.\u003cbr/\u003e   Like most counterculture slang, theories abound on its origin. Some say it was once police code in Southern California to denote marijuana use (probably an urban legend). It was a title number for a 2003 California bill about medical marijuana, an irony fully intended.\u003cbr/\u003e   Others trace it to a group of California teenagers who would meet at 4:20 p.m. to search for weed (a theory as elusive as the outdoor cannabis crop they were seeking). Yet the code stuck for obvious reasons: Authorities and nosy parents didn''t know what it meant.\u003cbr/\u003e   In Colorado, recent 4/20 observations have blossomed alongside the state''s medical marijuana industry. Approved by Colorado voters in 2000, medical marijuana boomed after federal authorities signaled in 2009 they would pursue higher-level drug crimes. All marijuana is illegal under federal law, though Colorado voters this November will consider a ballot measure to legalize it for recreational use by adults over 21.\u003cbr/\u003e   People began gathering for a larger rally near the state capitol in Denver on Friday and Saturday. Police say they''re taking a hands-off approach to the gathering, which could draw tens of thousands of people, said chief organizer Miguel Lopez. \u003cbr/\u003e   Organizers planned to entertain the Denver revelers with musical performances and contests for joint rolling and best varieties of pot.\u003cbr/\u003e   Others are rebelling against the gatherings.\u003cbr/\u003e   In Colorado, several high schools across the state are hosting drug-free events on Friday. The University of Colorado''s student government supports the university''s anti-4/20 actions this year. And other Colorado students created a Facebook campaign urging their colleagues to wear formal clothing to school on Friday to repudiate the party-school reputation.\u003cbr/\u003e   At dawn, campus police officers positioned themselves at school entrances, allowing in only those with university IDs or permission. They also posted \"no trespassing\" signs on utility poles. Anyone on campus without proper ID could be ticketed for trespassing, which carries a maximum $750 fine and up to six months in jail, said campus police spokesman Ryan Huff. By mid-day, no one had been ticketed, Huff said.\u003cbr/\u003e   Anyone caught smoking on campus will be ticketed, just as they would any other day, Huff said. That includes anyone with a medical marijuana card, which requires that consumption be in private.\u003cbr/\u003e   As ground crews applied the fertilizer early Friday, philosophy major Julian Hirschbaum said it smelled like \"somebody cut up a bunch of fish\" and watered it.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"It''s pretty gross,\" he said. \"I mean, it disrupts a lot of people who wouldn''t otherwise be disrupted by this event.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Off campus, Boulder police could also issue tickets for people smoking pot, and the Colorado State Patrol will be watching for any motorists under the influence, Huff said.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"This is not about the war on drugs. 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