CHICAGO — One crucial new element will be added Thursday in Chicago to public celebrations of 420, marijuana’s unofficial holiday: smoke.
Cannabis has been legal in Illinois since 2020, but consumption in public remains illegal. Now, companies are finding ways around that ban by providing buses and other private areas for invited or ticketed customers to partake.
The trend is peaking just in time for April 20, a day when users celebrate their common interest — “420″ was said to be popularized as slang for weed by a group of California high schoolers who met at 4:20 p.m. to get high.
