You would have thought all the celebration on the University of Vermont campus Monday afternoon was to ring in the New Year. Instead, hundreds of students at UVM were counting the minutes to something else.To them, April 20 or ‘4/20’ is not just a reason to light up but to signal the nearing end of another school year. Students at UVM treat 4/20 as an official holiday on campus.”Finals are coming up. Its really a big energy push celebration right before we get hunkered down for studying and stuff” said freshman Brendan.Decades ago, it started as a protest to legalize recreational cannabis use, before becoming a tradition to bend the rules. Rules that were set in stone by the university. It may be legal to possess cannabis in Vermont, but it is still illegal on the federal level, and UVM is a public university that receives federal dollars, so smoking cannabis on campus is prohibited. Campus police could be seen monitoring the festivities and its unclear if they cited any students for smoking in public on Monday.But the risk of a conduct violation did not appear to stop these students from using it as an excuse to leave classes and homework behind in a puff of smoke.
You would have thought all the celebration on the University of Vermont campus Monday afternoon was to ring in the New Year. Instead, hundreds of students at UVM were counting the minutes to something else.
To them, April 20 or ‘4/20’ is not just a reason to light up but to signal the nearing end of another school year. Students at UVM treat 4/20 as an official holiday on campus.
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“Finals are coming up. Its really a big energy push celebration right before we get hunkered down for studying and stuff” said freshman Brendan.
Decades ago, it started as a protest to legalize recreational cannabis use, before becoming a tradition to bend the rules. Rules that were set in stone by the university. It may be legal to possess cannabis in Vermont, but it is still illegal on the federal level, and UVM is a public university that receives federal dollars, so smoking cannabis on campus is prohibited. Campus police could be seen monitoring the festivities and its unclear if they cited any students for smoking in public on Monday.
But the risk of a conduct violation did not appear to stop these students from using it as an excuse to leave classes and homework behind in a puff of smoke.
