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San Francisco park workers and volunteers spent much of Sunday picking up and hauling away 10,000 pounds of garbage strewn all over the eastern part of Golden Gate Park known as Hippie Hill, the remnants of Saturday's annual yet unofficial pot-smoking bacchanalia. Even by early Sunday afternoon, mounds of empty bags of chips, candy wrappers, snack containers, plastic cups, bottles and other debris still remained to be picked up, the fallout of what appeared to an enormous, collective case of the munchies. The April 20 countercultural event supposedly has its roots in the early 1970s in San Rafael, where a group of pot-smoking teenagers used to gather and get high at a designated meeting spot at 4:20 p.m. Now various unofficial 420 celebrations are held throughout North America. Despite the large number of people city officials know will gather every year on April 20, the city does not provide any additional garbage cans or portable toilets for the event. "Permitted events are well organized and planned much in advance with multiple city agencies to ensure public safety and patron enjoyment," Chan said. Source Main page (current trends)
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