{"id":32713,"date":"2017-05-08T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/20\/april-20-cannabis-day-the-columbine-massacre-and-hitlers-birthday\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T14:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:16:11","slug":"april-20-cannabis-day-the-columbine-massacre-and-hitlers-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/32713","title":{"rendered":"April 20: Cannabis Day, the Columbine massacre, and Hitler’s&nbsp;birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScottyGergelis\/status\/193097593558024192\n<p>Today potheads all over the country (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/04\/19\/marijuana-activists-suing_n_1438421.html\">except students at the University of Colorado, Boulder<\/a>) will joyfully light up a joint to celebrate National Weed Day.&nbsp;But this day isn’t just about marijuana. It’s also the 13th anniversary of the Columbine massacre and the birthday of Adolf Hitler. Naturally, Twitter had much to say about all three events:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Happy420?src=hash\">#Happy420<\/a> to all my fellow stoners!!! Stay positive love life and smoke good!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SALUTE?src=hash\">#SALUTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Masspike Miles  (@MasspikeMiles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MasspikeMiles\/status\/193212293578891264\">April 20, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/strpljenspasen\/status\/193252185587458048\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/strpljenspasen\/status\/193252185587458048<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Today is Hitler&#039;s Birthday… What do you get the man who has killed everyone?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Al Del Bene (@AlDelBene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlDelBene\/status\/193235550986174464\">April 20, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p>It&#039;s Hitler&#039;s birthday. Or, as Mel Gibson calls it, &quot;Christmas&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Anstey (@Dan_Anstey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dan_Anstey\/status\/193248807180451840\">April 20, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p>The woman in Safeway&#039;s bakery department sounded really weird on the phone after I ordered a &quot;Happy Birthday Hitler&quot; cake.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Stadler (@Nickadoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nickadoo\/status\/193220526125223936\">April 20, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Predictably, no one is happier today than <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/20\/wiz-khalifa-celebrates-national-weed-day\/\">rapper Wiz Khalifa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Some disturbed Twitter users <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/20\/disturbing-on-columbine-anniversary-some-pay-tribute-to-eric-harris-and-dylan-klebold\/\">are paying tribute to the Columbine killers<\/a>.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/20\/april-20-cannabis-day-the-columbine-massacre-and-hitlers-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/20\/april-20-cannabis-day-the-columbine-massacre-and-hitlers-birthday\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScottyGergelis\/status\/193097593558024192 Today potheads all over the country (except students at the University of Colorado, Boulder) will joyfully light up a joint to celebrate National Weed Day.&nbsp;But this day isn’t just about marijuana. It’s also the 13th anniversary of the Columbine massacre and the birthday of Adolf Hitler. Naturally, Twitter had much to say about all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/32713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 20: Cannabis Day, the Columbine massacre, and Hitler’s&nbsp;birthday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}